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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
469 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 25 cm.
Description
The popular singer and former UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador shares the story of his life and career, from his impoverished childhood in Harlem and Jamaica and his racial barrier-breaking career to his commitment to numerous civil causes.
3) Still Bill
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 76 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An unique and rare look inside the world of soul legend Bill Withers. Through concert footage, journeys to his birthplace, interviews with musicians, his family and closest friends, Still Bill presents the story of an artist who has written some of the most beloved songs in our time and who truly understands the heart and soul of a man.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
108 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
Presents the life of one of the bestselling artists of all time, from her start singing in front of her father's Baptist congregation to being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
5) Wattstax
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On Aug. 20, 1972, more than 100,000 people attended a concert that came to be known as 'the Black Woodstock.' Wattstax documents this historic event and includes the once-lost original ending.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Celebrate the vibrant jazz, R&B, and soul music of African American artists who, during segregation, created the foundation of modern American music. Like many other Black Americans, they relied on Victor Hugo Green's Negro Travelers' Green Book, a directory of lodgings, restaurants, and entertainment venues where African Americans were safe and welcomed. Now explore the history of this essential guide with vocalists, musicians, historians, and others...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Lazarus is an extremely religious man who is broken hearted after his wife leaves him for his own brother. Rae is the town slut, apparently afflicted with the "disease" of uncontrollable nymphomania. After a night of hard partying and sleeping around, Rae, is beaten up and left by the roadside near Lazarus' house. Lazarus takes her in and chains her to his radiator while trying to "cure" her insatiability. Eventually, the two become friends and help...
Author
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Born blind into a life of slavery, Thomas Wiggins was dismissed as a "useless burden." But through the loving protection of his family, he went on to become one of the greatest musicians of his time. From Tom's childhood on a plantation to his performances in the concert halls of Europe, Glenda Armand shares the beautiful and at times heartbreaking story of a long-overlooked musical great, the love that supported him, and the struggle for freedom."--Amazon.com....
10) Green book
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2019.
Formats
Description
During the nineteen sixties, a bouncer, whose nightclub closes for renovations, finds a temporary employment as a driver for black pianist Don Shirley going on a tour into the Deep South states.
11) Louie Bluie
Series
Criterion collection volume 532
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Documents the obscure country blues musician and idiosyncratic visual artist, Howard 'Louie Bluie' Armstrong, member of the last known black string band in America. Director Terry Zwigoff honors him with an unsentimental but endlessly affectionate tribute. Full of infectious music and comedy, this is a humane evocation of the kind of pop-cultural marginalia that Zwigoff would continue to make in the coming years.
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
570 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Description
"In 1866 as Tom and his guardian, Eliza Bethune, struggle to adjust to their fashionable apartment in the city in the aftermath of riots that had driven them away a few years before. But soon a stranger arrives from the mysterious island of Edgemere, inhabited solely by African settlers and black refugees from the war and riots, who intends to reunite Tom with his now-liberated mother."--Page [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
278 pages : llustration, color illustrations on endpapers, portrait ; 24 cm
Description
A cultural portrait of the Pulitzer Prize-winning rap superstar documents his coming-of-age as an artist, his genius as a lyricist, and his profound impact on today's racially fraught America.
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
277 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Description
The intimate debut memoir by the man known to the world as Mister Rogers' Neighborhood's "Officer Clemmons," a Grammy Award-winning artist who made history as the first African American actor to have a recurring role on a children's television program.
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