Summary: This film presents, in documentary format, a glimpse of contemporary Gypsy life as expressed in a variety of musical settings. Scenes and music from Gypsy cultures in India, Egypt, Turkey, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia and Spain. CNN report and interview with Tony Gatlif included.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Madman Films 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LATJohn, Elton.
Summary: 17 of Elton's very best, including: Bennie and the Jets * Candle in the Wind * Goodbye Yellow Brick Road * I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues * Rocket Man (I Think It's Gonna Be a Long Long Time) * Tiny Dancer * Your Song * and more.
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Hal Leonard Pub. 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 784.54 JOHSummary: "The Girl Group Sound, made famous and unforgettable by acts like The Ronettes, The Shirelles, The Supremes, and The Vandellas, took over the airwaves by capturing the mix of innocence and rebellion emblematic of America in the 1960s. As songs like "Will You Love Me Tomorrow," "Then He Kissed Me," and "Be My Baby" rose to number one, Girl Groups cornered the burgeoning post-war market of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 BUTFaber, Michel
Summary: An enlightening, thoughtful and witty exploration into how and why we listen to music, from the award-winning author Michel Faber. 'I'm not here to change your mind about Dusty Springfield or Shostakovich or Tupac Shakur or synthpop. I'm here to change your mind about your mind.' There are countless books on music with much analysis given to musicians, bands, eras and/or genres. But rarely does...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2023
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Summary: "Steve Reich is a living legend in the world of contemporary classical music. As a leader of the minimalist movement in the 1960s, his works have become central to the musical landscape worldwide, influencing generations of younger musicians, choreographers and visual artists. He has explored non-Western music and American vernacular music from jazz to rock, as well as groundbreaking music and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.92 REIRowell, David
Summary: Combines personal memoir, on-the-ground reporting, industry research, and cultural criticism to argue that commercial and cultural forces have laid waste to the cultural ecosystems that have produced decades of great American music. From the scorched-earth demonetizing of artist revenue accomplished by Spotify and its ilk to the rise of dead artists "touring" via hologram, Rowell examines how a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 781.64 ROWSummary: "When does art become obscenity? From poignant protest songs to fluffy Top 40 hits, music has always defined our culture. This film looks at how the censorship of music has shaped how we view art, how it's made and who we are as consumers."--Imdb.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC COVSummary: In his acclaimed debut as a filmmaker, Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson presents a powerful and transporting documentary, part music film, part historical record, created around an epic event that celebrated Black history, culture, and fashion. Over the course of six weeks in the summer of 1969, just one hundred miles south of Woodstock, The Harlem Cultural Festival was filmed in Mount Morris Park...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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3 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC SUMLevitin, Daniel J.
Summary: "Neuroscientist and New York Times bestselling author of This Is Your Brain on Music Daniel J. Levitin reveals how the deep connections between music and the human brain can be harnessed for healing. Music is perhaps one of humanity's oldest medicines as well as its most universal: from China to the Ottoman Empire, Europe to Africa and pre-colonial South America, cultures have developed rich...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton and Company 2024
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Summary: "David Suisman shows that the US military has a deep and multilayered investment in music. It employs thousands of musicians, whose music creates communal norms and identities. Music also helps soldiers to grapple with the realities of combat, while serving as a weapon in its own right, at places like Guantánamo Bay. Suisman calls music 'a lubricant in the gears of the American war machine,'...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 781.5 SUISummary: This volume features 40 Fab Four hits, All You Need Is Love * Blackbird * Can't Buy Me Love * Eleanor Rigby * Here Comes the Sun * Hey Jude * I Want to Hold Your Hand * Let It Be * Penny Lane * Twist and Shout * Yesterday * and more. The songs in this collection have been specially arranged for really easy piano with chords and lyrics. Each song includes background notes as well as handy hints...
