Bodies of Song

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199374163
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Book Synopsis Bodies of Song by : Linda Hess

Download or read book Bodies of Song written by Linda Hess and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kabir was a great iconoclastic-mystic poet of fifteenth-century North India; his poems were composed orally, written down by others in manuscripts and books, and transmitted through song. Scholars and translators usually attend to written collections, but these present only a partial picture of the Kabir who has remained vibrantly alive through the centuries mostly in oral forms. Entering the worlds of singers and listeners in rural Madhya Pradesh, Bodies of Song combines ethnographic and textual study in exploring how oral transmission and performance shape the content and interpretation of vernacular poetry in North India. The book investigates textual scholars' study of oral-performative traditions in a milieu where texts move simultaneously via oral, written, audio/video-recorded, and electronic pathways. As texts and performances are always socially embedded, Linda Hess brings readers into the lives of those who sing, hear, celebrate, revere, and dispute about Kabir. Bodies of Song is rich in stories of individuals and families, villages and towns, religious and secular organizations, castes and communities. Dialogue between religious/spiritual Kabir and social/political Kabir is a continuous theme throughout the book: ambiguously located between Hindu and Muslim cultures, Kabir rejected religious identities, pretentions, and hypocrisies. But even while satirizing the religious, he composed stunning poetry of religious experience and psychological insight. A weaver by trade, Kabir also criticized caste and other inequalities and today serves as an icon for Dalits and all who strive to remove caste prejudice and oppression.

Cosmic Scholar

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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374717966
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Book Synopsis Cosmic Scholar by : John Szwed

Download or read book Cosmic Scholar written by John Szwed and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named one of the Best Books of 2023 by the New Yorker and The New York Times' Dwight Garner “The first comprehensive biography of this hipster magus . . . [John Szwed] allows different sides of Smith’s personality to catch blades of sun. He brings the right mixture of reverence and comic incredulity to his task.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times Grammy Award–winning music scholar and celebrated biographer John Szwed presents the first biography of Harry Smith, the brilliant eccentric who transformed twentieth century art and culture. He was an anthropologist, filmmaker, painter, folklorist, mystic, and walking encyclopedia. He taught Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe about the occult, swapped drugs with Timothy Leary, had a front-row seat to a young Thelonious Monk, lived with (and tortured) Allen Ginsberg, was admired by Susan Sontag, and was one of the first artists funded by Guggenheim Foundation. He was always broke, generally intoxicated, compulsively irascible, and unimpeachably authentic. Harry Smith was, in the words of Robert Frank, “the only person I met in my life that transcended everything.” In Cosmic Scholar, the Grammy Award-winning music scholar and celebrated biographer John Szwed patches together, for the first time, the life of one of the twentieth century’s most overlooked cultural figures. From his time recording the customs of Native American tribes in the Pacific Northwest and Florida to his life in Greenwich Village in its heyday, Smith was consumed by an unceasing desire to create a unified theory of culture. He was an insatiable creator and collector, responsible for the influential Anthology of American Folk Music and several pioneering experimental films, but was also an insufferable and destructive eccentric who was unable to survive in regular society, or keep himself healthy or sober. Exhaustively researched, energetically told, and complete with a trove of images, Cosmic Scholar is a feat of biographical restoration and the long overdue canonization of an American icon. Includes black-and-white and color images

Three Early Modern Hebrew Scholars on the Mysteries of Song

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004283641
Total Pages : 404 pages
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Book Synopsis Three Early Modern Hebrew Scholars on the Mysteries of Song by : Don Harrán Z"l

Download or read book Three Early Modern Hebrew Scholars on the Mysteries of Song written by Don Harrán Z"l and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In discoursing on music, three early modern Jewish scholars stand out for their originality. The first is Judah Moscato, who, as chief rabbi in Mantua, preached sermons, one of them on music: there Moscato presents music as a cosmic and spiritual phenomenon. The second scholar is Leon Modena, the foremost Jewish intellectual in early seventeenth-century Venice. Modena deals with music in two responsa to questions put to him for rabbinical adjudication, one of them an examination of biblical and rabbinical sources on the legitimacy of performing art music in the synagogue. Abraham Portaleone, the third scholar, treated music in a massive disquisition on the Ancient Temple and its ritual, describing it as an art correlating with contemporary Italian music. The introduction surveys the development of Hebrew art music from the Bible through the Talmud and rabbinical writings until the early modern era. The epilogue defines the special contribution of Hebrew scholars to early modern theory.

