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Kaye, Lenny

Summary: Memphis, 1954. New Orleans 1957. Philadelphia 1959. Liverpool, 1962. San Francisco 1967. Detroit 1969. New York, 1975. London 1977. Los Angeles 1984 / Norway 1993. Seattle 1991. Rock and roll was birthed in basements and garages, radio stations and dance halls, in cities where unexpected gatherings of artists and audience changed and charged the way music is heard and celebrated, capturing...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.6609 KAY

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 781.6609 KAY

Lynskey, Dorian.

Summary: A history of protest music embodied in 33 songs since the 1930s.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 LYN

Bergsman, 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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Mauceri, John

Summary: "This book offers a major reassessment of classical music in the twentieth century. John Mauceri argues that the history of music during this span was shaped by three major wars of that century: World War I, World War II, and the Cold War. Probing why so few works have been added to the canon since 1930, Mauceri examines the trajectories of great composers who, following World War I, created...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.9 MAU

Miller, Karl Hagstrom

Summary: Karl Hagstrom Miller argues that the categories that we have inherited to think and talk about southern music bear little relation to the ways that southerners long played and heard music. Focusing on the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth, Miller chronicles how southern music--a fluid complex of sounds and styles in practice--was reduced to a series of distinct genres linked to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Duke University Press 2010

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Foley, Michael S.

Summary: "Johnny Cash was an American icon, known for his level bass-baritone voice and somber demeanor, for huge hits like 'Ring of Fire' and 'I Walk the Line.' He's one of the best-selling musicians of all time, and his crossover appeal earned him inductions into the Country Music, Gospel Music, and Rock and Roll Halls of Fame. But he was also the most prominent political artist in the United States,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CASH, JOHNNY FOL

Borgerson, Janet

Summary: "This book presents a visually compelling collection of vintage dance record covers from the golden age of album cover design and discusses their contribution to the story of American identity"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Entertain Borgerson

Zaleski, Annie

Summary: "Celebrate 100 of the most beloved love songs of all time with this beautiful hardcover keepsake that will make the perfect gift for loved ones at Valentine's Day or any time of year. Award-winning author and music journalist Annie Zaleski's collection offers readers fascinating history and behind-the-scenes stories about each love song's everlasting impact"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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Kurlansky, Mark.

Summary: Traces the meteoric popularity of the iconic song by Marvin Gaye, Mickey Stevenson, and Ivy Jo Hunter against a backdrop of the Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964, exploring how the song's multiple meanings rendered it an activist anthem.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.1196 KUR

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Cult Kurlansky

Streissguth, Michael

Summary: "In a dim clearing off a county road in Kentucky sits a sagging outdoor stage buried in moss and dead leaves. It used to be the centerpiece of carnival-like Sunday afternoons where local guitarists, fiddlers and mandolin players hammered out old mountain ballads while legends from the dawn of country music performed their classic hits. Most of the musicians who showed up have long since passed,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.642 STR

Rosenberg, Jonathan

Summary: "A Juilliard-trained musician and professor of history explores the fascinating entanglement of classical music with American foreign relations. Dangerous Melodies vividly evokes a time when classical music stood at the center of American life, occupying a prominent place in the nation's culture and politics. The work of renowned conductors, instrumentalists, and singers-and the activities of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.973 ROS

Bullock, Darryl W.

Summary: With the advent of recording technology, LGBT messages were for the first time brought to the forefront of popular music. Bullock covers the history of recorded music by and for the LGBT community, and shows how those records influenced the evolution of the music we listen to today. He discusses how gay, lesbian, and bisexual performers influenced jazz and blues; examines the almost forgotten...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Duckworth 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.5 BUL

Carson, David

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Publisher / Publication Date: Momentum Books 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.44 CAR

Scott, Jonathan

Summary: "In 1977, a team led by the great Carl Sagan was put together to create a record that would travel to the stars on the back of NASA's Voyager probe. They were responsible for creating a playlist of music, sounds and pictures that would represent not just humanity, but would also paint a picture of Earth for any future alien races that may come into contact with the probe. The Vinyl Frontier...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Sigma 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.266 SCO

Brenner, Michael

Summary: "In 1935, Adolf Hitler declared Munich the "Capital of the Movement." It was here that he developed his anti-Semitic beliefs and founded the Nazi party. Though Hitler's immediate milieu during the 1910s and 1920s has received ample attention, this book argues that the Munich of this period is worthy of study in its own right and that the changes the city underwent between 1918 and 1923 are...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943 BRE

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