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1) Festival
Series
Criterion collection volume 892
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Performances of and interviews with some of the legendary musicians who participated in the Newport Folk Festival, 1963-1966.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. He is at a crossroads. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, he is struggling to make it as a musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles; some of them of his own making.
Author
Publisher
Gibbs Smith
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Description
"The folk art inspired by Day of the Dead, celebrated in Mexico and around the world, including the American Southwest, powerfully communicates the cultural traditions of this joyous holiday. As a companion volume to the authors' Day of the Dead, this book focuses on the artistic imagery of Day of the Dead, including the skulls, skeletons, and the iconic figure of Catrina, as seen in various pieces of market art, community art and contemporary art....
Author
Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xxv, 259 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Description
"When singer, musician, and broadcast journalist Malka Marom had the opportunity to interview Joni Mitchell in 1973, she was eager to reconnect with the performer she'd first met late one night in 1966 at a Yorkville coffeehouse. More conversations followed over the next four decades of friendship, and it was only after Joni and Marom completed their last recorded interview, in 2012, that Malka discovered the heart of their discussions: the creative...
Author
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xiv, 450 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 25 cm
Description
Peggy Seeger is one of folk music's most influential artists and songwriters. Born in New York City in 1935, she enjoyed a childhood steeped in music and left-wing politics - they remain her lifeblood. After college, she traveled to Russia and China - against US advice - before arriving in London, where she met the man with whom she would raise three children and share the next thirty-three years: Ewan MacColl. Together, they helped lay the foundations...
Author
Series
Canticos volume 1
Publisher
Encantos Media Studios
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 16 cm.
Description
Presents a bilingual version of the traditional Latin American song about a brood of baby chicks and the way the mother hen cares for them.
Author
Publisher
Rayo
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
63 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Description
This illustrated book for children introduces and organizes Christmas songs into the following categories: on the road to Bethlehem, the posadas, Christmas eve, the shepherds, Christmas lullabies, Saint Joseph, the Christmas tree, aguinaldos, and the Three Wise Kings. Musical notations of six of the songs are included at the end.
Este libro ilustrado para niños introduce y organiza canciones de Navidad en las siguientes categorías: camino a Belén,...
18) Tibet in song
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 DVD (86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In Tibet, a once-sovereign nation for thousands of years, much of the country remains under harsh Communist Chinese rule and "patriotic re-education." The surviving Tibetan folk music shapes an endangered people's identity. Ngawang Choephel, a Tibetan musicologist who fled for India at the age of two, returned home to capture the music of his people. He was arrested and sentenced to eighteen years in prison, serving nearly seven before a highly-publicized...
19) Mariachi
Author
Publisher
Gibbs Smith
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
176 pages : color illustrations.
20) Fox 8: a story
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Description
Idealistic Fox 8's ability to communicate in "Yuman" cannot save his pack when their den and food supply are destroyed to build a mall, so he writes a letter asking for an explanation of human's cruelty.
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