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TITLE: Music Is History
AUTHOR: Questlove WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 782.42 Que SUMMARY: Combines Questlove's deep musical expertise with his curiosity about history, examining America over the past fifty years. |
TITLE: Redbone: The True Story of a Native American Rock Band
AUTHOR: Christian Staebler WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 782.42 Sta - NATIVE COLLECTION SUMMARY: Experience the riveting, powerful story of the Native American civil rights movement and the resulting struggle for identity told through the high-flying career of West Coast rock 'n' roll pioneers Redbone. |
TITLE: The Sky Is Everywhere
AUTHOR: Jandy Nelson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Nel - NOVELS SUMMARY: In the months after her sister dies, seventeen-year-old Lennie falls into a love triangle and discovers the strength to follow her dream of becoming a musician. |
TITLE: Grown
AUTHOR: Tiffany D. Jackson CALL NUMBER: FIC Jac - MYSTERY SUMMARY: When legendary R&B artist Korey Fields spots Enchanted Jones at an audition, her dreams of being a famous singer take flight. Until Enchanted wakes up with blood on her hands and zero memory of the previous night. Who killed Korey Fields? Before there was a dead body, Enchanted's dreams had turned into a nightmare. Because behind Korey's charm and star power was a controlling dark side. Now he's dead, the police are at the door, and all signs point to Enchanted. |
TITLE: Can't Take That Away
AUTHOR: Steven Salvatore WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Sal - NOVELS SUMMARY: When Carey Parker, a genderqueer teen who dreams of being a diva like their hero Mariah Carey, is cast as the female lead in the school musical, they must fight against discrimination and injustice from their closed-minded school administration. |
TITLE: Crying in H Mart
AUTHOR: Michelle Zauner WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Zau SUMMARY: The Japanese Breakfast indie pop star presents a full-length account of her viral New Yorker essay to share poignant reflections on her experiences of growing up Korean-American, becoming a professional musician and caring for her terminally ill mother. |
TITLE: Queen Bey: A Celebration of the Power and Creativity of Beyoncé Knowles-Carter
AUTHOR: Edited by Veronica Chambers CALL NUMBER: 921 Bey SUMMARY: Honors the career of the star musician, sharing insights into Beyonce's record-setting achievements, her family life, and her activist contributions. |
TITLE: Let Me Hear a Rhyme
AUTHOR: Tiffany D. Jackson CALL NUMBER: FIC Jac - NOVELS SUMMARY: After their friend Steph is murdered, Quadir, Jarrell, and Steph's sister Jasmine promote his music under a new rap name, the Architect, but when his demo catches a music label rep's attention, the trio must prove his talent from beyond the grave. |
TITLE: On the Come Up
AUTHOR: Angie Thomas WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Tho - NOVELS SUMMARY: Sixteen-year-old Bri hopes to become a great rapper, and after her first song goes viral for all the wrong reasons, must decide whether to sell out or face eviction with her widowed mother. |
TITLE: Night Music
AUTHOR: Jenn Marie Thorne CALL NUMBER: FIC Tho - ROMANCE SUMMARY: Ruby and Oscar are caught up in a romance despite very different backgrounds and her having given up on music, while he is the protégé of her father, a renowned composer. |
TITLE: Heavy Vinyl Vol. 1
AUTHOR: Carly Usdin WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Usd - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: When Chris joins the staff at her local record store, she’s surprised to find out that her co-workers share a secret: they’re all members of a secret fight club that take on the patriarchy and fight crime! |
TITLE: The Cellist of Sarajevo
AUTHOR: Steven Galloway WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Gal - NOVELS SUMMARY: Follows the lives of four people--a baker, a young father, a sniper, and a cellist who commits to playing Albinoni's "Adagio" once a day for twenty-two days in memory of his neighbors who were killed--trying to adjust to their new daily routines in war-torn Sarajevo. |
TITLE: Forever My Girl
AUTHOR: Heidi McLaughlin WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC McL - ROMANCE SUMMARY: I was never supposed to be a rock star. I had my life all planned out for me. Play football in college. Go to the NFL. Marry my high school sweetheart and live happily ever after. I broke both our hearts that day when I told her I was leaving. I was young. I made the right decision for me, but the wrong decision for us. I’ve poured my soul into my music, but I’ve never forgotten her. Her smell, her smile. And now I’m going back. After ten years. I hope I can explain that after all this time. I still want her to be my forever girl. |
