Amazing grace
(DVD)
Contributors
Published
Silver Spring, MD : Athena : Acorn Media, ©2011.
Format
DVD
ISBN
9781598285642, 1598285645
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 viewer's guide (8 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 15 cm)
Status
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Headquarters Library - Adult Video | DVD 782.27 AMA 2011 | In |
Tower Road Branch - Adult Video | DVD 782.27 AMA 2011 | In |
Subjects
LC Subjects
Amazing grace (Hymn)
Documentary films.
Feature films.
Folk singers -- United States -- Biography.
Folk singers -- United States -- Interviews.
Gospel music.
Hymns, English -- History and criticism.
Hymns, English.
Newton, John, -- 1725-1807.
Seeger, Pete, -- 1919-2014.
Shape-note singing.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Documentary films.
Feature films.
Folk singers -- United States -- Biography.
Folk singers -- United States -- Interviews.
Gospel music.
Hymns, English -- History and criticism.
Hymns, English.
Newton, John, -- 1725-1807.
Seeger, Pete, -- 1919-2014.
Shape-note singing.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
OCLC Fast Subjects
Amazing grace (Hymn)
Biographies.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Documentary films.
Feature films.
Interviews.
Newton, John, -- 1725-1807. -- https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJvmKPb889bqvWvvMCPvpP
Seeger, Pete, -- 1919-2014. -- https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJyGT8gcxJ9thDky737j4q
United States. -- https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Biographies.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Documentary films.
Feature films.
Interviews.
Newton, John, -- 1725-1807. -- https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJvmKPb889bqvWvvMCPvpP
Seeger, Pete, -- 1919-2014. -- https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJyGT8gcxJ9thDky737j4q
United States. -- https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
More Details
Published
Silver Spring, MD : Athena : Acorn Media, ©2011.
Language
English
ISBN
9781598285642, 1598285645
UPC
054961856497
Notes
General Note
Originally aired on PBS in 1990.
General Note
Includes the documentary Pure Pete Seeger, originally broadcast in 1994 as a segment of the television program Bill Moyers' journal, in which Moyers interviews and provides a musical portrait of the (then) 75 year old folk singer and activist Pete Seeger.
General Note
Viewer's guide includes articles on the inspiration for the program, the song's lyrics, shape-note singing, and facts about the song inserted in container.
Creation/Production Credits
Principal sound, Peter Miller ; photography, Gary Steele, Greg Andracke ; executive producers, Judith Davidson Moyers, Bill Moyers.
Participants/Performers
Judy Collins, Jean Ritchie, shape-note singers of Holly Springs, Geo., Dewey Williams, Jessye Norman, Johnny Cash, Marion Williams, the Boys' Choir of Harlem, et al. ; words of John Newton read by Jeremy Irons.
Description
Bill Moyers tells the story of this song, one of the most popular pieces of music in the English language, through the people who have sung it. He also tells the story of John Newton, once the captain of an English slave ship, who came to faith after surviving a storm at sea in the eighteenth century and wrote the lyrics which across distances of time and culture have become, when set to music, a courier of the spirit to millions of people.
Target Audience
MPAA rating: Not rated.
System Details
DVD, NTSC, Region 1, full screen, 4:3 aspect ratio, Dolby digital.
Language
In English. Subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).
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Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Moyers, B. D., Mannes, E., Marino, D., & Moyers, J. D. (2011). Amazing grace . Athena : Acorn Media.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Bill D. Moyers et al.. 2011. Amazing Grace. Athena : Acorn Media.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Bill D. Moyers et al.. Amazing Grace Athena : Acorn Media, 2011.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Moyers, Bill D., Elena Mannes, Donna Marino, and Judith Davidson Moyers. Amazing Grace Athena : Acorn Media, 2011.
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