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Author: Stephen A. Marini Publisher: University of Illinois Press ISBN: 9780252028007 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 418
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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.
Author: Zhao, Fang Publisher: IGI Global ISBN: 1599049023 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 530
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It has become a widely-recognized fact that entrepreneurs and information technology have become the backbone of the world economy. The increasing penetration of IT in society and in most of industries/businesses, as well as the joining forces of entrepreneurship and innovation in the economy, reinforce the need for a leading and authoritative research handbook to disseminate leading edge findings about entrepreneurship and innovation in the context of IT from an international perspective. Information Technology Entrepreneurship and Innovation presents current studies on the nature, process and practice of entrepreneurship and innovation in the development, implementation, and application of information technology worldwide, as well as providing academics, entrepreneurs, managers, and practitioners with up-to-date, comprehensive, and rigorous research-based articles on the formation and implementation of effective strategies and business plans.
Author: Stephen A. Marini Publisher: 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.
Author: John Mendell Schechter Publisher: Kent State University Press ISBN: 9780873384391 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 304
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A musical instrument that has played a vital role in Latin American music cultures--the harp--is the subject of this new work, the first study of its kind to be published in English. John Schechter presents a history of the harp in Spain, traces its introduction into colonial Latin America, and describes its modern roles in the diverse cultural centers of Mexico, Paraguay-Argentina-chile, Venezuela, and Peru. He then turns his focus to his own field research in the Quichua culture of northern highland Ecuador, an area that has receive considerably less scholarly attention than many of its Latin American neighbors. The reader will meet a community of harp maistrus on the slopes of Mt. Cotacachi and become familiar with their culture, their particular instrument and its tuning, and their performance practices. Numerous photographs, musical transcriptions, and diagrams illustrate and enliven the text. The Indispensable Harp is unique for its integration of aspects of music and cultural history, organology, and performance practice, treating in considerable depth both broadly established music-ethnographical practices. It speaks to the conclusion that the vital role of the harp in Latin American music history has now been properly acknowledged and documented.
Author: Martin Klabunde Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781463558581 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 60
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The Adungu is an arched bow harp made from wood and cowhide. It is played by both the Alur and Acholi people; the Alur live in Northwestern Uganda and Northeastern Congo and the Acholi live in Northern Uganda. It is a versatile instrument. It is simple enough that a novice may play it with limited musical background and yet a master can make it sound like three or four people are playing at the same time. This instructional book will give you the basics so you can play this beautiful instrument. Includes: * Cultural context of music in traditional Acholi an * Excerpts from Music is Medicine: Accessing Wisdom from the Master Within * Written Notation for Melodic and Bass Adungus in two styles, Traditional Western Notation and Modern Box notation * Six Exercises to get your fingers familiar with strings. * Access to MP3s for Exercises One through Six and separate melodic and bass adungu tracks for two songs by Martin Klabunde * Access to MP3s for two complete rhythms written by Martin Klabunde Table of Contents: Uganda, East Africa The Adungu Music in Acholi and Alur Society Music is Medicine Tuning the Adungu Playing the Adungu Understanding Music Notation Exercises Songs Track Index Authors Bio Recommended Listening This book comes with access to Exercise and Song mp3s on our website. Copy and paste this link to access the tracks: http: //www.collectiveawakening.us/index.php/shop/books/play-the-adungu/148-learn-to-play-the-adungu-cd-tracks You may also purchase the CD ($5.99 + shipping) by contacting Collective Awakening: [email protected] Adungus are available on our web site.
Author: Roslyn Rensch Publisher: Indiana University Press ISBN: 0253030293 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 400
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Revising her classic 1989 book Harps and Harpists, Roslyn Rensch expands her authoritative history of this timeless instrument. This lavishly illustrated edition, with 137 black-and-white images and 24 color plates, surveys the progress of the harp from antiquity to the present day. The new edition includes two new chapters; an extensive bibliography and index; personal anecdotes of the author's studies under Alberto Salvi; and an appendix on the Roslyn Rensch Papers and Harp Collection, which are housed at the University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign.
Author: Wilfred E. Richard Publisher: Smithsonian Institution ISBN: 1588343774 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 272
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Maine to Greenland is a testament to one of the world's great geographic regions: the Maritime Far Northeast. For more than three decades, William W. Fitzhugh and Wilfred E. Richard have explored the Northeast’s Atlantic corridor and its fascinating history, habitat, and culture. The authors’ powerful personal essays and Richard’s stunning photography transport readers to this vibrant region, joining Smithsonian archaeological expeditions and trekking in vast and amazing terrain. Following Fitzhugh and Richard’s travels north—from Maine to the Canadian Maritimes, Newfoundland and northern Quebec, then to Labrador, Baffin and Ellesmere islands, and Greenland—we view incredible landscapes, uncover human history, and meet luminous personalities along the way. Fully illustrated with 350 full-color photographs, Maine to Greenland is the first in-depth treatment of the Northeast Atlantic corridor and essential for armchair travelers, locals, tourists, or anyone who has journeyed there. Today green technology, climate change, and the opening of the Arctic Ocean have transformed the Maritime Far Northeast from an icy frontier into a global resource zone and an increasingly integrated international crossroads. In our rapidly converging world, we have much to learn from the Maritime Far Northeast and how its variety of cultures have adapted to rather than changed their environments during the past ten thousand years. Maine to Greenland is not only a complete account of the region’s unique culture and environment, but also a timely reminder that amidst the very real consequences of climate change, the inhabitants of the Maritime Far Northeast can show us grounded and sustainable ways of living.
Author: Christine Vandamme Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN: 1527576620 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 386
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This volume explores space, place and hybridity in today’s multicultural societies with a strong emphasis on the role of art and spatial representations, in order to map out the complexity of modern nations and celebrate the creative powers of their highly dynamic communities and cultures. It considers how the very idea of the nation has evolved since the emergence and development of the idea of the nation-state at the end of the eighteenth century, and how art can reinvigorate representations of nation-states worldwide without relegating their minorities to the margin. Instead of merely focusing on the role of place and land in national representations, the book adopts a wider and more critical approach to space in the arts by investigating the notions of both hybridity and Bhabha’s “Third Space” in the fields of aesthetics, film studies and literature, with a particular emphasis on postcolonial literature.
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