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African Americans Music African Americans Music History and criticism MUSIC / History & Criticism Pomus, Doc 1925-1991 Popular music Popular music United States History Popular music United States History and criticism Sound recording industry Sound recording industry United States History United StatesQuestlove
Summary: Bestselling author and Sundance award-winning director Questlove harnesses his encyclopedic knowledge of popular music and his deep curiosity about history to examine America over the past fifty years. Choosing one essential track from each year, Questlove unpacks each song's significance, revealing the pivotal role that American music plays around issues of race, gender, politics, and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 782.42 QUESummary: As seen on Public Television, legendary musical artists return to the stage to perform some of the biggest songs from the 1960s and 1970s in American Pop Flashback! Hosted by Micky Dolenz of The Monkees, this special event features beloved performers including Bill Medley of The Righteous Brothers, Lesley Gore, Glen Campbell, The Chiffons, Boby Vinton, Paul Revere & The Raiders, Chris Montez,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: A comprehensive examination of Jewish influence and participation in the American popular music business, that weaves together cultural, political, musical and economic history.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nardis Books, an imprint of Unlimited Media Ltd. 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780 SIDSummary: The big bang: At the height of the Roaring Twenties, music scouts armed with cutting-edge recording technology set out across America to capture the unsung voices of everyday folk. Blood and soil: America's poor--cotton field slaves, mine workers, sharecroppers--find freedom through music, creating gospel, protest songs, and Delta blues. Out of the many, the one: Exotic cultures spanning...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV AMEMedley, Bill.
Contents: Orange County graffiti -- The Paramours -- The rendezvous ballroom -- The double-whammy -- The Beatles -- Shindig -- The Cow Palace -- We're, uh, I'm off to New York -- Riding the wave -- The green light from Sinatra -- That's the B-side -- Soul and inspiration -- Sweet Karen -- The "new" Righteous Brothers -- I can't make it alone -- Hey Jude -- Elvis -- No voice, no choice -- The second time...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MEDLEY, BILL MEDStanley, Bob
Summary: "Pop music didn't begin with the Beatles in 1963, or with Elvis in 1956, or even with the first seven-inch singles in 1949. There was a pre-history that went back to the first recorded music, right back to the turn of the century. Who were these earliest record stars--and were they in any meaningful way "pop stars"? Who was George Gershwin writing songs for? Why did swing, the hit sound for a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 781.6409 STASummary: Doc's story is brought to life through interviews with a colorful array of celebrated musicians, family members, writers, and fans; a vast collection of never-before-seen archival photos and footage, including captivating filmed and audio-taped interviews with Doc; and above all the brilliant, jubilant, and evocative music Doc performed, wrote, and inspired.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC AKAQuestlove
Summary: Music Is History combines Questlove's deep musical expertise with his curiosity about history, examining America over the past fifty years.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Image 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 QUECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B QUESTLOVE QUESuskin, Steven
Summary: "A carefully curated, cheerfully opinionated guidebook surveying 201 of the most significant selections from the Great American Songbook, ranging from celebrated masterpieces to forgotten gems"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Backbeat Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 SUSBaez, 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 JOAConners, Peter H.
Summary: Draws on interviews with some of the most recognizable names in the jam band scene to trace the genre's origins and evolution, offering insight into key musical influences, songwriting styles, and tour experiences.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books Group 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.64 CONCogan, Jim.
Summary: All great music has a birthplace. This book tells the stories of the legendary studios where musical genius and a magical space came together to capture some of the most exciting jazz, pop, funk, soul, and country records ever made. From the celebrated Southern studios of Sun and Stax, to the John Coltrane/Miles Davis sessions in producer Rudy Van Gelder's living room, to Frank Sinatra's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.6414 COGRachlin, Harvey
Summary: "Growing in tandem with each other, pop music and the business of creating and distributing it have become a relationship that defines modern cultural history. This book not only charts the music that we all know and love but also reveals our active participation in its development throughout generations"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.64 RACKallen, Stuart A.
Summary: Explores the history of American pop music and features the famous acts associated with each stage, including Scott Joplin, Hank Williams, the Carpenters, and Justin Bieber.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lucent Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 781.640973 KALPhinney, Kevin.
Summary: "... a comprehensive look at race relations in the United States as seen through the prism of music from slavery to the present"--Jacket.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Billboard Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 780.89 PHIShort, Marion.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Schiffer Pub. 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.64 SHOSmith, Danyel
Summary: "From one of the preeminent cultural critics of her generation, a radiant weave of memoir, criticism, and biography that tells the story of black women in music--from the Dixie Cups to Gladys Knight to Janet, Whitney, and Mariah-- as the foundational story of American pop"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roc Lit 101, One World 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 SMIContents: Jingle bell rock (Bobby Helms) (2:08) -- Run, Rudolph, run (Chuck Berry) (2:43) -- Merry Christmas baby (Otis Redding) (2:29) -- Go tell it on the mountain (Smokey Robinson and the Miracles) (3:40) -- My favorite things (The Supremes) (2:45) -- White Christmas (The Drifters) (2:35) -- The man with all the toys (The Beach Boys) (1:30) -- Jingle bells (Booker T. and the MG's) (2:27) -- Rudolph...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Music 1987
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1 available in Sight and Sound Holiday Display, Call number: CD HOL JINMcNally, Dennis.
Summary: "On Highway 61 explores the historical context of the significant social dissent that was central to the cultural genesis of the sixties. The book is going to search for the deeper roots of American cultural and musical evolution for the past 150 years by studying what the Western European culture learned from African American culture in a historical progression that reaches from the minstrel...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Music McNallyWald, Elijah.
Summary: How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll rejects the conventional pieties of mainstream jazz and rock history. Rather than concentrating on those traditionally favored styles, the book traces the evolution of popular music through developing tastes, trends and technologies--including the role of records, radio, jukeboxes and television--to give a fuller, more balanced account of the broad...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.64 WALBorgerson, 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"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Entertain BorgersonZaleski, 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"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024