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  1. Entertainment 1 (1997 Video)

    Producer
    Elaine Sharp
    Subject
    History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 55 min., 1999 sale: £10.99 (inclusive)

    Uses newsreel footage from British Pathé to illustrate changes in the way leisure time has been spent during the 20th century. Looks at popular music, including Elvia Presley, the growth of cinema and...

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  2. Power to the People: British Music Videos 1966-2016 (2018)

    aka: British Music Video 1966-2016

    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 900 minutes), £32.99

    This DVD collection, which contains 200 of the most influential music videos produced in Britain, is the result of a three-year university research project in partnership with the British Library and the...

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  3. Piano Notes with Ronald Brautigam (2013)

    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 83 minutes), £9.99

    Ronald Brautigam, internationally respected musician, presents a history of piano music. Brautigam discusses and performs a specific piano piece from composers including Scarlatti, JS Bach, Haydn,...

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  4. Can we Afford the Doctor? (1986 Video)

    Director
    Marilyn Wheatcroft
    Producer
    Sharon Goulds
    Subject
    History; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 75 min.

    An entertainment in music hall style that looks at memories of health care before there was a health service. Records the research, writing, rehearsal and performance by the Age Exchange Theatre Company in...

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  5. Visual Culture of ‘Glam’ Rock: Fashion, Music, Media (1999 Multimedia)

    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, 30 slides., 2000 sale: £38.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    An introduction to the visual culture of ‘glam’ rock, looking at the historical background to the development of the style and its relationship with other subcultures. Examines clothing, make-up, hair...

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  6. Dmitri Shostakovich: Sonata for Viola (2005)

    Subject
    Music; Russian studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0, 75 minutes), £16.99

    Banned in the USSR until 1985, Sonata for Viola documents the life of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich. In addition to being a portrait of a musical genius, the film bears witness to the joy of modern...

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  7. Polka (1986 Video)

    aka: Polka: Roots of Conjunto Accoridion Playing in South Texas

    Director
    Robert Boozajer Flaes; Maarten Rens
    Subject
    Anthropology; Music
    Distribution
    Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 2000 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Compares the accordion music of Chicano immigrants in southern Texas with the traditional music of accordion players in Austria. Without making any final judgements on the roots of ‘conjunto’ music of...

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  8. Maner of Dauncynge, The (1980 Video)

    Director
    Peter Coltman
    Producer
    Peter Coltman
    Subject
    Dance; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1999 sale: £20.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Illustrates English dances from the 16th to the early 18th century, and demonstrates the two basic steps - the simple and the double - and how they are used in a variety of dances. Aims to encourage viewers...

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  9. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Retreat to Romanticism (1993 Video)

    Subject
    Music; Philosophy
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Rousseau’s career in Paris begun as a music critic and composer. Maurice Cranston discusses how Rousseau’s theories on music led to his developing a whole new philosophical approach away from the...

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  10. All You Need is Love: The Story of Popular Music (Complete) (2009)

    Director
    Tony Palmer
    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0, 885 minutes), £6.99 (per volume) £50.99 (set)

    All 17 episodes of Tony Palmer’s series, which looked in detail at popular music throughout the 20th century up until the mid 1970s. The series encompasses ragtime, blues, jazz, vaudeville, musicals, folk,...

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