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This library of arts and music videos features This or That (a burlesque game show), the Coffee House TV arts program, punk bands from Punkcast and live performances from Groove TV. Many of these movies are available for free download.
Streaming Videos, Individual Composers, Themes, and Topics
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What is Napster?,
Napster as Strange Idea,
Early Internet,
Shawn Fanning,
Downloading Music,
Dropping College,
Work on Napster,
Napster's Technical Achievement,
Social Importance of Music,
Napster's Achievement,
History of Music Industry,
Digital Music,
Spread of Napster,
Napster Atmosphere,
Scaling Servers,
Legal Position,
Negotiations with Music Industry,
Colleges Ban Napster,
Musicians' Views of Napster,
Boosting Independent Bands,
Adulation,
Legal Battle,
Perspectives on Napster,
Metallica and Napster,
Accusation of Hypocrisy,
Judiciary Committee Hearing,
Gene Kan,
Senate Committee's Outlook,
Power Struggle,
Legal Setback,
Sean Parker's Memo,
Stay of Injunction,
Appeals Court Hearing,
Bertelsmann,
Debating Sincerity,
Court Defeat,
Napster Loses Heart,
Inadequate Filters,
Bankruptcy,
Piracy Fight Backfires,
Music Industry Declines,
iTunes,
Snocap Failure,
Fanning and Parker,
Culture, Technology and Change,
Cofounders Reflect on Napster,
Epilogue: Downloaded.
History of Electronic Music
Artists and fans talk about how this DJ driven genre started in the "Disco Fever" era.
Last Shop Standing: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of the Independent Record Shop -
Music Retailer Reflections,
Rise of the Independent Record Shop,
Punk Rock Movement,
Decline of the Independent Record Shop,
Illegal Downloading Revolution,
Closing Doors,
Rebirth,
Record Store Day,
Vinyl Revival,
Future of Independent Record Stores,
Resource for Music Aficionados.
Streaming Videos: Series
Early Musical Instruments Series. 6 episodes.
The ancestors to modern instruments are described and demonstrated by the Early Music Consort of London. Narrated by David Munrow. 6-part series, 30 minutes each.
Brass, Keyboard and Percussion, Bowed, Plucked, Flutes and Whistles, and Reed Instruments.
The History of Musical Instruments. 13 episodes.
This outstanding 13-part series discusses modern musical instruments in elaborate detail. Each program focuses on a different instrument—its origin, history, how it is made, how it works. Viewers visit factories and watch as expert craftsmen construct each instrument. Performances on both the original version of the instrument and its modern counterpart illustrate its use by composers over time. 13-part series, 28 minutes each.
Making Moonshine: Country Music—All You Need Is Love: A History of Popular Music
This film features the establishment of country music and its bluegrass and folk roots. The following artists are featured: Jimmie Rodgers; Minnie Pearl; Ernest Tubb; Roy Acuff; Roy Rogers; Tex Ritter; Bill Anderson; Doug Kershaw; William Ivey.
Music in Time. 16 episodes.
From pre-Gregorian to postmodern, this series covers the major periods, styles, forms, composers, and works in the entire span of Western music with superb performances and authoritative narration. Ever unhurried, viewers are permitted to relish entire compositions and generous excerpts from representative period music performed by world-acclaimed artists, orchestras, conductors, operas, and ballet companies around the world. James Galway is the series host. 16-part series, 58–61 minutes each.
Streaming media (Films on Demand)
Feature Films in DVD (one week loan) - Partial List
8 mile by Grazer, Brian
Jimmy, known to his friends as Rabbit, is a young man trying to make his way out of the burned-out shell of inner-city Detroit. Rabbit is a white kid trying to make music in a predominantly African-American community and culture. After Rabbit freezes up in the midst of an MC battle, he's convinced he's missed his chance and that he's doomed to lead a marginal life as a factory rat for the rest of his days. With the help of his friends, and his new girlfriend Alex, Rabbit struggles to work up the courage and the confidence to take one more shot at making his dream a reality.
Low down by Preiss, Jeff
Based on the memoir by Amy-Jo Albany, it is a compassionate, tender look at the complex relationship between Amy-Jo and her father, legendary jazz musician Joe Albany, a man torn between his musical ambition, his devotion to his teenage daughter, and his suffocating heroin addiction. Set against a sensuously textured 1970s Hollywood, the film beautifully evokes a colorful, seedy world of struggling musicians, artists, and vagabonds.
The Phantom of the Opera by Lloyd Webber, Andrew
Tells the story of a disfigured musical genius who haunts the catacombs beneath the Paris Opera, waging a reign of terror over its occupants. When he falls fatally in love with Christine, the Phantom devotes himself to creating a new star for the Opera, exerting a strange sense of control over the young soprano as he nurtures her extraordinary talents.
Whiplash by Chazelle, Damien, 1985-
Andrew Neyman is an ambitious young jazz drummer, single-minded in his pursuit to rise to the top of his elite East coast music conservatory. Plagued by the failed writing career of his father, Andrew hungers day and night to become one of the greats. Terence Fletcher, an instructor equally known for his teaching talents as for his terrifying methods, leads the top jazz ensemble in the school. Fletcher discovers Andrew and transfers the aspiring drummer into his band.
