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Book Synopsis Timba Comes Home by : Sheila Jeffries
Download or read book Timba Comes Home written by Sheila Jeffries and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timba and Vati are named after lions: and two black kittens against the world is the pact they make when they are abandoned in a ditch. But when Timba is eventually found by a young boy, Leroy, he is alone and starving. Leroy has a tough life and that is something Timba can relate to - he finds it impossible not to love the sad little boy and be his friend. Through Leroy Timba also meets Angie, Leroy's teacher, and they forge a special bond - Angie will help him find Vati, whatever it takes. Can these two black kittens find their way back to each other, and use their cat power to heal the lives of the people they love?
Book Synopsis In the Service of People by : S. N. Ejedepang-Koge
Download or read book In the Service of People written by S. N. Ejedepang-Koge and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author paints the rural geographical and sociological environment in which he was raised and highlights the careful parental care and the early death of his mother at the age of 32 years. He was then 12 years old and his siblings 8, 5, and 3 years old. This provides the base from which traditional and western education were pursued with determination and vision as the source of progress and power, thanks to the encouragement of his father. Armed with a liberal and professional education, Ejedepang-Koge, a teacher through and through, his autobiography reads like a book on the education and constitutional changes in Cameroon. He served and successively as a teacher, Head of Service, Deputy Director in both the Departments of Private and Secondary Education, Director of Education of Private Education in the Ministry of National Education and, in Diplomatic Service as Cultural Counsellor in the Embassy of Cameroon in Washington DC. By virtue of such services, he mirrors beautifully the joys and pains of a conscientious and patriotic civil servant striving to do his duty honestly and refusing to be discouraged and thwarted.
Book Synopsis Reminiscences on the Dynastic History of Ndom Mwasundem, Cameroon by : S. N. Ejedepang-Koge
Download or read book Reminiscences on the Dynastic History of Ndom Mwasundem, Cameroon written by S. N. Ejedepang-Koge and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Samuel Ngome Ejedepang-Koge loves his village Ndom very dearly. As such, he has fond memories of his childhood in the village. For three years, he served as President of his age group or set, The Star of Peace (Tintine a Nsang). Very close to his father, a man who was much steeped in the culture of his people, his father took him along to various meetings. Thus, from early in his childhood, young S.N. Ejedepang-Koge continually drew from this rich source until the death of his father in 1979. In this Way, he got acquainted with the administration of the village. In 1958, at the age of twenty he rallied his village friends to try to resolve peacefully the attempted secession of the so-called Essossong Ndom Two, which was provoked by the seduction of the wife of a villager by a royal. Because the village trusts him as a credible and honest broker, it submitted to his reconciliation efforts when in 2005, youths, elders and the Chief were logged in a long drawn quarrel. This is the history of the village as he heard and as he is living it."--Back cover
Book Synopsis Timba: The Sound of the Cuban Crisis by : Vincenzo Perna
Download or read book Timba: The Sound of the Cuban Crisis written by Vincenzo Perna and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cuban music is recognized unanimously as a major historical force behind Latin American popular music, and as an important player in the development of US popular music and jazz. However, the music produced on the island after the Revolution in 1959 has been largely overlooked and overshadowed by the Buena Vista Social Club phenomenon. The Revolution created the conditions for the birth of a type of highly sophisticated popular music, which has grown relatively free from market pressures. These conditions premised the new importance attained by Afro-Cuban dance music during the 1990s, when the island entered a period of deep economic and social crisis that has shaken Revolutionary institutions from their foundations. Vincenzo Perna investigates the role of black popular music in post-Revolutionary Cuba, and in the 1990s in particular. The emergence of timba is analysed as a distinctively new style of Afro-Cuban dance music. The controversial role of Afro-Cuban working class culture is highlighted, showing how this has resisted co-optation into a unified, pacified vision of national culture, and built musical bridges with the transnational black diaspora. Musically, timba represents an innovative fusion of previous popular and folkloric Afro-Cuban styles with elements of hip-hop and other African-American styles like jazz, funk and salsa. Timba articulates a black urban youth subculture with distinctive visual and choreographic codes. With its abrasive commentaries on issues such as race, consumer culture, tourism, prostitution and its connections to the underworld, timba demonstrates at the 'street level' many of the contradictions of contemporary Cuban society. After repeatedly colliding with official discourses, timba has eventually met with institutional repression. This book will appeal not only to ethnomusicologists and those working on popular music studies, but also to those working in the areas of cultural and Black studies, anthropology, Latin American st
Book Synopsis Born to be Trouble by : Sheila Jeffries
Download or read book Born to be Trouble written by Sheila Jeffries and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-03-09 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poignant and gripping new saga from the author of the bestselling The Girl by the River and The Boy with No Boots, perfect for fans of Margeret Dickinson and Katie Flynn. The third novel in The Boy with No Boots trilogy. Running away from heartache and scandal, Tessa flees Cornwall to London in search of anonymity and freedom. Sleeping rough, scared and suicidal, she contemplates throwing herself in the river. Then she discovers the Samaritans and a volunteer, Dorothy, who patiently listens as Tessa pours out a lifetime of troubles. Inspired by Dorothy, Tessa tries to turn her life around. And when she meets Paul, she feels she has at last found a soulmate. But Paul is not the man he seems. When a tragedy at home calls Tessa back to the countryside she grew up in, her past and present collide. Can she finally find the strength to fulfil her destiny? And who will be waiting to help her begin her journey?
