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By Stuart A Kallen. 2012
Short overview of rock and roll starting in the mid-1950s. Offers an analysis of psychedelic rock, heavy metal, and punk.…
Discusses the Woodstock effect and provides a recommended listening list, including songs by AC/DC, Jimi Hendrix, Bruce Springsteen, Led Zeppelin, and others. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2012By Stuart A Kallen. 2012
Traces American pop music from the early 1900s in New York City's Tin Pan Alley to the twenty-first-century global market.…
Covers the sounds populating Billboard magazine's chart, including jazz, the blues, disco, and rap. Offers a recommended listening list. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2012By Jimmy Breslin. 2011
Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist's biography of Brooklyn Dodgers manager Branch Rickey (1881-1965), who integrated major league baseball when he signed African…
American player Jackie Robinson in 1947. Also describes Rickey's invention of the farm system. Some strong language. 2011By Stuart A Kallen. 2012
Short overview of country music, from Hank Williams (1923-1953) to Taylor Swift (born 1989). Covers a variety of styles, such…
as cowboy, western swing, honky-tonk, the Nashville sound, country rock, and pop country. Includes recommendations for listening and other resources. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2012Short biography of William Powell (1916-2009), who in 1948 was the first African American to build, own, and open a…
golf course--the Clearview Golf Club--for everyone, regardless of race. Discusses his childhood ambitions, hard work, service in the U.S. Army, and family life. For grades 2-4. 2012Biography of American swimmer Gertrude Ederle (1906-2003), who in 1926 became the first woman to swim across the English Channel.…
Discusses her childhood bout with measles that led to permanent hearing loss and describes subsequent achievements, including Olympic medals, world records, and the landmark swim from France to England. 2009By Melvin Berger. 2001
Presents 231 well-known chamber music works for three to eight players by fifty-five composers arranged alphabetically. Provides a biographical sketch,…
historical context, and salient features of the music. Discusses compositions by Beethoven, Brahms, Haydn, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Schubert, and Tchaikovsky and modern masters Britten, Carter, Copland, Ravel, Shostakovich, and Stravinsky. 2001Presents facts and statistics about the all-American game--baseball. Covers the major league teams, the World Series, playing tips, and stars…
including Honus Wagner, Satchel Paige, Rickey Henderson, and Albert Pujols. For grades 5-8 and older readers. 2010By Eric Siblin. 2009
A pop music critic recounts his infatuation with Bach's Cello Suites and search for the original manuscript. Explores the contrasting…
lives of composer Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) and cello virtuoso Pablo Casals (1876-1973), who discovered and recorded the suites. Includes interviews with cellists about the works' performance challenges. 2009By Thomas Quasthoff. 2008
German bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff reminisces about his private and public experiences--such as having thalidomide disabilities, being denied admission to the…
Music Academy, and singing his way from a body cast to a Grammy Award. Discusses jazz, American popular music, classical composers, physical impairments, prestigious competitions, and international performances. 2004By Lance Allred. 2009
Allred describes his childhood in a polygamous Mormon community in Montana. Covers his dealing with hearing loss and obsessive-compulsive disorder.…
Discusses maintaining a high GPA and a dedication to basketball in college--despite having an abusive coach--and eventually earning a stint in the NBA. Some strong language. 2009Traces the development of the modern grand piano from its harpsichord origins in the eighteenth century. Discusses the types of…
music performed on the instrument, from sonatas and concertos to ragtime and jazz. Profiles great keyboard composers such as Bach, Mozart, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, and Gershwin. 1998By Len Berman. 2010
Panel of experts pick their favorite baseball stars. Discusses the players' statistics, best games, and personalities on and off the…
field. Includes early greats like Cy Young and Ty Cobb and later ones like Mike Schmidt and Alex Rodriguez. For grades 5-8 and older readers. 2010Award-winning music critic celebrates the sounds, people, and events of the years 1936 through 1938, as America emerged from the…
Great Depression. In a series of brief narratives, Orgill chronicles Amelia Earhart's around-the-world flight attempts, Joe Louis's triumph over German boxer Max Schmeling, and the rise of big bands. 2008By Anne Brown Rodgers, Karen McCrory Pocinki. 2009
Government document discusses the benefits of exercise and physical activity for seniors. Includes tips to improve endurance, strength, flexibility, and…
balance. Offers examples of different types of movement that can fit into one's lifestyle. Discusses nutritious eating habits that will also help maintain health into old age. 2009By Mark Ribowsky. 2010
Portrait of the legendary blind Motown musician (born 1950) from his impoverished childhood to his sixtieth year. Traces his musical…
development; his long relationship with Motown Records, which began when he was eleven; and his political activism, womanizing, and descents into depression. Some strong language. 2010By Barry Cooper. 2008
This chronological narrative integrates events from the private life of German composer Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) with study of his…
devotion to music. Discusses the effects of Beethoven's increasing deafness on his social interactions and composition. 2000By John Potter. 2000
Essays on Western vocal traditions grouped in four categories: popular (including rock, rap, jazz, and world); theatre (from opera to…
popular entertainers); choral; and performance practices (from the Middle Ages to the modern era). 2000By George Jellinek. 2007
Autobiography of George Jellinek (1919-2010), who hosted a weekly syndicated radio show, The Vocal Scene, in New York City from…
1969-2004. Reminisces about his Hungarian childhood before the onset of World War II, fleeing to America, and serving in the U.S. Army. Discusses his career in the opera world. 2007By Julian Rushton. 2006
A concise biography of Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) with analysis of his masterpieces. Covers his genius in all…
musical genres--chamber, church, orchestral, and theatrical--his prolific output, European tours, and early death at age thirty-six. 2006