Author: David Budbill
Publisher: Exterminating Angel Press
ISBN: 1935259172
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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A "tale of the tribe" (Ezra Pound's phrase for his own longer work), Park Songs is set during a single day in a down-and-out Midwestern city park where people from all walks of life gather. In this small green space amidst a great gray city, the park provides a refuge for its caretaker (and resident poet), street preachers, retirees, moms, hustlers, and teenagers. Interspersed with blues songs, the community speaks through poetic monologues and conversations, while the homeless provide the introductory chorus—and all of their voices become one great epic tale of comedy and tragedy. Full of unexpected humor, hard-won wisdom, righteous (but sometimes misplaced) anger, and sly tenderness, their stories show us how people learn to live with mistakes and make connections in an antisocial world. As the poem/play engages us in their pain and joy—and the goofy delight of being human—it makes a quietly soulful statement about acceptance and community in our lives. David Budbill has worked as a carpenter's apprentice, short order cook, day laborer, and occasional commentator on NPR's All Thing Considered. His poems can often be heard on Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac and his books include the best-selling Happy Life (Copper Canyon Press) and Judevine, a collection of narrative poems that forms the basis for the play Judevine, which has been performed in twenty-two states. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Budbill now lives in the mountains of northern Vermont. R. C. Irwin, whose absurdist and nostalgic work provides the set design for Park Songs, teaches at San Francisco City College.

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ISBN: 9780785354260
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24

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Where did the animals go when they left the ark? They found a beautiful forest and named it Noah's Park. Press a melody button and sing along with ten inspirational songs. bull; bull;He's Got the Whole World in His Hands bull;Blest Be the Tie That Binds bull;Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow bull;Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee bull;Now Thank We All Our God bull;O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing bull;O God Our Help in Ages Past bull;Take My Life and Let It Be bull;Praise Him, Praise Him, All Ye Little Creatures bull;All Night, All Day

Author: Lauren Beth Eisenberg Davis
Publisher: Bookbaby
ISBN: 9781543971910
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Songs of Joshua Tree explores music over the course of history in the area that now comprises Joshua Tree National Park and its gateway towns. This book is the result of the author's work as artist-in-residence at the park in 2014. It provides a folk-life ethnohistorical look, in an accessible story form, at music of the Native Americans who inhabited the park starting in the 1600s; the songs of the homesteaders, miners and cattlemen of the 1800s and 1900s; and the contemporary music scene of the last 50 years.The geographic area covered by the book is Joshua Tree National Park itself, and the towns of Twentynine Palms, Joshua Tree, Yucca Valley, Pioneertown, and Landers - towns whose history is intertwined with that of the park property. The musical genres covered include sacred and leisure music of the Indian tribes, folk music, rock and roll, jazz, classical, and non-traditional forms of music such as therapeutic sound baths, and the natural sounds of the park wilderness. The focus of the book is primarily on music of the people who made the area their home, but also touches on famous musicians who have come to Joshua Tree, to perform, to reflect, to create.

Author: Keith Howard
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190077522
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Famously reclusive and secretive, North Korea can be seen as a theatre that projects itself through music and performance. The first book-length account of North Korean music and dance in any language other than Korean, Songs for "Great Leaders" pulls back the curtain on this theatre for the first time. Renowned ethnomusicologist Keith Howard moves from the first songs written in the northern part of the divided Korean peninsula in 1946 to the performances in February 2018 by a North Korean troupe visiting South Korea for the Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games. Through an exceptionally wide range of sources and a perspective of deep cultural competence, Howard explores old revolutionary songs and new pop songs, developments of Korean instruments, the creation of revolutionary operas, and mass spectacles, as well as dance and dance notation, and composers and compositions. The result is a nuanced and detailed account of how song, together with other music and dance production, forms the soundtrack to the theater of daily life, embedding messages that tell the official history, the exploits of leaders, and the socialist utopia yet-to-come. Based on fieldwork, interviews, and resources in private and public archives and libraries in North Korea, South Korea, China, North America and Europe, Songs for "Great Leaders" opens up the North Korean regime in a way never before attempted or possible.

Author: Georges Jean-Aubry
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 488

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Author: David Budbill
Publisher: Exterminating Angel Press
ISBN: 1935259164
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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?One of the most readable American poets ever” (Booklist) amplifies the voices of an unsung community.

Author: Andrew PARK
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Languages : en
Pages : 68

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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 846

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Author: Roy V. Magers
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Languages : en
Pages : 56

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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 1242

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