Author :Kevin Moore Publisher :Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN 13 :9781482729368 Total Pages :0 pages Book Rating :4.7/5 (293 download)
Download or read book Beyond Salsa Bass written by Kevin Moore and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-03-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (this page sells the book only - audio files are a separate downloadable purchase - the book also contains a link to a smaller free download of audio files)Beyond Salsa Bass is the companion series to Beyond Salsa Piano, launched in 2009 and now spanning 12 volumes. As of 2013, three bass volumes have been released: Volumes 6 and 7 on Alain Pérez, and this book, Volume 1: For Beginners. Included are bass tumbaos for each of the piano tumbaos (aka, montunos) in Beyond Salsa Piano, Vol. 1, but the bass volume is more than twice as long and contains many additional bass tumbaos and other exercises. The book begins by categorizing the 16 most common Latin bass tumbaos by their rhythms and then proceeds to tell the history of Latin music from a bassist's perspective, with notation for bass tumbaos from each era covered: changüí, rumba, son, danzón, big band and son montuno (a very detailed study of Arsenio Rodríguez). Audio files are not included with the book. Available online are both a smaller free audio download and an extensive paid audio download.
Book Synopsis The Girl By The River by : Sheila Jeffries
Download or read book The Girl By The River written by Sheila Jeffries and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-02-11 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heart-warming family saga from the much-loved author of A Cornish Orphan and Solomon's Tale. The second novel in The Boy with no Boots trilogy... Moments after she is born, Tessa Barcussy is branded as 'trouble'. On the same day, her father Freddie encounters a Romany Gypsy who makes a chilling prediction about Tessa's destiny. Freddie finds it so disturbing that he writes it down and hides it in a sealed envelope - never to be opened, he hopes. Yet the gypsy's words haunt him as he bonds with his new baby daughter. Hyper-sensitive and rebellious, Tessa grows up a misfit, difficult to handle and disruptive. Freddie and his wife Kate struggle to raise this challenging child and nurture her creative gifts. Tessa feels that her path to happiness is chequered, growing up in the shadow of her sister, golden-child Lucy, and hiding a dark secret from everyone? Will the words of the Romany Gypsy come true? Or will they empower Tessa to finally become the person she was born to be?
