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1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Bob Dylan is without doubt one of the three most influential and pivotal artists of the Rock age. This film goes behind the music to discover one of the defining artists of the 20th Century. Interviews from Bob Dylan's schooldays include his English teacher and the guitarist from his first schoolboy band. The film follows his progress through his rebel days in college in Minneapolis to his development in the burgeoning folk clubs of New York's Greenwich...
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viii, 520 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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"Aretha Franklin began life as the golden daughter of a progressive and promiscuous Baptist preacher. Raised without her mother, she was a gospel prodigy who gave birth to two sons in her teens and left them and her native Detroit for New York, where she struggled to find her true voice. She found fame, fortune, and that remarkable voice in 1967 with "Respect" and a rapid-fire string of hits. Aretha turned the industry on its head by refueling pop...
163) Liner notes: on parents & children, exes & excess, death & decay & a few of my other favorite things
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306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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The influential singer, songwriter, and actor shares meditative personal reflections on relationships and creativity, tracing the struggles with alcoholism, infidelity, and competitiveness that have challenged his celebrity family.
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English
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"With her arrival on the music scene in the early 1980s, Madonna generated nothing short of an explosion -- as great as that of Elvis or the Beatles -- taking the nation by storm with her liberated politics and breathtaking talent. Within two years of her 1983 debut album, a flagship Macy's store in Manhattan held a Madonna look-a-like contest featuring Andy Warhol as a judge, and opened a department called "Madonna-land." But Madonna was more than...
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xiv, 236 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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English
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"Now raising their four-year-old daughter, Indiana, alone, after Joey's passing, Rory Feek digs deeper into the soil of his life and the unusual choices he and his wife, Joey, made together and the ones he's making now to lead his family into the future. When Rory Feek and his older daughters moved into a run-down farmhouse almost twenty years ago, he had no idea of the almost fairy-tale love story that was going to unfold on that small piece of Tennessee...
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viii, 290 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : portraits (some color) ; 24 cm
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English
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In the 1970s, Marvin Gaye was the soulful prince of Motown with the seductive liquid voice; his chart-topping, socially conscious album What's Going On made him a superstar. Primarily silent since Marvin's tragic death in 1984, Jan Gaye gives a riveting cautionary tale about the ecstasy and dangers of loving him -- and a searing memoir of drugs, sex, and old school R & B. She reveals what it's like to be in love with a creative genius who transformed...
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x, 300 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm + 1 audio disc (4 3/4 in.)
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English
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The autobiography of one of the influential figures of the American folk revival of the fifties and sixties. Erik Darling was a very accomplished banjo and guitar player in groups such as the Tarriers, the Weavers, and the Rooftop Singers. He died August 3, 2008 at the age of 74.
168) Un día nuevo
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ix, 256 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 21 cm
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Español
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Siendo una de los primeros artistas latinos en cruzar fronteras culturales en este país. Jon Secada dominó las listas de música pop al inicio de los años noventa lanzando títulos como Otro día más sin verte y Ángel y ganó varios premios Grammy. Como cubano en el exilio, Jon entiende que vivir significa comenzar de nuevo cada vez y aceptar las oportunidades que se presenten, algo que nunca perdió de vista mientras alcanzaba su sueño de convertirse...
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x, 724 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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English
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"Bing Crosby dominated American popular culture in a way that few artists ever have. From the dizzy era of Prohibition through the dark days of the Second World War, he was a desperate nation's most beloved entertainer. But he was more than just a charismatic crooner: Bing Crosby redefined the very foundations of modern music, from the way it was recorded to the way it was orchestrated and performed. In this much-anticipated follow-up to the universally...
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273 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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"Across seven decades, Bob Dylan has been the first singer of American song. As a writer and performer, he has rewritten the national songbook in a way that comes from his own vision and yet can feel as if it belongs to anyone who might listen. In Folk Music, Greil Marcus tells Dylan's story through seven of his most transformative songs. Marcus's point of departure is Dylan's ability to "see myself in others." Like Dylan's songs, this book is a work...
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xvi, 368 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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English
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Born into folk music's first family, Peggy Seeger has blazed her own trail artistically and personally. Jean Freedman draws on a wealth of research and conversations with Seeger to tell the life story of one of music's most charismatic performers and tireless advocates. Here is the story of Seeger's multifaceted career, from her youth to her pivotal role in the American and British folk revivals, from her instrumental virtuosity to her tireless work...
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"A religious biography of Tina Turner that maps her journey from the Black Baptist church to Buddhism and includes special attention to the diverse metaphysical beliefs that influenced her along the way"--
"If you don't know Tina Turner's spirituality, you don't know Tina. When Tina Turner reclaimed her throne as the Queen of Rock 'n' Roll in the 1980s, she attributed her comeback to one thing: the wisdom and power she found in Buddhism. Her spiritual...
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"August 2014 marks 50 years since Bob Dylan released his remarkable fourth album, Another Side of Bob Dylan. Recorded in one night, in the middle of a turbulent year in his life, the album marked a departure from Dylan's socially-conscious folk songs and began his evolution toward other directions. Few people outside Dylan's immediate family have ever been closer than Victor Maymudes, who was Dylan's tour manager, personal friend, and travelling companion...
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1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Documentary on rock singer Janis Joplin, with her own words telling much of the story through a series of letters she wrote home over the years, read by Chan Marshall. Includes interviews with musicians P!nk, Kris Kristofferson, Melissa Etheridge, Bob Weir, Juliette Lewis, TV presenter Dick Cavett, filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker, the Joplin family, and others.
175) Billie
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1 videodisc (96 min.) : digital, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Documentary on the famed jazz singer Billie Holiday, and her would-be biographer.
176) Sing your song
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1 videodisc (approximately 104 min.) : sound, color with some black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Told with a remarkable sense of intimacy, visual style and musical panache, Susanne Rostock's inspiring biographical documentary surveys the life and times of singer/actor/activist Harry Belafonte. From his rise to fame as a singer and his experiences touring a segregated country to his provocative crossover into Hollywood, Belafonte's groundbreaking career personifies the American civil rights movement.
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1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Patti Smith is a renowned singer, songwriter, poet and activist. Her music, poetry, and politics are fearless, funny, raw and original. Traces Patti's punk-poet roots through the trials of daily life and untimely deaths that have formed her life and art. Touches on her early days in New York City and includes the people dearest to her, her family, and the political causes she champions.
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1 videodisc (approximately 80 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Explores the history of the American South and its music through the life of country singer Charley Pride. Raised in the segregated Mississippi Delta, Pride's voice, talent, and resolve led him to the Country Music Hall of Fame.
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266 pages, 4 unnumbered pages : chiefly illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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"Before she was the legendary Mama Cass of the folk group The Mamas and the Papas, Ellen Cohen was a teen girl from Baltimore with an incredible voice, incredible confidence, and incredible dreams. She dreamed of being not just a singer but a star. Not just a star -- a superstar. So, at the age of nineteen, at the dawn of the sixties, Ellen left her hometown and became Cass Elliot. At her size, Cass was never going to be the kind of girl that record...
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viii, 256 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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"An intimate, revealing look at one artist's journey from self-censorship to full expression As one of the most celebrated musicians of our time, Alicia Keys has enraptured the nation with her heartfelt lyrics, extraordinary vocal range, and soul-stirring piano compositions. Yet away from the spotlight, Alicia has grappled with private heartache - over the challenging and complex relationship with her father, the people-pleasing nature that characterized...
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