Kaskowitz, Sheryl
Summary: "In 1934, the Great Depression had destroyed the US economy, leaving residents poverty-stricken. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt urged President Roosevelt to take radical action to help those hit hardest-Appalachian miners and mill workers stranded after factories closed, city dwellers with no hope of getting work, farmers whose land had failed. They set up government homesteads in rural areas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.917 KASMarcus, Greil
Summary: "Across seven decades, Bob Dylan has been the first singer of American song. As a writer and performer, he has rewritten the national songbook in a way that comes from his own vision and yet can feel as if it belongs to anyone who might listen. In Folk Music, Greil Marcus tells Dylan's story through seven of his most transformative songs. Marcus's point of departure is Dylan's ability to "see...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DYLAN, BOB MARGuarino, Mark
Summary: "Chicago is recognized around the world for its place in the history of jazz, gospel, and the blues. Far less known is the surprisingly important role Chicago played in country music and the folk revival. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and deep archival research, Mark Guarino tells a forgotten story of music in Chicago and reveals how the city's institutions and personalities influenced...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 GUASummary: A cinematic synthesis of four Newport folk Festivals that depicts the crucial years of transition for the art of folk music 1963-1966.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Eagle Rock Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC FESSummary: Neither a conventional biopic nor a traditional concert film, this documentary is a raw and intimate portrait of the legendary folk singer and activist that shifts back and forth through time as it follows Joan on her final tour and delves into her extraordinary archive, including newly discovered home movies, diaries, artwork, therapy tapes, and audio recordings. Baez is remarkably revealing...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC JOASeeger, Pete
Summary: "In this new book, we hear directly from the artist through the widest array of sources--letters, notes to himself, published articles, rough drafts, stories, and poetry--creating the most detailed picture available of Seeger as a musician, an activist, and a family man, in his own words and from his own perspective... The portrait that emerges is not a saint, not a martyr, but a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paradigm Publishers 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SEEGER, PETE SEEBaez, Joan
Summary: Chronicles the fifty-year career of singer and activist Baez with interviews and previously unseen performances.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Razor & Tie 2009
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC JOAFormat: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "We asked musiciains to cut a 78 record of an old song using one microphone, one blank lacquer disc and one 1930s PRESTO disc recorder... anywhere they chose... in one take.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SEVSummary: "Pete the cat learns the sounds of the different farm animals in this twist on the classic song"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DEACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Dean 2014Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Kids' Favorite Characters, Call number: JE PETWolff, Daniel J.
Summary: A tour de force of storytelling years in the making: a dual biography of two of the greatest songwriters, Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie, that is also a murder mystery and a history of labor relations and socialism, big business and greed in twentieth-century America—woven together in one epic saga that holds meaning for all working Americans today.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.5 WOLBeck, Earl Clifton
Contents: Alphabet song -- Bebe hung one on us -- The big Eau Claire -- Bold Jack Donahue -- Bung yer eye -- Camp Seven song -- Camp 13 on the Manistee -- Chance McGear -- The curst wife -- The death of Harry Bradford -- Don't come to Michigan -- Down by the wild Mustard River -- Drill ye terriers -- Driving logs on the Cass -- The dying hoopmaker -- The East Jordan Line -- The fate of the "Cumberland"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 1956
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 784.6 BEC1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 784 BEC