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Author
Language
English
Description
Daphne A. Brooks explores more than a century of music archives to examine the critics, collectors, and listeners who have determined perceptions of Black women on stage and in the recording studio. How is it possible, she asks, that iconic artists such as Aretha Franklin and Beyonce exist simultaneously at the center and on the fringe of the culture industry?
Liner Notes for the Revolution offers a startling new perspective on these acclaimed figures-a...
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Daphne A. Brooks explores more than a century of music archives to examine the critics, collectors, and listeners who have determined perceptions of African American women on stage and in the recording studio. Liner Notes for the Revolution offers a startling new perspective on these acclaimed figures-a perspective informed by the overlooked contributions of other black women concerned with the work of their musical peers. Zora Neale Hurston appears...
4) The Beatles
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Collection of all 13 studio albums, along with: Past masters. A 2 - cd collection of all the Beatles non-album singles and EP tracks also digitally remastered. All albums feature deluxe packaging with expanded booklets including rare photographs and additional liner notes. Also includes the Mini Documentaries DVD, featuring 13 mini - documentaries about the making of each of the studio albums in the words of The Beathles themselves and Sir George...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
A fascinating account that takes us from ancient China to renaissance Italy to everywhere today, by the bestselling author of Fermat's Last Theorem. Annotation. Bestselling science writer Amir Aczel uncovers the fascinating story of the invention of the compass and its impact on the world. Amir D. Aczel, the distinguished science writer, turns detective as he uncovers the fascinating story of the invention of the compass. It's a fabulous tale of Chinese...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Français
Description
Daresalam is the first African feature film to focus on the civil wars convulsing the continent from Sierra Leone to Somalia. It provides compelling insights into how ordinary people around the world get swept up in extraordinary events. Its timeless story of two childhood friends turned into political foes personalizes the terrible costs of internecine strife. Daresalam is not only director Issa Serge Coelo's first feature but one of the first feature...
10) Animal farm
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A group of farm animals successfully revolt against their cruel human owner, only to be enslaved anew by the unscrupulous pig Napolean, whose slogan is "all animals are equal but some animals more equal than others."
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
"Music in the USA: A Documentary Companion charts a path through American music and musical life using as guides the words of composers, performers, writers and the rest of us ordinary folks who sing, dance, and listen. The anthology of primary sources contains about 160 selections from 1540 to 2000. Sometimes the sources are classics in the literature around American music, for example, the Preface to the Bay Psalm Book, excerpts from Slave Songs...
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