Cremona Violins by 
Glorious Days and Nights by 
Squeeze This! by 
The Words and Music of Jimi Hendrix by 
I, Doll by
The New York Dolls, during and after their all-too brief existence, were a huge influence on David Bowie and Mott the Hoople, KISS and Aerosmith, Guns n' Roses and Mötley Crüe; when they toured England under the supervision of punk impresario Malcolm McLaren, they indirectly caused the formation of the Sex Pistols. Their bassist Arthur "Killer" Kane died suddenly at age 55 in 2004, but he left behind not only the Dolls' timeless music--and their many thousands of fans and friends--but this memoir of the Dolls' early years. Arthur Kane was playing bass for the New York Dolls before there even was a New York Dolls. Along with guitarist Johnny Thunders and drummer Billy Murcia, he founded the band in 1971. The next year they added guitarist Sylvain Sylvain and singer David Johansen--at which point they became famous at Max's Kansas City, rubbed elbows with Andy Warhol and Lou Reed, recorded two landmark albums, unwittingly invented the thing we now call punk rock, and generally lived up to their slogan "Too Much, Too Soon." I, Doll covers in detail the first sixteen months of the Dolls' time on earth, from Kane's first meeting with Thunders to Murcia's tragic death in London. To read it is to revisit a glorious, glamorous era of high drama (drug busts and brawls with bouncers) and low comedy (how Kane locked himself out of his studio one winter night while in full Dolls drag and tripping on LSD). This distinctive and extroverted memoir of an undisciplined showman is supplemented with a foreword and epilogue by Kane's widow, Barbara, bringing his full story to light. Never has there been a rock'n'roll memoir like this one--a book that captures the music, the style, and the life in all its foolhardy glory.
Use the Kent Library Catalog to find books, periodicals (journals, magazines, & newspapers), videos, government documents and other materials.
Keyword searches allow you to use your own words as search terms.
Subject heading searches use Library of Congress subject headings. Some examples for music are:Composition (Music)
Music performance
(name of instrument) performance - e.g. violin performance
Performance practice music(this will bring up this heading, and additional headings divided by century -- 17th Century, 18th Century etc.)Singing
Browse the shelves by call number. Use the Dewey Decimal chart and Library of congress (LC) charts to get you in the right subject areas or try the following:
Dewey Decimal Library of Congress
- 781 General principles & musical forms
- 782 Vocal music
- 783 Music for single voices; the voice
- 784 Instruments & instrumental ensembles
- 785 Ensembles with one instrument per part
- 786 Keyboard & other instruments
- 787 Stringed instruments
- 788 Wind instruments.
LC has three main categories: M - scores and sheet music, ML - music literature/books about music and MT music instruction and study. The chart above is a pdf with a detailed listing of subcategories, some examples are:
- M176 Motion picture music
- M1000-1075 Orchestra music
- M1470-1480 Aleatory music. Electronic music. Mixed media.
- M1495-2199 Vocal music
- ML100-109 Dicionaries. Encyclopedias
- ML3795 Music as a profession. Vocational guidance
- ML3916-3918 Social and political aspects of music
- MT5.5-7 Music Theory
- MT40-67 Composition. Elements and techniques of music
- MT170-810 Instrumental techniques
- MT539 - 654 Plucked instruments
- MT949.5 Whistling
- MT955-956 Musical theater