TITLE: Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
AUTHOR: Carrie Brownstein WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Bro SUMMARY: The guitarist and vocalist of feminist punk trio Sleater-Kinney presents a candid and deeply personal assessment of life in the rock-and-roll industry that reveals her struggles with rock's double standards and her co-development of the comedy "Portlandia." |
TITLE: Signal to Noise
AUTHOR: Silvia Moreno-Garcia WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Mor - NOVELS SUMMARY: Returning to Mexico City to attend her father's funeral, Meche runs into an old friend, with whom she discovered she could cast spells using music, reviving buried memories that cause her to question her estrangement from her loved ones. |
TITLE: Metalion: The Slayer Mag Diaries
AUTHOR: Jon Kristiansen WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 784.5 Kri SUMMARY: Part anthology, part memoir, and years in the making, Metalion includes over 600 reproduction pages from every issue of Slayer Mag, spanning from the early 1980s through 2010. In addition, author Jon Kristiansen recounts his life’s story, from alienated outsider to central figure in Norwegian black metal, to metal party beast and world-weary metal survivor. |
TITLE: Music Was It: Young Leonard Bernstein
AUTHOR: Susan Goldman Rubin WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Ber SUMMARY: Follows the life of Leonard Bernstein from his childhood in Boston to his first experience conducting the Philharmonic Orchestra in New York at the age of twenty five. |
TITLE: La's Orchestra Saves the World
AUTHOR: Alexander McCall Smith WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC McC - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: Lavender, known as La to her friends, flees London in 1939 hoping to escape the horrors of war and the memories of her shattered marriage, and to combat boredom and despair in her new town, La creates an orchestra that boosts the town's morale and shows people the beauty of music and friendship. |
TITLE: Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
AUTHOR: Oliver Sacks WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 781.11 Sac SUMMARY: Drawing on the individual experiences of patients, musicians, composers, and ordinary people, the author explores the complex human response to music, and how music can affect those suffering from a variety of ailments. |
TITLE: Things Hoped For
AUTHOR: Andrew Clements WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Cle - MYSTERY SUMMARY: Seventeen-year-old Gwen, who has been living with her grandfather in Manhattan while she attends music school, joins up with another music student to solve the mystery when her grandfather suddenly goes missing. |
TITLE: This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
AUTHOR: Daniel J. Levitin WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 781.11 Lev SUMMARY: Drawing on the individual experiences of patients, musicians, composers, and ordinary people, the author explores the complex human response to music, and how music can affect those suffering from a variety of ailments. |
TITLE: All the Stops: The Glorious Pipe Organ and Its American Masters
AUTHOR: Craig R. Whitner WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 786.5 Whi SUMMARY: Presents a history of the American pipe organ from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to the beginning of the 2000s, introduces notable builders and performers, and discusses how public interest in organ music has swelled and ebbed over the years. References Lewis and Clark High School. |
TITLE: Broken Music
AUTHOR: Sting WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Sti SUMMARY: The popular singer discusses his early childhood, adolescence, and rise to success with the Police, detailing personal moments and relationships that shaped his life. |
TITLE: Songbook
AUTHOR: Nick Hornby WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 782.4 Hor SUMMARY: A collection of essays and observations by Nick Hornby that reflect on pop music and its effect on American culture. |
TITLE: Body & Soul
AUTHOR: Frank Conroy WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Con - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: The life of young Claude Rawlings, the son of an eccentric taxi-driver mother, is changed forever in the 1940s when a local music store owner discovers the boy is a piano prodigy. |
TITLE: Born to Run
AUTHOR: Bruce Springsteen WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Spr SUMMARY: In a personal account inspired by the remarkable 2009 Super Bowl halftime show, a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer traces his life from his childhood in a Catholic New Jersey family and the musical experiences that prompted his career to the rise of the E Street Band and the stories behind some of his most famous songs. |