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Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Ten-year-old Grace is in search of a subject for her fifth-grade history project when she learns that her four times-great grandfather once stabbed his lover to death. His grisly act was memorialised in a murder ballad, her aunt tells her, so it must be true. But the lessons of that revelation - to be careful of men, and desire - are not just Grace's to learn. Her family's tangled past is part of a dark legacy in which the lives of generations of...
8) Bob Roberts
Publisher
Artisan Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A satirical comedy in which a British documentary crew follows a radical folksinger (and self-made millionaire) turned senatorial candidate as he blends singing, music videos and scandal on the campaign trail.
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Working in his family appliance story, jazz aficionado Guy Patterson is recruited into the band The Wonders. After Guy injects a Merseybeat rhythm into lead singer Jimmy's ballad, the song's undeniable pop power flings the group into a brief whirlwind of success.
16) Man in the sand
Publisher
Rykopalm : Rykodisc
Pub. Date
[2001]
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 Nora...
