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61) Rock
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"In the 1950s, a new style of music called "rock and roll" blended the rhythm and blues (R & B) music played by black American artists with the sounds of traditional country and western music, gospel, folk music, and other genres. Since its creation, rock music has represented the spirit of young people, often reflecting them at their best: working to improve society, and also to have fun. ...rock music has evolved and changed, but remains as vibrant...
63) Footloose
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Ren MacCormack moves from Boston to the small town of Bomont, where he experiences a heavy dose of culture shock. A few years prior, the community was rocked by a tragic accident that killed five teenagers after a night out. Bomont's councilmen and the beloved Reverend Shaw Moore responded by invoking ordinances that prohibit loud music and dancing. Not one to bow to the status quo, Ren challenges the ban, revitalizes the town, and falls in love with...
64) Pink Floyd
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Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 2
Description
This history of Pink Floyd highlights the band's career and cultural impact. Readers learn about Pink Floyd's beginnings as a British R&B band, their turn to psychedelic rock, and the creation of iconic albums. Engaging text, historic photographs, and sidebars bring the story to life.
66) 21
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Grammy Award-winning singer Adele presents her eagerly awaited sophomore album, which includes the single Rolling in the Deep, a bluesy-gospel-disco tune. This CD is the follow-up to her critically acclaimed debut release, 19; both albums were named after her age at the time they were written. Adele, along with British producer Paul Epworth, wrote and produced this release.
"3 out of 4...Heartache and pain fuel her songs, but this scorned woman has...
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Rich Cohen enters the Stones epic as a young journalist on the road with the band and quickly falls under their sway -- privy to the jokes, the camaraderie, the bitchiness, the hard living. Inspired by a lifelong appreciation of the music that borders on obsession, Cohen's chronicle of the band is informed by the rigorous views of a kid who grew up on the music and for whom the Stones will always be the greatest rock roll band of all time
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"An oral history of The Beatles from never-before-seen interviews. All You Need Is Love is a groundbreaking oral history of the one of the most enduring musical acts of all time. The material is comprised of intimate interviews with Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, their families, friends and business associates that were conducted by Beatles intimate Peter Brown and author Steven Gaines in 1980-1981 during the preparation of...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Sebastian Prendergast lives in a geodesic dome with his eccentric grandmother, who homeschools him in the teachings of futurist philosopher R. Buckminster Fuller. But when his grandmother has a stroke, Sebastian is forced to leave the dome and make his own way in town.
Pub. Date
2007
Description
"Rhythm and lead for all styles: Classic seventies (Led Zep, Deep Purple) -- Shredding eighties (AC/DC, Van Halen, Iron Maiden) -- Nuclear nineties (Metallica, Slayer) -- Today's heroes (Shadows Fall, Killswitch Engage). Power chords - killer riffs - power soloing - super tricks; plus the inside scoop on amps, guitars, and effects."--Container.
73) Lenny
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Description
Contains twelve songs by Grammy Award-winning artist Lenny Kravitz, including "Dig In," "Yesterday is Gone," and "Battlefield of Love."
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Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Con sus relucientes gafas de sol, su lonchera clásica y sus lápices tamborileros, Lupe Lopez llega el primer día a kínder lista para el rock. "¡Soy famosa!" anuncia Lupe mientras tamborilea sobre cualquier cosa--pupitres, sillas y mesas--, mientras más ruidoso, mejor. En la escuela hay muchas reglas, pero las estrellas de rock no obedecen las reglas, así que Lupe tampoco. Antes de que acabe el día, la maestra le ha quitado todas sus preciadas...
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"On August 15, 1969, a music festival called 'Woodstock' transformed one small dairy farm in upstate New York into a gathering place for over 400,000 young music fans. Concert-goers, called 'hippies,' traveled from all over the country to see their favorite musicians perform. Famous artists like The Grateful Dead played day and night in a celebration of peace, love, and happiness. Although Woodstock lasted only three days, the spirit of the festival...
77) Juliet, naked
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Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
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In a dreary seaside town in England, Annie loves Duncan - or thinks she does, because she always has. Duncan loves Annie, but then, all of a sudden, he doesn't anymore. So Annie stops loving Duncan, and starts getting her own life. She sparks an e-mail correspondence with Tucker Crowe, a reclusive Dylansque singer-songwriter who stopped making music twenty-two years ago, and who is also Duncan's greatest obsession. A surprising connection is forged...
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Pub. Date
[2020]
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"In Cool Town, Grace Elizabeth Hale examines the town's flourishing as a Southern alternative culture mecca, emerging out of the civil rights struggles of the 1960s and early 1970s to become home for a set of artistic, social, and political alternatives to northern liberalism or urban punk on the left and Sunbelt Republicanism on the right. In this moment of cultural flourishing, Hale argues, a generation of young white southerners could not or did...