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Series
Criterion collection volume 892
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Before Woodstock and Monterey Pop, there was Festival. From 1963 through 1966, Murray Lerner visited the annual Newport Folk Festival to document a thriving, idealistic musical movement as it reached its peak as a popular phenomenon. Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Howlin' Wolf, Johnny Cash, the Staple Singers, Pete Seeger, Son House, and Peter, Paul and Mary were just a few of the legends who shared the stage at Newport, treating audiences to a range of folk...
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Central Khmer
Description
It follows the journey of Hope, a young American girl visiting her relatives in Cambodia for the first time. Determined to learn the history of her parents, Hope discovers the story of how one song, PChampa Battambang played an integral part in three generations. Starting with how her parents met and fell in love in 1968, to their fight for survival during the war-torn Khmer Rouge years of the 70s, and finally finishing in the modern day.
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
The miner's daughter who was the darling of the gold camps steps out of music books and onto the screen in this lively version of the story behind a legendary American folk song. It's the Gold Rush of 1849 and men from all walks of life are heading for California to make their fortunes as prospectors. As the only woman in a mining camp called No Place Really, Clementine, the daughter of Lucky Jake, can have any man she wants.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Enjoy this glorious concert of Irish music as three extraordinary performers sing some of the most beloved songs from Ireland's rich musical history. With the Gulf Coast Symphony of Fort Myers, Florida, the concert features new arrangements by one of the trio's talented tenors and reflects the breadth of the Irish experience.
13) Dubliners live
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Live concert recording of the 40th anniversary reunion of the Dubliners, featuring old favorites and newer compositions.
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Folk singer Pete Seeger is featured on his 10-month world tour after having been blacklisted and barred from American television. Includes bonus footage comprising interviews and performances from various Australian television appearances, Seeger singing and discussing the songs of Lead Belly, and a short film about Australian folk singer Duke Tritton.
16) Fados
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Portuguese
Description
Explore a musical genre that combines African and Brazilian origins into a fusion of cinema, song, dance, and instruments. Includes legends Maria Severa and Amália Rodrigues, modern stars Mariza and Camane, and more.
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
All the colors of the earth: Reveals in verse that despite outward differences, children everywhere are essentially the same and all are lovable. Foolish frog: A dramatization of Charles L. Seeger's and Pete Seeger's song of the same title in which a foolish bullfrog explodes with pride when he hears someone singing a song about him. Over in the meadow: Counting song in which flowers and grasses, animals and insects, mothers and their young provide...
18) Man in the sand
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
"The life and music of legendary folk singer Woody Guthrie has influenced every generation that followed him. Thirty years after his death, his daughter, Nora Guthrie, who presides over a vast archive which includes Wood's unrecorded lyrics, decided to seek out a sympathetic contemporary artist to 'help look for the man behind the myth, ' a search which led to her collaboration with Guthrie acolyte Billy Bragg. Man in the Sand is the story of how...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A documentary by four-time Emmy Award-winning producer/director Jim Brown features rare and previously unseen television footage including a BBC program from the early 1960s that embodies many of the trio's best performances and most popular songs. This is Peter, Paul and Mary at the peak of their artistry, a time when this popular and influential trio dominated the Billboard music charts.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"The mountains of Appalachia are home to a folk music tradition that traces its roots to England, Scotland, and Ireland. Picking up the African banjo and other influences in its evolution, this tradition gave rise to gospel, bluegrass and country music. ... the Queen family of Western North Carolina have come to represent Southern Appalachian heritage and a way of life that's passing, but not yet gone"--Container.
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