Music, Theology, and Justice

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Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498538673
Total Pages : 251 pages
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Book Synopsis Music, Theology, and Justice by : Michael O'Connor

Download or read book Music, Theology, and Justice written by Michael O'Connor and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music does not make itself. It is made by people: professionals and amateurs, singers and instrumentalists, composers and publishers, performers and audiences, entrepreneurs and consumers. In turn, making music shapes those who make it—spiritually, emotionally, physically, mentally, socially, politically, economically—for good or ill, harming and healing. This volume considers the social practice of music from a Christian point of view. Using a variety of methodological perspectives, the essays explore the ethical and doctrinal implications of music-making. The reflections are grouped according to the traditional threefold ministry of Christ: prophet, priest, and shepherd: the prophetic role of music, as a means of articulating protest against injustice, offering consolation, and embodying a harmonious order; the pastoral role of music: creating and sustaining community, building peace, fostering harmony with the whole of creation; and the priestly role of music: in service of reconciliation and restoration, for individuals and communities, offering prayers of praise and intercession to God. Using music in priestly, prophetic, and pastoral ways, Christians pray for and rehearse the coming of God’s kingdom—whether in formal worship, social protest, concert performance, interfaith sharing, or peacebuilding. Whereas temperance was of prime importance in relation to the ethics of music from antiquity to the early modern period, justice has become central to contemporary debates. This book seeks to contribute to those debates by means of Christian theological reflection on a wide range of musics: including monastic chant, death metal, protest songs, psalms and worship music, punk rock, musical drama, interfaith choral singing, Sting, and Daft Punk.

The Scholar's Guide

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Publisher : PIMS
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
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Book Synopsis The Scholar's Guide by : Petrus Alfonsi

Download or read book The Scholar's Guide written by Petrus Alfonsi and published by PIMS. This book was released on 1969 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of parables and moralizing tales collected from Arabic, Persian, and Sanskrit.

Central European Folk Music

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Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815303046
Total Pages : 342 pages
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Book Synopsis Central European Folk Music by : Philip V. Bohlman

Download or read book Central European Folk Music written by Philip V. Bohlman and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Scholars, Missionaries, and Counter-Imperialists

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000546373
Total Pages : 346 pages
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Book Synopsis Scholars, Missionaries, and Counter-Imperialists by : Andrew C. Holman

Download or read book Scholars, Missionaries, and Counter-Imperialists written by Andrew C. Holman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-14 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than half a century, the field of Canadian Studies has attracted North American scholars of the highest caliber to examine Canada: its distinctive social makeup, its fascinating colonial and postcolonial history, its intriguing literature, its political structure, and its changing place in the world. Scholars, Missionaries, and Counter-Imperialists: The American Review of Canadian Studies, 1971–2021 traces the birth and growth of that field by reproducing 15 exemplary articles published in the pages of that journal from its establishment until the present day. For five decades, the American Review of Canadian Studies (ARCS) acted as a bellwether for the field, revealing its strengths, projecting new directions and inquiries, and reflecting the changing topics and methods that scholars used to study Canada. This book captures the history of that field in one robust volume. Carefully selected by the co-editors of ARCS, the chapters in this edited volume are prefaced by an introductory essay that assesses the accomplishments of the field and brief chapter introductions that place them into context.

Freedom Sounds

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199880883
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Book Synopsis Freedom Sounds by : Ingrid Monson

Download or read book Freedom Sounds written by Ingrid Monson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-10-18 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insightful examination of the impact of the Civil Rights Movement and African Independence on jazz in the 1950s and 60s, Freedom Sounds traces the complex relationships among music, politics, aesthetics, and activism through the lens of the hot button racial and economic issues of the time. Ingrid Monson illustrates how the contentious and soul-searching debates in the Civil Rights, African Independence, and Black Power movements shaped aesthetic debates and exerted a moral pressure on musicians to take action. Throughout, her arguments show how jazz musicians' quest for self-determination as artists and human beings also led to fascinating and far reaching musical explorations and a lasting ethos of social critique and transcendence. Across a broad body of issues of cultural and political relevance, Freedom Sounds considers the discursive, structural, and practical aspects of life in the jazz world in the 1950s and 1960s. In domestic politics, Monson explores the desegregation of the American Federation of Musicians, the politics of playing to segregated performance venues in the 1950s, the participation of jazz musicians in benefit concerts, and strategies of economic empowerment. Issues of transatlantic importance such as the effects of anti-colonialism and African nationalism on the politics and aesthetics of the music are also examined, from Paul Robeson's interest in Africa, to the State Department jazz tours, to the interaction of jazz musicians such Art Blakey and Randy Weston with African and African diasporic aesthetics. Monson deftly explores musicians' aesthetic agency in synthesizing influential forms of musical expression from a multiplicity of stylistic and cultural influences--African American music, popular song, classical music, African diasporic aesthetics, and other world musics--through examples from cool jazz, hard bop, modal jazz, and the avant-garde. By considering the differences between aesthetic and socio-economic mobility, she presents a fresh interpretation of debates over cultural ownership, racism, reverse racism, and authenticity. Freedom Sounds will be avidly read by students and academics in musicology, ethnomusicology, anthropology, popular music, African American Studies, and African diasporic studies, as well as fans of jazz, hip hop, and African American music.

The Scholar's History of England ...

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 644 pages
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Book Synopsis The Scholar's History of England ... by : Sir James Henry Ramsay (bart.)

Download or read book The Scholar's History of England ... written by Sir James Henry Ramsay (bart.) and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Sunday scholar's companion. Vol.5-[10. Imperf.].