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Hal Leonard 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 BEASummary: A collection of Bruce Springsteen's music videos from 1978 to 2000, covering his albums Darkness on the Edge of Town (1978), The River (1980), Nebraska (1982), Born in the USA (1984), Tunnel of Love (1987), Human Touch (1992), Lucky Town (1992), and The Ghost of Tom Joad (1995), as well as his many soundtrack appearances in the late 1990's.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Music Video 2001
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC BRUBergsman, Steve
Summary: "In What a Difference a Day Makes: Women Who Conquered 1950s Music, Steve Bergsman highlights the Black female artists of the 1950s, a time that predated the chart-topping girl groups of the early 1960s. Many of the singers of this era became wildly famous and respected, and even made it into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame. However, there were many others, such as Margie Day, Helen Humes,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Mississippi 2023
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Summary: Delve into the largely overlooked footprint that Black punks have on the underground music scene in a new archival publication brought to you by Raeghan Buchanan and Silver Sprocket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Silver Sprocket 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This one-of-a-kind collection arranged by Fred Sokolow features accessible, must-know songs for anyone ready to start playing lap steel guitar. Each song is presented in a combination of tab, standard notation, chords, and lyrics for the most popular songs lap steel players like to play. This collection features songs in several tunings, including open G, open E and C6, in these genres:...
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Hal Leonard 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 787.6 FIRSummary: It's a fast-paced, all-star reunion that spotlights performances by the biggest acts ever to come out of Detroit, including vintage footage of the groups from the Sixties and Seventies, a look behind the scenes at the songwriters who brought the Motown sound to fame, and a moving tribute to the man who started it all, Barry Gordy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC MOTFaber, Nancy
Contents: I, IV, and V7 chord review (C, F, G) -- I, IV, and V7 chords in D major -- Amazing grace (trad.) C, G, and F scale review -- Campbells are coming (trad.) -- Cool walkin' bass / Faber and Faber -- Cossack ride / N. Faber -- Echoes of the harp -- Eine kleine Nachtmusik / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Ice dancing / Ferdinand Beyer -- Joshua fought the Battle of Jericho (trad.) -- Land of the silver...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1998
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Summary: Seventeen of the greatest songs ever performed by the Grateful Dead. Our one-of-a-kind album-matching folio includes multiple pages of color photos featuring the Grateful Dead in performance and a few candid shots spanning more than two decades.
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Publications 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 784.54 GRASheffield, Rob
Summary: "A cultural phenomenon. A worldwide obsession. An agent of emotional chaos. There's no parallel to Taylor Swift in history: a teenage girl who turns into the world's favorite pop star, songwriter, storyteller, guitar hero, live performer, changing how music is made and heard. ... Rob Sheffield, the ... author of Dreaming the Beatles, On Bowie, and Love Is a Mix Tape ... has chronicled Taylor...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Rolling Stone magazine is the definitive source for music and pop culture trends. In addition, find culture and social commentary on current news and events in each issue of Rolling Stone magazine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Straight Arrow Publishers 1967
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Simon, Paul
Contents: At the zoo -- The Big bright green pleasure machine -- Cloudy -- The 59th Street Bridge song (Feeling' groovy) -- For Emily, whenever I may find her -- A Hazy shade of winter -- I wish you could be here -- Patterns -- A Poem on the underground wall -- Scarborough fair/Canticle -- Someday, one day -- Wednesday morning, 3 a.m. -- You don't know where your interest lies.
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Charing Cross Music 1967
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 784.8 SIMSpooner, James
Summary: "Scene: Apple Valley, California, in the late eighties, a thirsty, miserable desert. Teenage James Spooner hates that he and his mom are back in town after years away. The few Black kids here seem to be gangbanging, and the other kids fall on a spectrum of microaggressors to future neo-Nazis. Mixed-race and acutely aware of his Blackness, James doesn't know where he fits until he meets Ty, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 SPOSummary: A celebration of an artist's life in the purest sense, Ryuichi Sakamoto Opus is the swan song of one of the world's greatest musicians. As a parting gift, just months before his death in 2023, Sakamoto mustered all of his energy to leave us with one final performance: a concert film featuring just him and a piano, directed by his son, Neo Sora. Curated and sequenced by Sakamoto himself, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY MUSIC RYUHarvilla, Rob
Summary: "A companion to the #1 music podcast on Spotify, 60 SONGS THAT EXPLAIN THE '90s takes readers through the greatest hits that define a weirdly undefinable decade. The 1990s were a chaotic and gritty and utterly magical time for music, a confounding barrage of genres and lifestyles and superstars, from grunge to hip-hop, from sumptuous RB to rambunctious ska-punk, from Axl to Kurt to Missy to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2023