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Here are a few #NewBooks in the @nypl_lpa Circulating Collection. Drop in & check them out! Literally. You can take them home with you. The Circulating Collection hours are
Mon-Sat 10:30-6 (we will be closed on Monday, February 21st). #ReadAboutMusic #LibrariesAreCool
Do you like to listen to an artist’s work in chronological order as you read a biography about them? Yeah, us too. At Sweet Vinyl we’ll carry all sorts of music-related titles, so you can geek out along with us.
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As the @nypl, including the @nypl_lpa, prepares to expand access, here's a few books in the Music Division that you can come look at. Appointments are still necessary in Research, but the Circulating Collection will be open for browsing, etc. on 7/6! #NewBooks #ReadAboutMusic
Friday Reads: Managing Librarian Rebecca Littman sat in on a discussion through @brooklynhistory with authors Erik Nielson & Andrea L Dennis about "Rap on Trial: Race, Lyrics, & Guilt in America." Avail. as an ebook https://t.co/qAK2tr37Fn
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Friday Reads-M&RS volunteer Tamar Barzel recommends Elijah Wald's "Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson & the Invention of the Blues" to mark Johnson's birth OTD in 1911. E-book available through 3 e-book apps. Details https://t.co/SbHQ3Z5yed
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FridayReads: "They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us," essays by Hanif Abdurraqib. TWO Music & Recorded Sound staff members give it props - Clare McCormick, Admin Assist, & Librarian Dave McMullin. Available as an e-book through all *3* apps! @nypl_lpa #FridayReads #ReadAboutMusic
Friday Reads: Channan Willner, Collections Librarian for Music & Recorded Sound, is reading Elizabeth Margulis' On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind. Available from Oxford U Press @nypl_lpa #FridayReads #ReadAboutMusic details in our Remote Research Guide https://t.co/DaRm7s9bKb
Friday Reads: an e-book recommendation as prep for the 2021 Lou Reed exhibit continues, albeit hampered by telecommuting "Lou Reed: The Last Inteview & Other Conversations" available from our ebook collection. details https://t.co/SbHQ3Z5yed @nypl_lpa #FridayReads #ReadAboutMusic
Think the "Historical Performance Practice" movement started in the 20th C? Think again. This review dated Feb 16, 1789 refers to Purcell (1659-1695) as "Ancient Music." Find more like this in our databases @nypl_lpa #ReadAboutMusic #MusicHistoryisCool https://t.co/LGe0bIMxs1
Friday Reads: In honor of International Women's Day this weekend we're looking at Swing shift : "all-girl" bands of the 1940s by Sherrie Tucker. Published in 2000, it's great look at little known artists. @nypl_lpa #ReadAboutMusic #WomensDay #WomensHistoryMonth #FridayReads
New Books at the LPA - copies are available in both the Circulating and Research collections. #JoniMitchell, #BuddyHolly, & #MichaelBloomfield. @nypl_lpa #ReadAboutMusic #NewBooks #LibrariesAreCool
Sláinte Mhath! Happy Burns Day! The Scots poet & lyricist was born on 25th January 1759. The Drexel Collection includes James Johnson's 1787 "Scots Musical Museum in 6 Volumes" containing several of Burns' pieces. @nypl_lpa @nypl #MusicalTreasures #ReadAboutMusic
Born this day in 1833, Joseph Drexel, whose 6000 volumes of music-related materials form the kernel of what is now the Music Division of the Library for the Performing Arts. Scores, books & more dating from the 15th C until his death in 1888. @nypl @nypl_lpa #ReadAboutMusic
Friday Reads: Anthony MacDonald, NYPL Orchestra Librarian, is reading Enrique Granados: Poet of the Piano by Walter Aaron Clark. "An easily readable, but scholarly, approach to Granados' life & music" @nypl_lpa #FridayReads #ReadAboutMusic
Friday Reads! The Beatles Through a Glass Onion: Reconsidering the White Album. Edited by Mark Osteen. A collection of essays by remarkable scholars exploring the album in its entirety. Call # *LE 19-2920 @nypl_lpa #ReadAboutMusic #FridayReads
Friday Reads: today we're gathering ideas for outreach to music library patrons from the Music Library Association's "Outreach for Music Librarians" edited by Scott Stone. Lots of great ideas! @nypl_lpa @musiclibassoc #ReadAboutMusic #FridayReads #MusicLibrariesAreCool
Friday Reads: Rethinking American Music, a survey of music scholarship through 4 areas: impact of performance; patronage's role; personal identity; and how cultural & ethnographic circumstances affect what music emerges. Call # JNE 19-121 #ReadAboutMusic @nypl_lpa #FridayReads
Friday Reads: Robert Christgau's "Book Reports: A Music Critic on his First Love, which was Reading"- a collection of his essays/reviews of books, some music-related, but many not. Available in Circ (780.904 C) and Research (JME 19-283). @nypl_lpa #FridayReads #ReadAboutMusic
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