Songs For The Spirits
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Author | : Barley Norton |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2010-10-01 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0252092007 |
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Songs for the Spirits examines the Vietnamese practice of communing with spirits through music and performance. During rituals dedicated to a pantheon of indigenous spirits, musicians perform an elaborate sequence of songs--a "songscape"--for possessed mediums who carry out ritual actions, distribute blessed gifts to disciples, and dance to the music's infectious rhythms. Condemned by French authorities in the colonial period and prohibited by the Vietnamese Communist Party in the late 1950s, mediumship practices have undergone a strong resurgence since the early 1990s, and they are now being drawn upon to promote national identity and cultural heritage through folklorized performances of rituals on the national and international stage. By tracing the historical trajectory of traditional music and religion since the early twentieth century, this groundbreaking study offers an intriguing account of the political transformation and modernization of cultural practices over a period of dramatic and often turbulent transition. An accompanying DVD contains numerous video and music extracts that illustrate the fascinating ways in which music evokes the embodied presence of spirits and their gender and ethnic identities.
Author | : Victoria Brehm |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780984334001 |
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Presents a collection of folklore, poetry, speeches, songs, fiction, personal narratives, essays, and non-fiction prose by members of the Great Lakes Native nations.
Author | : Sarah Lark |
Publisher | : AmazonCrossing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Canterbury (N.Z. : Provincial District) |
ISBN | : 9781477807675 |
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"Lark recounts...the sometimes peaceful, sometimes uneasy relationship between the Maori natives and the pakeha--the colonists. And the land, which can be rocky and formidable and also breathtakingly beautiful, is as much a character as anyone else." --Historical Novel Society New Zealand, 1893: William Martyn is better educated and more cultivated than the other men breaking their backs searching for gold near Queenstown. William is the son of landed Irish nobility, and he comes to town ready to invest in the best equipment. On his search for supplies, he encounters spirited and beautiful young Elaine O'Keefe, who promptly falls in love with him. He is captivated by her charms until Kura, Elaine's half-Maori cousin, comes to visit. William succumbs at once to Kura's exotic beauty and free-spiritedness, and tension develops not only between the two cousins but also between the colonial settlers and their Maori neighbors.
Author | : Kristy Daldegan Hewitt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2020-08-16 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781715345112 |
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Poems written in spirit, by a medium. About the self, spirituality and life.
Author | : Tehanetorens |
Publisher | : 7th Generation |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2020-08-19 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1939053528 |
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Long ago, when the birds had no songs, only man could sing. When the Great Spirit walked on the Earth, he noticed a great silence. He realized the birds had no songs. He devised a challenge and told the birds who ever could fly the highest, would receive a very beautiful song. But not all the birds were honest. In his desire to win the game, the small hermit thrush jumped on the back of the great eagle. The eagle flew higher than any of the birds, but when he came back to land, the Great Spirit said the hermit thrush had gone the highest since he was on eagle’s back. Hermit Thrush was awarded a beautiful song, but in his shame for not being honest, he flew into the deep woods. To this day, you may hear the lovely song of the hermit thrush, but you may not ever see him.
Author | : Nisha Heath |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 15 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780975602249 |
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Author | : David Mallett |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1997-04-11 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0064434818 |
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‘Inch by Inch, Row by Row, Gonna Make This Garden Grow!' This picture book version of a favorite popular song charts the faithful progress of a young boy who overcomes every obstacle'rock and weeds and a hungry old crow'and makes his garden overflow with bounty. Included are the song lyrics set to music for guitar and piano. An Alternate Selection of Children's Book-of-the-Month Club
Author | : Sarah Lark |
Publisher | : Amazon Crossing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Female friendship |
ISBN | : 9781612184265 |
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Helen Davenport, governess for a wealthy London household, spots an advertisement seeking young women to marry New Zealand's honorable bachelors and begins correspondence with a gentleman farmer. When her church offers to pay her travels under an unusual arrangement, she jumps at the opportunity. On the ship, she meets Gwyneira Silkham, traveling to meet a New Zealand baron who won her in a game of blackjack. When their new husbands turn out to be very different than expected, the women must help one another find the life they'd hoped for.
Author | : David Cloutier |
Publisher | : Copper Beach Books |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Vaddey Ratner |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2017-04-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1476795800 |
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This “novel of extraordinary humanity” (Madeleine Thien, author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing) from New York Times bestselling author Vaddey Ratner reveals “the endless ways that families can be forged and broken hearts held” (Chicago Tribune) as a young woman begins an odyssey to discover the truth about her missing father. Leaving the safety of America, Teera returns to Cambodia for the first time since her harrowing escape as a child refugee. She carries a letter from a man who mysteriously signs himself as “the Old Musician” and claims to have known her father in the Khmer Rouge prison where he disappeared twenty-five years ago. In Phnom Penh, Teera finds a society still in turmoil, where perpetrators and survivors of unfathomable violence live side by side, striving to mend their still beloved country. She meets a young doctor who begins to open her heart, confronts her long-buried memories, and prepares to learn her father’s fate. Meanwhile, the Old Musician, who earns his modest keep playing ceremonial music at a temple, awaits Teera’s visit. He will have to confess the bonds he shared with her parents, the passion with which they all embraced the Khmer Rouge’s illusory promise of a democratic society, and the truth about her father’s end. A love story for things lost and restored, a lyrical hymn to the power of forgiveness, Music of the Ghosts is a “sensitive portrait of the inheritance of survival” (USA TODAY) and a journey through the embattled geography of the heart where love can be reborn.