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Music: (Some) Biography/Memoirs available through Standish

Resources available to assist with the FYS: Music course.

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The Words and Music of Ice Cube by Gail Hilson Woldu
Call Number: e-book, click title to access
ISBN: 9780275990435
Publication Date: 2008-10-30
Bluegrass Generation by Neil V. Rosenberg
Call Number: e-book, click title to access
ISBN: 9780252041761
Publication Date: 2018-05-10
Take Another Little Piece of My Heart by Pamela Des Barres; Michael Des Barres (Foreword by)
Call Number: e-book, click title to access
ISBN: 9781556528002
Publication Date: 2008-09-01
Right to the Juke Joint by Patrick B. Mullen
Call Number: e-book, click title to access
ISBN: 9780252041648
Publication Date: 2018-05-04
Prince: Life and Times by Jason Draper
ISBN: 9780785834977
Publication Date: 2016-11-01
Coltrane by Ben Ratliff
Call Number: ML419.C645 R37 2007
ISBN: 9780374126063
Publication Date: 2007-09-18
Nerd Girl Rocks Paradise City by Anne Thomas Soffee
Call Number: e-book, click title to access
ISBN: 9781556525865
Publication Date: 2005-09-28
The Dave Matthews Band by Morgan Delancey
Call Number: ML421.D38 D45 1998
ISBN: 9781550223422
Publication Date: 1998-03-01
This Is All a Dream We Dreamed by David Gans; Blair Jackson
Call Number: ML421.G72 J33 2015
ISBN: 9781250058560
Publication Date: 2015-11-10
Just Lucky I Guess by Carol Channing
Call Number: PN2287.C494 A3 2002
ISBN: 0743216067
Publication Date: 2002-10-08
George Gershwin by Larry Starr
Call Number: ML410.G288 S73 2011
ISBN: 9780300111842
Publication Date: 2010-12-14
Inside the Whimsy Works by Jimmy Johnson; Greg Ehrbar (Editor); Didier Ghez (Editor); Grey Johnson (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9781626740044
Publication Date: 2014-01-21

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Riding the Waves by Leo Leroy Beranek
Call Number: e-book, click title to access
ISBN: 9780262026291
Publication Date: 2008-01-18
Bird Lives! by Ross Russell
Call Number: ML419.P4 R9 1996
ISBN: 0306806797
Publication Date: 1996-03-22
Duke by Terry Teachout
Call Number: ML410.E44 T38 2013
ISBN: 9781592407491
Publication Date: 2013-10-17
Pops by Terry Teachout
Call Number: ML419.A75 T43 2009
ISBN: 9780151010899
Publication Date: 2009-12-02
I'm with the Band by Pamela Des Barres; Dave Navarro (Foreword by)
Call Number: e-book, click title to access
ISBN: 9781556525896
Publication Date: 2005-10-28
Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen
Call Number: ML420.S77 A3 2016
ISBN: 9781501141515
Publication Date: 2016-09-27
Ella Fitzgerald by Stuart Nicholson
Call Number: ML420.F52 N5 2004
ISBN: 0415971195
Publication Date: 2004-06-17
Aaron Copland by Howard Pollack
Call Number: ML410.C756 P6 1999
ISBN: 9780252069000
Publication Date: 2000-03-08
The Man That Got Away by Walter Rimler
Call Number: ML410.A76 R56 2015
ISBN: 9780252039461
Publication Date: 2015-08-20
Check It While I Wreck It by Gwendolyn D. Pough
Call Number: E185.86 .P666 2004
ISBN: 9781555536084
Publication Date: 2004-05-27
The Melody Man by Bruce Bastin; Kip Lornell (As told to)
Call Number: e-book, click title to access
ISBN: 9781617032769
Publication Date: 2012-07-02
Hal Wallis by Bernard F. Dick
Call Number: e-book, click title to access
ISBN: 9780813159515
Publication Date: 2014-10-17

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Call Number: ML419.J7 A3 2001
ISBN: 0385488963
Publication Date: 2001-10-09
Love Him Madly by Judy Huddleston; Pamela Des Barres (Foreword by)
Call Number: e-book, click title to access
ISBN: 9781613747506
Publication Date: 2013-06-01
Hendrix on Hendrix by Steven Roby
Call Number: e-book, click title to access
ISBN: 9781613743225
Publication Date: 2012-10-01
Lick Me by Cherry Vanilla; Rufus Wainwright (Foreword by)
Call Number: e-book, click title to access
ISBN: 9781556529436
Publication Date: 2010-11-01
Bob Dylan by Lee Marshall
Call Number: ML420.D98 M168 2007
ISBN: 9780745636429
Publication Date: 2007-09-24
Scars of Sweet Paradise by Alice Echols
Call Number: ML420.J77 E25 1999
ISBN: 0805053875
Publication Date: 1999-03-17
Get Happy by Gerald Clarke
Call Number: ML420.G253 C58 2000
ISBN: 0375503781
Publication Date: 2000-03-28
Doo-Dah! by Ken Emerson
Call Number: ML410.F78 E46 1997
ISBN: 0684810107
Publication Date: 1997-05-07
Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music? by Gregory Thornbury
Call Number: ML420.N7363 A3 2018
ISBN: 9781101907078
Publication Date: 2018-03-20
Here Comes the Night by Joel Selvin
Call Number: e-book, click title to access
ISBN: 9781619023024
Publication Date: 2014-04-15
Norman Granz by Oscar Peterson (Foreword by); Tad Hershorn
Call Number: e-book, click title to access
ISBN: 9780520267824
Publication Date: 2011-10-17
We're Going to See the Beatles! by Mark Lapidos (Introduction by); Sid Bernstein (Foreword by); Garry Berman
Call Number: e-book, click title to access
ISBN: 9781595800329
Publication Date: 2008-04-01