Summary: Johanna Morrigan is a bright, quirky, sixteen-year-old who uses her colorful imagination to regularly escape her humdrum life in Wolverhampton and live out her creative fantasies. Desperate to break free from the overcrowded flat she shares with her four brothers and eccentric parents, she submits an earnestly penned and off-beat music review to a group of self-important indie rock critics at a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOWSummary: A famous pianist struggling with stage fright late in his career finds inspiration with a free-spirited music critic.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.DeRogatis, Jim.
Summary: "Let It Blurt is the biography of Lester Bangs (1949-82) - the gonzo journalist, gutter poet, and romantic visionary of rock criticism. He lived the rock 'n' roll lifestyle, guzzling booze and Romilar like water, matching its energy in prose that erupted from the pages of Rolling Stone, Creem, and The Village Voice. Bangs agitated in the seventies for sounds that were harsher, louder, more...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BANGS, LESTER DERSheffield, Rob.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Pub. 2007
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Summary: Presents a collection of letters exchanged over the course of four decades between poet Langston Hughes and his mentor, Carl Van Vechten, offering an incisive look at current events and issues.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.5209 HUGKleinzahler, August.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 KLEEddy, Chuck.
Summary: "Chuck Eddy is one of the most entertaining, idiosyncratic, influential, and prolific music critics of the past three decades...Rock and Roll Always Forgets features the best, most provocative reviews, interviews, columns, and essays written by this singular critic."--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Duke University Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.64 EDDRyan, Jack.
Summary: Includes updates on many of the performers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Glendower Media LLC 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.5 RYALundgren, Eric
Summary: When his opera-singing wife goes missing, Sven Norberg must search the underworld of the declining Midwestern city of Trude, where he encounters a cop called the Oracle, shifty music critics, rebellious librarians, and cult-like church members who have recruited his son.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LUNSummary: Exene Cervenka, John Doe, Billy Zoom and D.J. Bonebrake comprise the L.A. rock group X. During the late 1970's through early 1980's, X was one of the leaders of the underground revolutionary music scene in Los Angeles. Their originality garnered praise from music critics, locally and nationally, but a mainstream following eluded them. This video, which is part documentary, music video and rock...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image entertainment 1987
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC XSummary: "From rock's backpages, the online library of rock and roll. Comes this anthology of timeless rock writing from the good to the bad to the plain ugly. The sound and the fury spans four decades and comes at rock and roll from all angles, among the pieces ..."--BOOK JACKET.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780 SOUSummary: Throughout history, musicians and musical works have reflected the fashion, culture, and social attitudes of their times. Music today is more diversified than ever, from the megahits of teen pop stars to the depth and emotionality of gospel choirs to the tones and textures produced by large-scale orchestras. Add to this the unstoppable forces of MySpace, YouTube, the iPod, and a rapidly...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009