Book Synopsis Cottage Daze 2-Book Bundle by : James Ross
Download or read book Cottage Daze 2-Book Bundle written by James Ross and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This special bundle contains both of James Ross’ essential companion volumes to the great Canadian tradition of life at the cottage. Who doesn’t remember sitting in a frigid lake, trying to help a youngster get up on water skis for the first time, launching a boat while the whole world seems to be watching, or getting caught up in a nest of wasps? These collections of stories, elegantly organized into four seasons (spring, summer, autumn, and winter), will make readers laugh, cry, and long to be at the cottage a "must have" for every cottage bookshelf. Cottage Daze Still in a Daze at the Cottage
Book Synopsis Rebel Dance, Renegade Stance by : Umi Vaughan
Download or read book Rebel Dance, Renegade Stance written by Umi Vaughan and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2012-10-17 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebel Dance, Renegade Stanceshows how community music-makers and dancers take in all that is around them socially and globally, and publicly and bodily unfold their memories, sentiments, and raw responses within open spaces designated or commandeered for local popular dance. Umi Vaughan, an African American anthropologist, musician, dancer, and photographer "plantao" in Cuba—planted, living like a Cuban—reveals a rarely discussed perspective on contemporary Cuban society during the 1990s, the peak decade of timba, and beyond, as the Cuban leadership transferred from Fidel Castro to his brother. Simultaneously, the book reveals popular dance music in the context of a young and astutely educated Cuban generation of fierce and creative performers. By looking at the experiences of black Cubans and exploring the notion of "Afro Cuba," Rebel Dance, Renegade Stanceexplains timba's evolution and achieved significance in the larger context of Cuban culture. Vaughan discusses a maroon aesthetic extended beyond the colonial era to the context of contemporary society; describes the dance spaces of Cuba; and examines the performance of identity and desire through the character of the "especulador." This book will find an audience with musicians, anthropologists, ethnomusicologists, interdisciplinary specialists in performance studies, cultural studies, and Latin American and Caribbean studies, as well as laypeople who are interested in Atlantic/African and African American/Africana studies and/or Cuban culture.
Download or read book Dem Seh written by Owen Ifill and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dem Seh" is a book of stories from my village, Buxton. I come from a village of great tradition and history, and one of its many traditions is its storytelling. We are a predominantly black village; direct descendants of slaves, and so storytelling has always been with us. We have always had a line of great storytellers, or as we say "shit talk artists." The book is a small collection of some of the more popular and hilarious stories. Some are contemporary and others are from the previous generation. This book grew out of a sense of the need for renewal in my village. Buxton suffered through some violent and stressful times a few years ago, and I felt that Buxton needed to laugh again; to laugh at itself again. To celebrate itself again. This book is a gift to Buxton, for Buxton has always given of itself. Part of its proceeds will be donated to social and educational initiatives in the village. I was born in Buxton, Guyana, on the east coast of Demerara, where I received my primary and secondary education. I left for Cuba in 1980, where I completed studies in Medicine in 1985. I returned to Guyana, and after serving out my contract, came to the United States in 1992. I am currently practicing in Primary Care and Addiction Medicine in Brooklyn New York, where I live with my wife and daughter. I have been writing on and off since I was a child and have three previous publications; "Infinite circles," "In flux" and "Godma." All self published.
Download or read book Solomon’s Tale written by Sheila Jeffries and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a little cat who saved a family in crisis.
Book Synopsis The Last Days of Everest by : Dean Allen
Download or read book The Last Days of Everest written by Dean Allen and published by Author House. This book was released on 2010-08-04 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Members of a Nepalese family are embroiled in a blood feud that is decades old. The feud involves the legitimate property rights to land which members of the family have shared for over a century. China, to the east, gets involved when she sends an emissary (agent) to mediate the dispute over the land in question. The emissary is not forthright when he portrays the ownership of the land to be that of one of the two individuals involved in the dispute. He has lied to the man. The emissary had reasons of his own for the dispute to devolve into a bloody battle. A massacre results, with the deaths of all but the youngest son of one of the men involved in the dispute. Years pass, and China has found out that the Himalayan Plateau has an immense pocket of geothermal energy deep below the surface. She desperately needs to gain access and control of this energy source for her to become a major world power in the next century. China sees this one particular family’s blood feud as an opportunity to tap this energy source with whatever means necessary, and focus the blame on someone else. China’s plot is successful, but it doesn’t go exactly as planned.
Author :Kevin Moore Publisher :Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN 13 :9781450545631 Total Pages :0 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Beyond Salsa Piano written by Kevin Moore and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2010-03-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by the editor of the world's largest Cuban music website, www.timba.com, and the author of the popular "Tomás Cruz Conga Method", "Beyond Salsa Piano" is a series of method books and historical/discographical guides chronicling the role of the piano in Cuban music. After the 5 introductory volumes, Volume 7 is the second of a series of books on specific Cuban pianists, using note-for-note transcriptions from MIDI files. Iván "Melón" Lewis is one of the greatest timba pianists, having recorded and played with The Issac Delgado Group and Manolín, el Médico de la Salsa.
