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For a song and a hundred songs : a poet's journey through a Chinese prison / by Liao, Yiwu,1958-(CARDINAL)473439; Huang, Wenguang,1964-(CARDINAL)399419;
Foreword by Herta M�ller -- Preface -- The wandering poet -- Fei Fei -- The poet as a young man -- The river town -- Revolutionary fever -- Massacre -- A xia -- Requiem -- The investigation center -- The arrest -- My accomplices -- The "menu" -- Interrogations -- The Confucian policeman -- Fantasies of escape -- Confess and report on others -- Killing time -- The artist -- Isolation -- The other sex -- Gambler Zhang -- The detention center -- The living dead -- The suicide watch -- The unrelenting sun -- A new neighbor -- Officer Gong -- The model cell -- A preliminary hearing -- The death squad -- Slave labor -- The wife killer -- Dead Chang's departure -- The living dead ponder death -- "A black hand and evil adviser" -- Welcome to Cell 6 -- "Please insert me back into your womb" -- The epileptic -- Chinese New Year -- The woodcutter -- Wang Er's verdict -- A suicide attempt -- The feast of imaginations -- Staging a funeral -- The lunatic -- The jail bully -- The robber -- Return to Cell 5 -- Permission to read -- For a song and one hundred songs -- The trial -- Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun -- Toothpaste -- Prison -- The no. 2 prison -- Unexpected visitors -- The no. 3 prison -- Reform through physical labor -- The 89ers -- The flute teacher -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Massacre -- About the author.From the renowned Chinese poet in exile comes a gorgeous and shocking account of his years in prison following the Tiananmen Square protests.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Liao, Yiwu, 1958-; Prisoners;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison. [sound recording] / by Cash, Johnny,1932-2003.;
Folsom Prison blues --; Busted --; Dark as the dungeon --; I still miss someone --; Cocaine blues --; 25 minutes to go --; Orange blossom special --; The long black veil --; Send a picture of mother --; The wall --; Dirty old egg-suckin' dog --; Flushed from the bathroom of your heart --; Joe Bean --; Jackson; (with June Carter) --; Give my love to Rose; (with June Carter) --; I got stripes --; The legend of John Henry's hammer --; Green, green grass of home --; Greystone Chapel.
Subjects: Ballads, English; Compact discs; Country music; Live sound recordings.; Prisoners' songs;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Ceremonial and war dances [sound recording]
Navahoe boy (Navahoe) -- The prisoner song (Tewa) -- A girl and many boys (Apache) -- Mountain by the sea -- The Mescalero trail (Apache) -- Montana grass song (Sioux) -- Mountain spirit song (Apache) -- Lightning song (Apache) -- Song of the Black Mountain (Papago) -- Song of the green rainbow (Papago) -- Yei-be-chai chant (Navahoe) -- Our father's thoughts (Paiute) -- War dance (Ponca) -- War dance (Taos) -- War dance (Kiowa) - Slow -- War dance (Kiowa) - Fast -- Warrior song (Arikara) -- Honoring song (Sioux) -- Glory song (Navahoe) -- Memorial song (Sioux).
Subjects: Compact Discs; Indian dance; Indians of North America; Indians; Native Americans;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Folk songs / by Sieling, Peter.(CARDINAL)671036;
Includes bibliographical references (page 102) and index.Why do we sing? the meaning of song -- Work and occupational songs: the rhythm of routine -- Love songs: the joy and sorrow of romance -- Spirituals and religious songs: bound for glory -- Protest songs: we shall overcome -- Cowboy and convict songs: from prairies to prisons -- Railroad songs: rhythms in the rails -- Comic songs: laughter and serious singing -- Children's songs: why people shouldn't swallow flies.
Subjects: Folk songs; Singing;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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King's X [sound recording] by King's X (Musical group);
The world around me -- Prisoner -- The big picture -- Lost in Germany -- Chariot song -- Ooh song -- Not just for the dead -- What I know about love -- Black flag -- Dream in my life -- Silent wind.King's X is: Doug Pinnick, Ty Tabor, Jerry Gaskill.Recorded at Rampart Studios, Houston, TX.
Subjects: Rock music;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Tibet in song [videorecording] / by Choephel, Ngawang,1966-; Guge Productions.; New Yorker Films.; New Yorker Video (Firm);
Co-writer, Tara Steele ; editor, Tim Bartlett ; cinematographers, Hugh Walsh ... [et al.] ; co-producers, Yodon Thonden, Tara Steele, Don Thompson ; original music and narration, Ngawang Choephel.In Tibet, a once-sovereign nation for thousands of years, much of the country remains under harsh Communist Chinese rule and "patriotic re-education." The surviving Tibetan folk music shapes an endangered people's identity. Ngawang Choephel, a Tibetan musicologist who fled for India at the age of two, returned home to capture the music of his people. He was arrested and sentenced to eighteen years in prison, serving nearly seven before a highly-publicized release.DVD; 16:9 (4:3 compatible) letterboxed.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Biographical films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Choephel, Ngawang, 1966-; Folk music; Folk songs, Tibetan; Exiles; Political prisoners; Political persecution; Human rights;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Song of survival : women interned / by Colijn, Helen.(CARDINAL)508031;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Colijn, Helen.; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; Women prisoners; Prisoners of war; World War, 1939-1945; Women prisoners of war;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7
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Song yet sung / by McBride, James,1957-(CARDINAL)348169;
A tale set against a backdrop of slave rights conflicts in the nineteenth-century Chesapeake Bay region finds young runaway Liz Spocott inadvertently inspiring a slave breakout from the attic prison of a notorious slave thief.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; African American women; Fugitive slaves; Visions;
Available copies: 37 / Total copies: 49
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Song yet sung / by McBride, James,1957-(CARDINAL)348169;
A tale set against a backdrop of slave rights conflicts in the nineteenth-century Chesapeake Bay region finds young runaway Liz Spocott inadvertently inspiring a slave breakout from the attic prison of a notorious slave thief.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; African American women; Fugitive slaves; Visions;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 2
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Flambards [videorecording] : the complete series / by Clark, Lawrence Gordon,film director.; Lewis, Leonard,film director.; Ferguson, Michael,film director.(CARDINAL)787641; Duffell, Peter,film director.; McKenna, Christine,actor.; Judd, Edward,actor.; Williams, Rosalie,actor.; Grives, Steven,actor.; Peyton, Kathleen,creator.;
Music by David Fanshawe; producer, Leonard Lewis; executive producer, David Cunliffe.Christine McKenna, Rosalie Williams, Steven Grives, Frank Mills, Alan Parnaby, Edward Judd.Christina -- Blooding -- Entry to a new world -- Lady bountiful -- Point to point -- The cold light of day -- The edge of the cloud -- Flying high -- Sing no sad songs -- New blood -- Prisoners of war -- What are servants for? -- Inheritance.In turn-of-the-twentieth-century England, orphaned Christina upsets the male-dominated, class-conscious environment when she is sent to live with her uncle and two male cousins at their decaying country mansion, Flambards.TV rating: Not rated.DVDs, Dolby digital 5.1 surround.
Subjects: Television mini-series.; Television adaptations.; Fiction television programs.; Peyton, K. M.; Orphans; Social classes; Class consciousness; Families; Man-woman relationships; Flambards (England : Imaginary place);
For private home use only.
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 5
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