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 862 pages
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Book Synopsis The Sunday scholar's companion. Vol.5-[10. Imperf.]. by : Church of England sunday school institute

Download or read book The Sunday scholar's companion. Vol.5-[10. Imperf.]. written by Church of England sunday school institute and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reports from a Scholar's Life

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Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1575063808
Total Pages : 376 pages
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Book Synopsis Reports from a Scholar's Life by : Tryggve N. D. Mettinger

Download or read book Reports from a Scholar's Life written by Tryggve N. D. Mettinger and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-11-09 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tryggve N. D. Mettinger, emeritus professor of Hebrew Bible at Lund University, has long been one of the best known and most admired voices in biblical studies. His eight (English-language) books and countless articles, published in a career spanning over four decades, have changed the field in many ways. Mettinger is renowned not as an iconoclast, but as one working within mainstream scholarship who is nevertheless willing to challenge cherished ideas and who takes nothing for granted. For example, in one of his earliest works, A Farewell to the Servant Songs—published in its entirety in this volume—Mettinger, with his trademark brevity and articulation, drew attention to the shaky ground on which this consensus idea was built and called fellow scholars to reexamine this notion taken for granted by so many for so long. For Mettinger, the Bible is sacred literature, but in biblical interpretation there are no sacred cows. Reports from a Scholar’s Life: Select Papers on the Hebrew Bible collects 16 studies (one short monograph, twelve articles, and three reviews), originally published between 1977 and 2008, into one volume, along with a new reflective essay. The papers included provide not only Mettinger’s most groundbreaking publications, but also glimpses into several of the areas of study that occupied the author. Mettinger’s work ranged far and wide in the Hebrew Bible, and here one finds examples of his contributions to the study of, among other things: • the notions of God, the Gottesbild, in ancient Israel ; the theology of “YHWH Sabaoth” in the monarchic period ; • the development of the story of David in 1–2 Samuel; • aniconism in ancient Israel; the motif of the “dying and rising god” in the ancient world ;• narrative criticism of the book of Job; • the development and structure of Second Isaiah The entire volume is opened by the titular essay, published for the first time here, “Report from a Scholar’s Life.” This article was originally delivered as the farewell address upon his retirement from Lund University, and it provides a retrospective on his entire life and career.

Anthology of Kokugaku Scholars

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Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1942242840
Total Pages : 612 pages
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Download or read book Anthology of Kokugaku Scholars written by John R. Bentley and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-31 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Sunday Scholar's Hymn Book

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
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Download or read book The Sunday Scholar's Hymn Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Rhodes Scholars, Oxford, and the Creation of an American Elite

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Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857453696
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (574 download)

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Book Synopsis Rhodes Scholars, Oxford, and the Creation of an American Elite by : Thomas J. Schaeper

Download or read book Rhodes Scholars, Oxford, and the Creation of an American Elite written by Thomas J. Schaeper and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each year thirty-two seniors at American universities are awarded Rhodes Scholarships, which entitle them to spend two or three years studying at the University of Oxford. The program, founded by the British colonialist and entrepreneur Cecil Rhodes and established in 1903, has become the world's most famous academic scholarship and has brought thousands of young Americans to study in England. Many of these later became national leaders in government, law, education, literature, and other fields. Among them were the politicians J. William Fulbright, Bill Bradley, and Bill Clinton; the public policy analysts Robert Reich and George Stephanopoulos; the writer Robert Penn Warren; the entertainer Kris Kristofferson; and the Supreme Court Justices Byron White and David Souter. Based on extensive research in published and unpublished documents and on hundreds of interviews, this book traces the history of the program and the stories of many individuals. In addition it addresses a host of questions such as: how important was the Oxford experience for the individual scholars? To what extent has the program created an old-boy (-girl since 1976) network that propels its members to success? How many Rhodes Scholars have cracked under the strain and failed to live up to expectations? How have the Americans coped with life in Oxford and what have they thought of Britain in general? Beyond the history of the program and the individuals involved, this book also offers a valuable examination of the American-British cultural encounter.

Harrow Songs

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Publisher : London : Longman's, Green
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
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Download or read book Harrow Songs written by Edward Ernest Bowen and published by London : Longman's, Green. This book was released on 1886 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Junior League Songster, Containing Songs for Devotional Services, Social Entertainments and Anniversary Occassions

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Total Pages : 52 pages
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Book Synopsis The Junior League Songster, Containing Songs for Devotional Services, Social Entertainments and Anniversary Occassions by : Stephen V. R. Ford

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Origen: Introduction. 1. The making of a scholar and theologian. 2. The mature years at Alexandria. 3. Man of the church at Caesarea. 4. A controversial legacy

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Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415118360
Total Pages : 307 pages
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Book Synopsis Origen: Introduction. 1. The making of a scholar and theologian. 2. The mature years at Alexandria. 3. Man of the church at Caesarea. 4. A controversial legacy by : Joseph Wilson Trigg

Download or read book Origen: Introduction. 1. The making of a scholar and theologian. 2. The mature years at Alexandria. 3. Man of the church at Caesarea. 4. A controversial legacy written by Joseph Wilson Trigg and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a comprehensive and accessible insight into Origen's life and writings.