Download or read book Princess So'la written by A. Stanford and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story about what happens when two Florida teens are introduced to a whole new world through their encounter with an unlikely interstellar traveler. Vance and Marla’s typical, ordinary lives are forever changed when the princess literally lands in their backyard while fleeing strife on her homeworld. Princess So’la, In My World is a story of heroes and villians, earthlings and aliens, kings and queens, and of course…parents and children.
Download or read book Cuban Music written by Maya Roy and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Native Americans supplied the maracas. African slaves brought drums and ritual music, and Spaniards brought guitars, brass instruments, and clarinets along with European ballroom dancing. The advent of blues and jazz gave new forms to styles of songs, notably feeling songs, which joined the more traditional styles of trova and bolero. Cuban culture represents a convergence of these diverse backgrounds, and the musical heritage presented in this book reflects these traditions as well. In colonial times, African ritual sounds mixed with Catholic liturgies and brass bands of the Spanish military academies. Ballroom dances, including French music from Haiti popular in 18th-century Havana society, existed side by side with the cabildos (guilds and carnival clubs) and the plantations. The son, considered the expression of Cuban musical identity, had its origins in a rural setting in which African slaves and small farmers from Andalusia worked and played music together, developing many variations over the years, including big band music. Cuban music is now experiencing a major renaissance, and is enjoyed throughout the world.
Download or read book No Paradise Yet written by Judith Mirsky and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a review of where the women of Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean stand on key social and cultural issues. What progress have women in particular countries made? How do social pressures, cultural expectations and continuing poverty hold back effective recognition of their rights? What prospects, as a result of continuing research, activism by women's organizations and measures by government, does the next generation hold out of for further progress in women's social position?
Book Synopsis Behold the Dreamers by : Imbolo Mbue
Download or read book Behold the Dreamers written by Imbolo Mbue and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compulsively readable debut novel about marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trapdoors in the American Dream—the unforgettable story of a young Cameroonian couple making a new life in New York just as the Great Recession upends the economy New York Times Bestseller • Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award • Longlisted for the PEN/Open Book Award • An ALA Notable Book NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • The New York Times Book Review • San Francisco Chronicle • The Guardian • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • Chicago Public Library • BookPage • Refinery29 • Kirkus Reviews Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant living in Harlem, has come to the United States to provide a better life for himself, his wife, Neni, and their six-year-old son. In the fall of 2007, Jende can hardly believe his luck when he lands a job as a chauffeur for Clark Edwards, a senior executive at Lehman Brothers. Clark demands punctuality, discretion, and loyalty—and Jende is eager to please. Clark’s wife, Cindy, even offers Neni temporary work at the Edwardses’ summer home in the Hamptons. With these opportunities, Jende and Neni can at last gain a foothold in America and imagine a brighter future. However, the world of great power and privilege conceals troubling secrets, and soon Jende and Neni notice cracks in their employers’ façades. When the financial world is rocked by the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the Jongas are desperate to keep Jende’s job—even as their marriage threatens to fall apart. As all four lives are dramatically upended, Jende and Neni are forced to make an impossible choice. Praise for Behold the Dreamers “A debut novel by a young woman from Cameroon that illuminates the immigrant experience in America with the tenderhearted wisdom so lacking in our political discourse . . . Mbue is a bright and captivating storyteller.”—The Washington Post “A capacious, big-hearted novel.”—The New York Times Book Review “Behold the Dreamers’ heart . . . belongs to the struggles and small triumphs of the Jongas, which Mbue traces in clean, quick-moving paragraphs.”—Entertainment Weekly “Mbue’s writing is warm and captivating.”—People (book of the week) “[Mbue’s] book isn’t the first work of fiction to grapple with the global financial crisis of 2007–2008, but it’s surely one of the best. . . . It’s a novel that depicts a country both blessed and doomed, on top of the world, but always at risk of losing its balance. It is, in other words, quintessentially American.”—NPR “This story is one that needs to be told.”—Bust “Behold the Dreamers challenges us all to consider what it takes to make us genuinely content, and how long is too long to live with our dreams deferred.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “[A] beautiful, empathetic novel.”—The Boston Globe “A witty, compassionate, swiftly paced novel that takes on race, immigration, family and the dangers of capitalist excess.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch “Mbue [is] a deft, often lyrical observer. . . . [Her] meticulous storytelling announces a writer in command of her gifts.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune
