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"The song "Say It Loud (I'm Black and I'm Proud)" is personified, describing the Black history and culture that inspired its creation. Written in 1968 by singer James Brown after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, the song became an anthem for the civil rights movement"--
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color), music ; 29 cm
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An illustrated version of the song written by civil rights leader and poet James Weldon Johnson in 1899 that has come to be considered the African American national anthem.
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.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
xv, 527 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
"The Jazz Standards, a comprehensive guide to the most important jazz compositions, is a unique resource, a browser's companion, and an invaluable introduction to the art form. This essential book for music lovers tells the story of more than 250 key jazz songs, and includes a listening guide to more than 2,000 recordings. Author Ted Gioia, whose body of work includes the award-winning The History of Jazz and Delta Blues, is the perfect guide to lead...
8) 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.
Publisher
Searchlight Pictures
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In his acclaimed debut as a filmmaker, Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson presents a powerful and transporting documentary, part music film, part historical record, created around an epic event that celebrated Black history, culture, and fashion. Over the course of six weeks in the summer of 1969, just one hundred miles south of Woodstock, The Harlem Cultural Festival was filmed in Mount Morris Park (now Marcus Garvey Park). The footage was largely forgotten,...
12) Kwanzaa music
Publisher
Rounder
Pub. Date
p1994
Physical Desc
1 CD : digital ; 4 3/4 in.+ 1 booklet.
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