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Be a friend : the story of African American music in song, words, and pictures / composed and written by Leotha Stanley ; illustrated by Henry Hawkins.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Joanna Banks Collection ML3556 .S86 1994
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stanley, Leotha, author, composer.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Music--History and criticism--Juvenile literature.
- African Americans.
- Music--United States--History and criticism--Juvenile literature.
- Music.
- African Americans--Music--History and criticism.
- Music--History and criticism.
- African Americans--Music.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Blues (Music)
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Gospel music.
- Juvenile works.
- Rap (Music)
- Spirituals (Songs)
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 48 pages : illustrations, music ; 29 cm + 1 audiocassette (analog, stereo)
- Manufacture:
- Printed in China : Through Palace Press International, San Francisco, California.
- Place of Publication:
- Middleton, Wis. : Zino Press Children's Books, 1994.
- Summary:
- Book and cassette include chapters on spirituals, blues, jazz, gospel, and rap music; 8 original songs and arrangements; colorful illustrations and historical photographs; and uplifting messages about friendship, honesty, and self-respect.
- Contents:
- Great day / arrangement by Leotha Stanley
- School blues ; Brain power ; Friend indeed ; Be a friend ; Just say no / words and music by Leotha Stanley
- We shall overcome / arrangement by Leotha Stanley
- Attitude adjustment / words and music by Leotha Stanley.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy imperfect: audiocassette wanting.
- ISBN:
- 1559331534
- 9781559331531
- OCLC:
- 30896299
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