A Drummer’s Dream
2010, DVD, color, 85 min.
Distributed by Argot Pictures
Produced by Kent Martin
Recommended with Reservations
Subjects: Music, Drumming, Percussion, Canada
Date Entered:08/22/12
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Ain’t In It for My Health – A Film About Levon Helm
2010, DVD , color, 83 min.
Distributed by Kino Lorber Edu, 333 West 39 St, Suite 503, New York, NY 10018; 212-629-6880
Produced by Mary Posatko and Ren Segna
Recommended
Subjects: Popular Music, The Band, Bob Dylan, Amy Helm, Larry Campbell, Americana, Woodstock, Levon Helm Band
Date Entered:09/19/13
Calypso Rose – The Lioness of the Jungle
2011, DVD, color, 85 min.
Distributed by Women Make Movies, 462 Broadway, New York, NY 10013; 212-925-0606
Produced by Jean-Michel Gibert, Thierry Planelle, and Philippe Djivas
Highly Recommended
Subjects: Music, Gender Studies, Race Studies, Women Studies, Calypso, Ethnomusicology, Popular Music
Date Entered:08/03/12
Charles Wuorinen: Eighth Symphony (Theologoumena), Fourth Piano Concerto
2016, Audio CD, 59 min. 34 sec.
Distributed by Bridge Records, Inc., 200 Clinton Ave., New Rochelle, NY 10801
Produced by David Starobin
Recommended
Subjects: American Music, 21st Century Composers, Piano Concertos, Symphonies
Date Entered:10/18/16
Dare to Drum
2015, DVD , color, 85 min.
Distributed by Ten Ears Productions, 1434 Sereno Dr., Dallas, TX 75218
Produced by John Bryant
Recommended with reservations
Subjects: Music, Stewart Copeland, D’Drum, Jaap van Zweden, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Percussion, Gamelan Music
Date Entered:10/27/15
David Tudor: Bandoneon ! (a combine)
2010, DVD, color, 38 min.
Distributed by Microcinema International/Microcinema DVD, 1636 Bush St., Suite #2, SF, CA 94109; 415-447-9750
Produced by Julie Martin
Recommended
Subjects: Music, Experimental Music, Electronic Music
Date Entered:06/04/10
Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone
2011, DVD, color, 108 min.
Distributed by Cinema Guild, 115 West 30th Street, Suite 800, New York, NY 10001; 212-685-6242
Produced by Lev Anderson & Chris Metzler
Recommended with reservations
Subjects: Music, Punk Rock, Race Studies, Popular Music, Alternative Music
Date Entered:02/15/12
Greenwich Village: Music that Defined a Generation
2013, DVD , color, 92 min.
Distributed by Kino Lorber Edu, 333 West 39 St, Suite 503, New York, NY 10018; 212-629-6880
Produced by Laura Archibald, Joe Cecala (Executive Producer), Nicolas Kleiman, Rob Lindsay and Kevin Wallis
Highly Recommended
Subjects: Folk Music, Popular Music, American History, Social and Political Unrest, Greenwich Village, New York City, Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Suze Rotolo
Date Entered:07/11/13
I Dream of Wires
2014, DVD, color, 96 min.
Distributed by First Run Features, 630 Ninth Avenue, Suite 1213, New York, NY 10036; 212-243-0600
Produced by Robert Fattinatto and Jason Amm
Highly Recommended
Subjects: Electronic Music, Modular Synthesizers, Rock Music, Acid House Music, Experimental Music
Date Entered:09/15/15
Intermediate Masterworks for Marimba
2009, CD, color, 99 min.
Distributed by Bridge Records, Inc., 200 Clinton Ave., New Rochelle, NY 10801
Produced by Nancy Zeltsman
Highly Recommended
Subjects: Music, Marimba Music
Date Entered:03/29/10
International Sweethearts of Rhythm: America’s Hottest All Girl Band
2007, DVD, color, 105 min.
Distributed by Jezebel Productions, PO Box 1348, New York, NY 10011
Produced by G. Schiller and A. Weiss
Highly Recommended
Subjects: Music, Swing, Jazz, Gender Studies, Women in Music
Date Entered:02/18/11
Is it Sweet?
2015, DVD, color, 50 min.
