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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.
Contributor:
Hawkins, Henry (Henry Philip), illustrator.
Zino Press Children's Books, publisher.
Palace Press International, printer.
Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)
Joanna Banks Collection of African American Children's Books (University of Pennsylvania)
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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