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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Enslaved African Americans longed for freedom, and that longing took many forms including music. Drawing on biblical imagery, slave songs both expressed the sorrow of life in bondage and offered a rallying cry for the spirit. Like a Bird brings together text, music, and illustrations by Coretta Scott King Award-winning illustrator Michele Wood to convey the rich meaning behind thirteen of these powerful songs.
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Series
Jazz volume episode 1
Publisher
PBS DVD Gold
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
Beginnings to 1917: Born amidst African-Americans in 1890s New Orleans, jazz blends every kind of music resounding in the streets of the nation's most cosmopolitan city. Includes archival video, still photographs, historical performances, and newly recorded interviews and musical performances.
Author
Series
Taylor history of crime comics volume no. 5
Publisher
Taylor
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Publisher
A&E
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
"From the crucifixion to the Crusades, the Reformation to the sweeping changes of Vatican II, Christianity : the first two thousand years takes a comprehensive look at the events and people who have influenced and been a part of the epic journey that is the evolution of the faith." --container.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
A look at Sun Records, a Nashville company that defined American music. Part of the series American Masters, this program includes rare footage of numerous performers including Elvis Presley, Paul McCartney, Robert Plant, Jerry Lee Lewis, and more. Interviews with the company's founder and an emotional reunion of old Mississippi Delta musicians are also featured.
Author
Publisher
BBC Audiobooks America
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
James Naughtie uncovers the roots of our music, revealing how composers and performers, princes, patrons and chance happenings built a classical tradition that has become the soundtrack to our history. From the earliest music of the monasteries, to the court and church music of the Renaissance and Reformation, into the age of democracy, composers changed with the times, coping with the restraints imposed by religion and state, even as they responded...
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