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Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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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.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
Kem goes back to the very beginning to introduce his grandmother who worked as a sharecropper in the South and had thirteen children. As Kem's family rises from the sharecropping and ultimately lands in Detroit, there is an unspoken mantra of "hard things are better left unsaid," which has devastating consequences down the line. His mother is never without a beer in her hand, and his relationship with his father is oddly tense. Emotionally starved,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In a musical career spanning five decades, from Small Talk at a 125th and Lenox (1970) to I'm New Year (2010), Gil Scott-Heron (1949–2011) released twenty albums and many seminal singles including "The Revolution Will Not be Televised," "Home is Where the Hatred Is," "Winter in America," "B Movie" "Johannesburg" and "Lady Day and John Coltrane." He was also the author of three previous books-two novels, The Vulture (1970) and The Nigger Factory...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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....
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Growing up around music, young George was inspired to piece together a makeshift drum set and teach himself to play as he practiced in the dark, dank basement of his run-down New Jersey row house. He soon joined forces with his friends to form a group called the Jazziacs which then evolved into Kool & The Gang, a band that began playing clubs and charting hits while its members were still teenagers. By evolving their sound as musical tastes changed,...
15) Jimi Hendrix
Author
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the rock guitarist whose short but powerful career was highlighted by a legendary performance at Woodstock in 1969.
17) Charlie Parker
Author
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
Introduces the life and times of the noted jazz musician Charlie Parker.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
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 Moore provides a definitive account of Lamar's coming-of-age as an artist, his resurrection of jazz, his profound impact on a racially fraught America, and his emergence as the bona fide King of Rap. Through his confessional poetics, his politically charged anthems,...
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