Author: Sarah BreznauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Intergenerational family choir
Author: Sarah BreznauHow to Start a Singing Group
Author: Jack ChengPublisher:
ISBN: 9781734039306
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
How to Start a Singing Group is an oral history of Newton Family Singers, an intergenerational chorus based in Newton, Massachusetts. Over ten years, NFS has met weekly to sing folk, pop and rock songs with singers from age 3+ to 70+. The musical congregation we have built has sprouted new friendships, deepened family and community ties, and spun off other musical projects. How to Start a Singing Group recounts, in the voices of its members, how Newton Family Singers got started, as well as providing detailed week-by-week instructions to anyone who wants to create a singing group in their own community. Themes include challenging ourselves, making friends as adults, growing up in a musical community, the value of music for autistic and other special needs singers, how aging changes our perspective on pop songs, and a family story about Pete Seeger.
As We Gather to Pray
Author: Marilyn L. HaskelPublisher: Church Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 0898692229
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
The thirteen fascinating essays in this book bring together theoretical articles and practical planning strategies to create a how-to guide for worship. The editors have compiled the work of eighteen lay people and clergy actively serving the Church today in a variety of ministries. Article topics include style in worship, liturgical space, the role of the arts, dance, small church issues, etc. The planning strategies describe how to form a parish worship committee, to evaluate worship, to welcome children, to design service leaflets, to compose intercessions, to celebrate the Triduum, etc. The book carries the publisher's permission for non-commercial reprinting of articles for local parish use. It is ideal for instruction or discussion in the worship committee or parish study groups.
Freebird
Author: Jon RaymondPublisher: Tin House Books
ISBN: 1941040845
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
"Freebird is such a timely book. considering the current deep divisions between right and left. A new classic for the collapsing political landscape of America."--Kim Gordon, author of Girl in a Band The Singers, an all-American family in the California style, are about to lose everything. Anne is a bureaucrat in the Los Angeles Office of Sustainability whose ideals are compromised by a proposal from a venture capitalist seeking to privatize the city’s wastewater. Her brother, Ben, a former Navy SEAL, returns from Afghanistan disillusioned and struggling with PTSD, and starts down a path toward a radical act of violence. And Anne’s teenage son, Aaron, can’t decide if he should go to college or pitch it all and hit the road. They all live inside the long shadow of the Singer patriarch Grandpa Sam, whose untold experience of the Holocaust shapes his family’s moral character to the core. Jon Raymond, screenwriter of the acclaimed films Meek’s Cutoff and Night Moves, combines these narrative threads into a hard-driving story of one family’s moral crisis. In Freebird, Raymond delivers a brilliant, searching novel about death and politics in America today, revealing how the fates of our families are irrevocably tied to the currents of history.
Community Music Therapy
Author: Gary AnsdellPublisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN: 1846420490
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Music therapists from around the world working in conventional and unconventional settings have offered their contributions to this exciting new book, presenting spirited discussion and practical examples of the ways music therapy can reflect and encourage social change. From working with traumatized refugees in Berlin, care-workers and HIV/AIDS orphans in South Africa, to adults with neurological disabilities in south-east England and children in paediatric hospitals in Norway, the contributors present their global perspectives on finding new ways forward in music therapy. Reflecting on traditional approaches in addition to these newer practices, the writers offer fresh perceptions on their identity and role as music therapists, their assumptions and attitudes about how music, people and context interact, the sites and boundaries to their work, and the new possibilities for music therapy in the 21st century. As the first book on the emerging area of Community Music Therapy, this book should be an essential and exciting read for music therapists, specialists and community musicians.
Sacred Song in America
Author: Stephen A. MariniPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252028007
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
In Sacred Song in America, Stephen A. Marini explores the full range of American sacred music and demonstrates how an understanding of the meanings and functions of this musical expression can contribute to a greater understanding of religious culture.Marini examines the role of sacred song across the United States, from the musical traditions of Native Americans and the Hispanic peoples of the Southwest, to the Sacred Harp singers of the rural South and the Jewish music revival to the music of the Mormon, Catholic, and Black churches. Including chapters on New Age and Neo-Pagan music, gospel music, and hymnals as well as interviews with iconic composers of religious music, Sacred Song in America pursues a historical, musicological, and theoretical inquiry into the complex roles of ritual music in the public religious culture of contemporary America.
The Unheavenly Chorus
Author: Kay Lehman SchlozmanPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691159866
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 725
Book Description
Examining the current state of democracy in the United States, 'The Unheavenly Chorus' looks at the political participation of individual citizens - alongside the political advocacy of thousands of organized interests - in order to demonstrate that American democracy is marred by ingrained and persistent class-based inequality.
The Family Choir; Or, Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs for Social Worship
Author: The Family choir
Author: Intergenerational Christian Formation
Author: Holly Catterton AllenPublisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 1514001438
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
In a revised an updated edition, this comprehensive, up-to-date text offers a framework for intentional intergenerational Christian formation. It provides the theoretical foundation of intergenerationality, then gives concrete, practical guidance on how worship, learning, community, and service can all be achieved intergenerationally.