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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Carlisa "Carli" Henton is a musician and songwriter hoping to follow in her father's musical footsteps. But, biding her time until she makes it big in the music industry, she works as a junior account manager at a big-name media company to cover her New York City rent. Carli meticulously balances her work with her musical endeavors as a songwriter--until a chance meeting with rising star Tau Anderson sends her calculated world into a frenzy. Their...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ray McMillian loves playing the violin more than anything, and nothing will stop him from pursuing his dream of becoming a professional musician. Not his mother, who thinks he should get a real job, not the fact that he can't afford a high-caliber violin, not the racism inherent in the classical music world. And when he makes the startling discovery that his great-grandfather's fiddle is actually a priceless Stradivarius, his star begins to rise....
Author
Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Notorious B.I.G. was one of the most charismatic and talented artists of the 1990s. Born Christopher Wallace and raised in Clinton Hill/Bed Stuy, Brooklyn, Biggie lived an almost archetypal rap life: young trouble, drug dealing, guns, prison, a giant hit record, the wealth and international superstardom that came with it, then an early violent death. Biggie released his first record, Ready to Die, in 1994, when he was only 22. Less than three...
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
Ragtime musician Scott Joplin's postmortem journal is at the center of a 1950s Sedalia, Missouri conflict between Brun Campbell, Joplin's one-time student who wants to open a museum memorializing him, author/historian Rudi Blesh who wants to publish the journal against Campbell's wishes, an aspiring teenage pianist who idolizes Joplin's work, and two seedy Klansmen vying to keep Joplin's name out of the town's history.
5) Jimi Hendrix
Author
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
127 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the rock guitarist whose short but powerful career was highlighted by a legendary performance at Woodstock in 1969.
Author
Series
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Motown music emerged in the United States in the 1960s. It launched the careers of many African American musicians. Motown music shaped culture and society during the American civil rights movement. The Making of Motown explores the history and legacy of Motown. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 286 pages, 24 pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Gucci Mane began writing his memoir in a maximum-security federal prison. Released in 2016, he emerged radically transformed. He was sober, smiling, focused, and positive -- a far cry from the Gucci Mane of years past. Born in rural Bessemer, Alabama, Radric Delantic Davis became Gucci Mane in East Atlanta, where the rap scene is as vibrant as the dope game. His name was made as a drug dealer first, rapper second. His mixtapes and street anthems helped...
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Lexile measure
AD 770L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Born blind into a life of slavery in Georgia, 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 --
9) Green book
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Tony Lip, a bouncer from an Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx, is hired to drive Dr. Don Shirley, a world-class Black pianist, on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South, they must rely on The Green Book to guide them to the few establishments that were then safe for African-Americans. Confronted with racism, danger, as well as unexpected humanity and humor, they are forced to set aside differences to survive and thrive on the...
10) Taft
Author
Language
English
Description
Best-selling novelist Ann Patchett's second, "strikingly original" novel tells the moving story of John Nickel, an ex-jazz musician who wanted nothing more than to be a good father. When his lover takes away his son, he's left only with his Beale Street, Memphis bar. He hires a young waitress named Fay Taft who brings with her a desperate, dangerous brother, Carl, and the possibility of new intimacy. Nickel finds himself consumed with Fay and Carl's...
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1963, Dwayne Hallston discovers James Brown and wants to perform just like him. Meanwhile, Dwayne's forbidden black friend Larry, aspiring to play piano like Thelonius Monk, apprentices to a jazz musician called the Bleeder. A mutual passion for music helps Dwayne and Larry as they try to achieve their dreams.--Source other than Library of Congress.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 242 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the streets of Baltimore to the halls of the New Mexico Philharmonic, a musician shares his remarkable story in I'm Possible, an inspiring memoir of perseverance and possibility. Growing up, Richard Antoine White and his mother didn't have a key to a room or a house. Sometimes they had shelter, but they never had a place to call home. Still, they always had each other, and from a young age, Richard believed he could look after his mother, even...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
900L
Physical Desc
108 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
469 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English
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.
Author
Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow Publishers
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First IT Books paperback.
Physical Desc
336 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Growing up in the rural poverty of the Mississippi Delta, King first experienced the blues at nine years old, when his mother passed away. The man of the house before the end of his first decade, he used this strife as a source of inspiration and launched one of the most celebrated musical careers in American history. King has led a remarkable life, and this riveting autobiography dramatizes his whirlwind adventures from the Memphis of the forties...