Summary: Celebrate the vibrant jazz, R&B, and soul music of African American artists who, during segregation, created the foundation of modern American music. Like many other Black Americans, they relied on Victor Hugo Green's Negro Travelers' Green Book, a directory of lodgings, restaurants, and entertainment venues where African Americans were safe and welcomed. Now explore the history of this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MUSCave, Nick
Summary: The Sick Bag Song began life scribbled on paper airlinesick bags during Cave’s 2014 tour. It soon grew into a restless full-length contemporary odyssey. Spurred by encounters with modern-day North America, beset by longing and exhaustion, Cave teases out the significant moments, the people, the books, and the music that have influenced him. Drawing inspiration from Leonard Cohen, John...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CAVE, NICK CAVSummary: The fact that John Lurie knows nothing about fishing doesn't stop him from taking his celebrity guests to exotic fishing locales for fishing and conversation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 1999
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FISVoris, Jenna
Summary: "Seventeen-year-old aspiring journalist Darren Purchase has been a lifelong fan of country music legend Decklee Cassel, who's as famous for her classic hits as she is for her partnership with songwriter Mickenlee Hooper. The same Mickenlee who mysteriously backed out of the limelight at the height of their careers, never to be heard from again. Now Decklee's televised funeral marks the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC VOREdwards, Selden.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EDWKrause, Bernard L.
Summary: A musician and naturalist describes how the noise of humans is drowning out the sounds of nature and paints a picture of the relationship and connection between natural sounds and music that is becoming increasingly difficult to hear.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780 KRASummary: When aspiring rapper Sol is discovered by a group of gen-Z musicians at a party, he joins their tour through the heart of Texas and embarks on a once-in-a-lifetime adventure. Leaving behind his best friend Wesley and the surrogate family who embraced him, Sol contemplates the meaning of home. As Sol and the musicians travel across Texas, they bond over their shared pains and longings. Vibrant...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024