Musicians

Put a Song in Your Heart

November 15, 2016 | strande

Music can inspire us during our worst times, or be the backbone of a celebration. Check out some of these stories about the people behind the music, and check the links for where to listen to their tunes.

Little Melba and her big trombone by Katheryn Russell-Brown

A biography of African American musician Melba Doretta Liston, a virtuoso musician who played the trombone and composed and arranged music for many of the great jazz musicians of the twentieth century. Includes afterword, discography, and sources. Her music can be interloaned through MeL.

The music in George's head : George Gershwin creates Rhapsody in blue by Suzanne Slade

With rhythmic swirls of words and pictures, Suzanne Slade and Stacy Innerst beautifully reveal just how brilliantly Gershwin reached inside his head to create his masterpiece, Rhapsody in Blue. It's a surprising and whirlwind composition of notes and sounds and one long wail of a clarinet-dazzling and daring, just like George Gershwin himself!

Creative Lives on Film

June 1, 2016 | SuzyQ
Amy [videodisc]

Examines the life and career of pop singer Amy Winehouse.

Woody Guthrie [videodisc]: Ain't got no home

This film explores Guthrie's creative genius -- his life and music as well as lesser known talents like writing and painting. His music has been recorded by everyone from the Mormon Tabernacle Choir to U2.

Jerome Robbins [videodisc] : something to dance about

Examines the life of the controversial master of the Broadway musical and ballet choreographer Jerome Robbins. Features excerpts from Robbins' work, including never-before-seen rehearsal footage, and interviews with Mikhail Baryshnikov, Jacques d'Amboise, Suzanne Farrell, Arthur Laurents, Peter Martins, Frank Rich, Chita Rivera, Stephen Sondheim, Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harrick, Joseph Stein, and others.

Even More Musical Lives

June 1, 2016 | SuzyQ

Read one of these autobiographies by some of your favorite musicians.

Hunger makes me a modern girl : a memoir by Carrie Brownstein
Light my fire : my life with the Doors by Ray Manzarek

More Musical Lives

June 1, 2016 | SuzyQ

Read one of these autobiographies by some of your favorite musicians.

Waylon : an autobiography by Waylon Jennings
Glow : the autobiography of Rick James by Rick James

Hitmaker, singer, innovator, producer, award-winning pioneer in the fusion of funk groove and rock, the late Rick James collaborated with go-to music biographer David Ritz, in this wildly entertaining and profound expression of a rock star's life and soul.

Musical Lives

June 1, 2016 | SuzyQ

Read one of these autobiographies by some of your favorite musicians.

Unfaithful music & disappearing ink by Elvis Costello
It's a long story : my life by Willie Nelson

Creative Minds

June 1, 2016 | SuzyQ

Writers, musicians, artists, actors, designers, scientists ..... Read about thee creative people from past and present.

The age of genius : the seventeenth century and the birth of the modern mind by A. C Grayling
Your song changed my life : from Jimmy Page to St. Vincent, Smokey Robinson to Hozier, thirty-five beloved artists on their journey and the music that inspired it by Bob Boilen

Canton Seniors Book Discussion: April 23, 2015

February 7, 2015 | madame librarian

Canton Seniors Book Group will meet on Thursday, April 23 from 2:00PM-3:00PM in Canton Public Library's Group Study Room A.  We will be discussing SIGHT READING by Daphne Kalotay. Request a copy from a librarian at the Information Desk.

Sight reading: a novel by Daphne Kalotay

What We're Reading August 2013

August 3, 2013 | madame librarian

Detroit rock city: the uncensored history of rock 'n' roll in America's loudest city by Steve Miller

Super boys: the amazing adventures of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster—-the creators of Superman by Brad Ricca

A man without breath by Philip Kerr

Ace of aces: the life of captain Eddie Rickenbacker by H. Paul Jeffers

Campion [videodisc]: Dancers in mourning by BBC

Behind the Music

November 3, 2012 | madame librarian

Promoters,musicians,songwriters,recording studios...all these people behind the scenes.


Hüsker Dü: the story of the noise-pop pioneers who launched modern rock by Andrew Earles

Here, there and everywhere: my life recording the music of the Beatles by Geoff Emerick and Howard Massey

Lonely avenue: the unlikely life and times of Doc Pomus by Alex Halberstadt

Dream boogie: the triumph of Sam Cooke by Peter Guralnick

Seeing the light: inside the Velvet Underground by Rob Jovanovic

Mitch Ryder at Ypsilanti District Library

June 18, 2012 | madame librarian

Devils & Blue Dresses by Mitch Ryder.    Detroit's own, Mitch Ryder will discuss and sign his autobiography on Thursday, June 21 at 7:00p.m. at Ypsilanti District Library, 5577 Whittaker Road, Ypsilanti, MI.  Ryder will be interviewed by Martin Bandyke of Ann Arbor 107.  A Question and Answer session will follow the interview. Copies of Devils and Blue Dresses will be available for purchase.  The event is free, seating is on a first come, first serve basis.  For more information contact the Ypsilanti District Library.

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