Distributed by Third World Newsreel, 545 Eighth Avenue, Suite 550, New York, NY 10018; 212-947-9277
Produced by Rab Bakari, Dzino, and Saskia Koebschall
Not Recommended
Subjects: Hip Hop, Popular Music, Ghana, Ghanian Americans, New York
Date Entered:06/06/16
Riot Acts: Flaunting Gender Deviance in Music Performance
2011, DVD, color, 72 min.
Distributed by Outcast Films, 652 W. 163rd Street #45, New York, NY 10032
Produced by Simon Strikeback & Madsen Minax
Recommended
Subjects: Music, Transgender Studies, Gender Studies, LGBT Studies, Indie Rock, Punk Rock, Folk Music, Popular Music
Date Entered:12/07/11
Romantic Warriors II: A Progressive Music Saga about Rock in Opposition
2012, DVD , color, 98 min.
Distributed by Zeitgeist Media, 301 Potter Lane, Rockville, MD 20850; 240-505-8696
Produced by Adele Schmidt and José Zegarra Holder
Highly Recommended
Subjects: Music, Rock Music, Progressive Rock, Avant Progressive, Post Rock, Art Rock, Popular Music
Date Entered:02/07/13
Romantic Warriors III: Canterbury Tales
2015, DVD , color, 116 min.
Distributed by Zeitgeist Media, 301 Potter Lane, Rockville, MD 20850; 240-505-8696
Produced by Adele Schmidt and José Zegarra Holder
Highly Recommended
Subjects: Music, Rock Music, Progressive Rock, Avant Progressive, Post Rock, Art Rock, Popular Music
Date Entered:07/01/15
Romantic Warriors: A Progressive Music Saga
2010, DVD, color, 95 min.
Distributed by Zeitgeist Media, 301 Potter Lane, Rockville, MD 20850; 240-505-8696
Produced by Adele Schmidt and José Zegarra Holder
Recommended
Subjects: Music, Rock Music, Progressive Rock, Art Rock, Popular Music
Date Entered:03/10/11
Speaking in Code
2008, DVD, color, 98 min.
Distributed by Microcinema International/Microcinema DVD, 1636 Bush St., Suite #2, SF, CA 94109; 415-447-9750
Produced by David Day
Highly Recommended
Subjects: Music, Electronic Music, Popular Music, Techno Music
Date Entered:09/20/10
The Other Side of the Water: The Journey of a Haitian Rara Band in Brooklyn
2010, DVD, color, 52 min.
Distributed by Third World Newsreel, 545 Eighth Avenue, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10018; 212-947-9277
Produced by Magali Damas
Highly Recommended
Subjects: Rara Festival, Folk music, Haiti, Haitians and Haitian Americans, Brooklyn, New York
Date Entered:08/08/11
The Whole Gritty City
2014, DVD , color, 89 min.
Distributed by Alexander Street Press, 350 7th Ave/Ste 1100, New York, NY 10001
Produced by Richard Barber & Jim Browne
Highly Recommended
Subjects: Music, Race Relations, Marching Bands, Adolescents, Criminal Justice
Date Entered:05/19/15
Theory of Obscurity – A Film about The Residents
2015, DVD , color, 87 min.
Distributed by Film Movement
Produced by Barton Bishoff, Don Hardy Jr., and Josh Keppel
Recommended
Subjects: Music, Art Rock, Video Art, Popular Music, Alternative Music
Date Entered:12/19/17
Todd P Goes to Austin
2010, DVD, color, 68 min.
Distributed by Microcinema International/Microcinema DVD, 1636 Bush St., Suite #2, SF, CA 94109; 415-447-9750
Produced by Otto Arsenault and Taylor Cohen
Recommended
Subjects: Music, Indie Rock, Popular Music
Date Entered:01/07/11
Towncraft – Notes from a Local Scene
2007, DVD, color, 104 min.
Distributed by Microcinema International/Microcinema DVD, 2169 Folsom Street, Suite M101, San Francisco, CA 94110; 415-447-9750
Produced by Richard Matson and Albert Lai
Recommended
Subjects: Music, Indie Rock, Punk Rock, Popular Music
Date Entered:06/13/11
Viramundo: A Musical Journey with Gilberto Gil
2013, DVD, color, 93 min.
Distributed by Cinema Guild, 115 West 30th Street, Suite 800, New York, NY 10001; 212-685-6242
Produced by Frédéric Corvez, Clément Duboin, and Emmanuel Gétaz
Recommended with reservations
Subjects: Music, Brazil, Australia, South Africa, Globalization, Transculturation
Date Entered:02/23/15