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[2011] | First edition. | Ecco | xvi, 660 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm | English |
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2011 | OverDrive | HarperCollins e-books | English | Checked Out
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A history of protest music embodied in 33 songs since the 1930s.
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[1983] | Plume | 320 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Nonfiction 780.92 GUTHR |
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[2018] | Greystone Books | 298 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Nonfiction B SAINTEMA B |
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"A powerful, intimate look at the life and music of a beloved folk icon and activist. Folk hero. Songwriter icon. Living legend. Buffy Sainte-Marie is all of these things and more. In this, Sainte-Marie's first and only authorized biography, music critic Andrea Warner draws from more than sixty hours of exclusive interviews to offer a powerful, intimate look at the life of the beloved artist and everything that she has accomplished in her seventy-seven...
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781.66 BERGMAN MOHR
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2018. | First edition. | Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill | ix, 363 pages, 8 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 24 cm | English | Available
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Central - Adult Nonfiction 781.66 BERGMAN MOHR |
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"The history of how teenage East German punk rockers played an indispensable role in bringing down the Berlin Wall"--
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2017. | Overlook Duckworth | 358 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm | English |
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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 Pansy Craze in the years between the two World Wars; chronicles...
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©2015. | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | 1 volume (unpaged) : color ; 26 cm | English |
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Follows a young Cuban girl in the 1930s as she strives to become a drummer, despite being continually reminded that only boys play the drums, and that there's never been a female drummer in Cuba. Includes note about Millo Castro Zaldarriaga, who inspired the story, and Anacaona, the all-girl dance band she formed with her sisters.
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2017. | First edition. | Farrar Straus Giroux | 1 volume (unpaged) : color ; 29 cm | English | Available
Central - Kids Biography JB MAKEBA M |
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A harrowing picture biography of civil-rights activist and Grammy Award-winning South African singer Miriam Makeba.
Miriam Makeba, a Grammy Award-winning South African singer, rose to fame in the hearts of her people at the pinnacle of apartheid-a brutal system of segregation similar to American Jim Crow laws. Mama Africa, as they called her, raised her voice to help combat these injustices at jazz clubs in Johannesburg; in exile, at a rally beside...
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[2020] | Rutgers University Press | viii, 236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Nonfiction 306.48424 SCHRE |
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©2020 | Beacon Press | xi, 276 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm | English |
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"The untold story of the woman whose music and afro inspired a generation, whose voice provided a soundtrack for the unfolding civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s"--
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JB ODETTA
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2010. | First edition. | Scholastic Press | 1 volume (unpaged) : color ; 30 cm | English | Available
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An introduction to the life and career of the folk singer Odetta, which traces her Alabama childhood, early musical achievements and role in breaking artistic ground for other musicians.
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[2008] | Weinstein Co. Home Entertainment | 1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available
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A look at the life of controversial musician, activist, and environmentalist Pete Seeger, and how he used his songs to promote social change. Includes archival footage and interviews with Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Joan Baez, Arlo Guthrie, and more.
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©2016. | First edition. | W.W. Norton & Company | xxiii, 408 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Nonfiction 780.71 TUNST |
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"An eye-opening view of the unprecedented global spread of El Sistemaintensive music education that disrupts the cycles of poverty,"--Amazon.com.
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2009. | First edition. | Alfred A. Knopf | 151 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Nonfiction 782.42162 SEEGER WILKI |
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2019. | First edition. | University of Texas Press | 209 pages ; 22cm | English |
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As an industry insider and pioneering post-punk musician, Vivien Goldman's perspective on music journalism is unusually well-rounded. In Revenge of the She-Punks, she probes four themes-identity, money, love, and protest-to explore what makes punk such a liberating art form for women. With her visceral style, Goldman blends interviews, history, and her personal experience as one of Britain's first female music writers in a book that reads like a...
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305.235 SIMON
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2019. | First edition. | Grand Central Publishing | xiii, 321 pages, 8 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 24 cm | English | Available
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Central - Adult Nonfiction 305.235 SIMON |
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782.420973 MEACH
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782.420973 MEACH
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[2019] | First edition. | Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC | 302 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm | English | Available
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2019 | OverDrive | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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From "The Star-Spangled Banner" to "Born in the U.S.A.," Jon Meacham and Tim McGraw take readers on a moving and insightful journey through eras in American history and the songs and performers that inspired us. Meacham chronicles our history, exploring the stories behind the songs, and Tim McGraw reflects on them as an artist and performer. Their perspectives combine to create a unique view of the role music has played in uniting and shaping a nation....
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JB HOLIDAY B
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[2017] | Millbrook Press | 1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 29 cm | English | Available
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2017 | OverDrive | Lerner Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2017 | Lerner Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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Tells the story of how Billie Holiday and songwriter Abel Meeropol combined their talents to create "Strange Fruit," the iconic protest song that brought attention to lynching and racism in America.
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[2000] | Running Press | 160 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm | English |
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[2019] | Oxford University Press | xvii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm | English | Available
Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction 782.421592 SULLI |
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When he emerged from the nightclubs of Greenwich Village, Bob Dylan was often identified as a "protest" singer. As early as 1962, however, Dylan was already protesting the label: "I don't write no protest songs," he told his audience on the night he debuted "Blowin' in the Wind." "Protest" music is largely perceived as an unsubtle art form, a topical brand of songwriting that preaches to the converted. But popular music of all types has long given...
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[2017] | Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House | 108 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. | English | Available
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Presents the life of the folk singer and social activist, and discusses his role in the union, anti-war, civil rights, and environmental movements and the opposition he sometimes aroused for his radical views.