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Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Edition
1st Picador ed.
Physical Desc
xiii, 546 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Forged in the fires of the Bronx and Kingston, Jamaica,
hip-hop became the Esperanto of youth rebellion and a
generation-defining movement. In a post-civil rights era
defined by deindustrialization and globalization, hip-hop
crystallized a multiracial, polycultural generation's
worldview, and transformed American politics and culture.
But that epic story has never been told with this kind of
...
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p1999
Physical Desc
7 sound discs (ca. 8 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Two boys, best friends in a small midwestern town, finally come to understand that of all the terrors threatening them from Cooger and Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show the greatest menance exists within themselves.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
390 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The encyclopedia once shaped our understanding of the world. Created by thousands of scholars and the most obsessive of editors, a good set conveyed a sense of absolute wisdom on its reader. Contributions from Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Orville Wright, Alfred Hitchcock, Marie Curie and Indira Gandhi helped millions of children with their homework. Adults cleared their shelves in the belief that everything that was explainable was now effortlessly...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
This Very Short Introduction to Classics links a haunting temple on a lonely mountainside to the glory of ancient Greece and the grandeur of Rome, and to Classics within modern culture-from Jefferson and Byron to Asterix and Ben-Hur. We are all Classicists - we come into touch with the Classics daily: in our culture, politics, medicine, architecture, language, and literature. What are the true roots of these influences, however, and how do our interpretations...
Author
Publisher
Imagine!
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
320 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
A history of rock and roll, covering the roots of the musical era from the rhythm and blues of the 1950s through British rock, surfer music, Motown, beginnings of heavy metal and punk, and more, with archival photographs, posters, album covers, and discussions of various cultural phenomena and art forms connected to the music.
Author
Publisher
Harmony Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
661 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A comprehensive biography and history of the Beatles that describes their childhood in Liverpool and influence by such popular artists including Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry, and chronicles their growth as singers, song writers, and instrumentalists.
Author
Series
Charles Eliot Norton lectures volume 1985-1986
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
1988
Physical Desc
124 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"One of the most rigorously presented and beautifully illustrated critical testaments in all of literature."-Boston Globe "A brilliant, original approach to literature, a key to Calvino's own work and a thoroughly delightful and illuminating commentary on some of the world's greatest writing."-San Francisco Chronicle At the time of his death, Italo Calvino was at work on six lectures setting forth the qualities in writing he most valued, and which...
Author
Publisher
Three Rivers Press
Pub. Date
©2009
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 374 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-369) and index. The Iliad ; The Odyssey / Homer -- The Bible: The Old Testament, The New Testament -- The Aeneid / Virgil -- Metamorphoses / Ovid -- Beowulf / Anonymous -- Inferno ; Paradiso / Dante Alighieri -- The Decameron / Giovanni Boccaccio -- The Canterbury tales / Geoffrey Chaucer -- The Faerie Queene / Edmund Spenser -- Hamlet; King Lear; Macbeth / William Shakespeare -- Don Quixote / Miguel de...
13) Jazz
Publisher
PBS DVD
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
10 videodiscs (ca. 19 hr.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Documentary exploring the history of jazz from its beginnings through the 1990's, including the stories of many of its creators and performers. Includes archival video, still photographs, historical performances, and newly recorded interviews and musical performances.
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Originally written as a political satire and now read as an adventure story, the travels of Gulliver include adventures in a land where people were only inches tall, in a land of giants, on an island that floated in the air, and in a country ruled by horses.
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
[paperback edition]
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Selects ten songs recorded between 1956 and 2008 that embody rock and roll as a thing in itself--in the story each song tells, inhabits, and creates in its legacy.
17) Koko Pops
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 11 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A little female character called Koko represents the muse of music and dances and clowns her way through a breathless, animated short-history of western music from the beginning of time to punk. It’s an ideal introduction to a range of musical styles including pan flutes, baroque, romantic, circus music, jazz, French popular and opera.
Author
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xv, 431 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Emerging from the jazz clubs of the early 1950s, skiffle -- a uniquely British take on American folk and blues -- caused a sensation among a generation of kids who had grown up during the dreary post-war years. These were Britain's first teenagers, looking for a music of their own in a culture dominated by crooners and mediated by a stuffy BBC. Sales of guitars rocketed from 5,000 to 250,000 a year, and -- as with the punk rock that would flourish...
Author
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
42 sound discs (ca. 2520 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (381 p., 22 cm.)
Language
English
Description
To truly understand the United States of America, you must explore its literary tradition. Now, in this grand collection of 84 fascinating lectures, you'll get the chance to finally become familiar with America's true literary masterpieces (some you may already be familiar with, others you have yet to discover). Professor Weinstein has crafted these lectures to explain why some works become classics while others do not, why some "immortal" works fade...
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