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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Neither a conventional biopic nor a traditional concert film, this documentary is a raw and intimate portrait of the legendary folk singer and activist that shifts back and forth through time as it follows Joan on her final tour and delves into her extraordinary archive, including newly discovered home movies, diaries, artwork, therapy tapes, and audio recordings. Baez is remarkably revealing about her life on and offstage, from her lifelong emotional...
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A fascinating documentation of the traditional musical culture of the 'Are'are people of the Solomon Islands, in the South-Western Pacific. The three LP records published after a first one-year field-research in 1969-70 were a "phenomenal surprise" (Garfias) as they revealed a completely unknown music (outside of the Solomon Islands) of an exceptional beauty and complexity in its instrumental and vocal polyphonies. It seemed to the researcher an absolute...
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A visit to the Spoleto Festival in Umbria on the occasion of its 10th anniversary. Highlights of the film: Don Giovanni: - director Gian Carlo Menotti, conductor Thomas Schippers, set designer Henry Moore; The Stuttgart Ballet: - choreographer John Cranko; Jerzy Grotowski's staging of El Principe Constante by Calderón presented by the Warsaw Lab Theatre, Charles Wadsworth, originator of Chamber Music Concerts at Noon - featuring brilliant young...
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"On June 1st 2011, The Okee Dokee Brothers began a month-long canoe trip at the headwaters of the Mississippi River in Lake Itasca, Minnesota. After thirty days of camping, canoeing, filming and writing the songs that make up this album, Joe and Justin eventually ended up downstream at the St. Louis Arch. Can you canoe? is the first CD/DVD in The Okee Dokee Brothers' Adventure album series"--Container.
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Nearly 30 years ago, Pol Pot overtook Cambodia and more than one million people perished in the Khmer Rouge’s brutal “killing fields.” Many others were forced into unspeakable acts in order to survive; Arn Chorn Pond is one of these survivors. Now, after living in the United States for 20 years, Arn is a musician and activist, traveling the country and giving lectures on human rights. He is also on a mission to reconcile the demons of his past....
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
This is a documentary of John Denver's life, told by all of those who were closest to him. The program delves deep into John's personality, his amazing music and his incredible passion for life. Featuring never-before-seen footage of John Denver himself, as well as insightful interviews with Annie Denver, John;s producer Milt Okun, manager Hal Thau, fellow musicians Peter Huttlinger and Lee Holdridge and others.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio's award-winning documentary is an intimate portrait of the acclaimed North Carolina band The Avett Brothers, charting their decade-and-a-half rise while chronicling their collaboration with producer Rick Rubin on the multi-Grammy-nominated album "True Sadness", released on American Recordings/Republic Records.
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Documentary about Hawaiian music and musicians. Ricardo D. Trimillos and George S. Kanahele narrate the history of Hawaiian music from ancient chants through the development of the falsetto style of singing, the introduction of the ukelele and steel guitar, the rise and fall in popularity of hapa haole songs, and the cultural rebirth of the 1970s.
Series
Criterion collection volume 167
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Concert films documenting the Monterey Pop Festival of 1967, with live performances, interviews, photos, and more.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Multiple Grammy-winner Bľa Fleck travels to Uganda, Tanzania, the Gambia, and Mali searching for the roots of the banjo. Part road movie, part historical document, this fascinating film demonstrates the power of music and musicians to reach across cultural boundaries and the limitations of language to create an instant and abiding connection. Whether plaintive or pulsating, the infectious music in Throw Down Your Heart transports viewers into the...
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
English
Description
Between 1961-1973, musicians in the Village banded together to sing about the radical social upheaval of the time, sparking everlasting political, social, and cultural changes. For the first time, the greatest singer-songwriters, authors, and performers from Greenwich Village reflect on how they collectively became the voice of a generation. Through poignant interviews, rare archival footage, and new live performances, they tell a story about community,...
Author
Series
Okee Dokee Brothers' adventure album volume 2
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
This CD invites listeners along for a journey full of camping, old-time mountain music, and miles of hiking. The accompanying DVD includes music videos and footage of the Okee Dokee Brothers' month-long trek on the Appalachian Trail where they hiked, camped, met mountain musicians, and wrote the songs that make up this album.
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