Author: Floyd Skloot
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838755020
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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Poet, essayist, and novelist Floyd Skloot continues his exploration of human resilience in 'The Fiddler's Trance', his third full-length collection of poems. Skloot's poems investigate the phenomenon of sudden change in our lives, when all we understood about ourselves and our worlds is called into question and we must find a new way of seeing.
Author: Floyd Skloot
Publisher: Pudding House Publications
ISBN: 9781589980242
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Author: Sid Wright
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1524592943
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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Toby Malloy fights for justice in Toecap and the Fiddler. Born and raised in the Lake District, Toby takes on a secret double life as a crime fighter Toecappitted against evil mastermind the Fiddler.
Author: Gilbert Rouget
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226730069
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 419
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Ritual trance has always been closely associated with music—but why, and how? Gilbert Rouget offers and extended analysis of music and trance, concluding that no universal law can explain the relations between music and trance; they vary greatly and depend on the system of meaning of their cultural context. Rouget rigorously examines a worldwide corpus of data from ethnographic literature, but he also draws on the Bible, his own fieldwork in West Africa, and the writings of Plato, Ghazzali, and Rousseau. To organize this immense store of information, he develops a typology of trance based on symbolism and external manifestations. He outlines the fundamental distinctions between trance and ecstasy, shamanism and spirit possession, and communal and emotional trance. Music is analyzed in terms of performers, practices, instruments, and associations with dance. Each kind of trance draws strength from music in different ways at different points in a ritual, Rouget concludes. In possession trance, music induces the adept to identify himself with his deity and allows him to express this identification through dance. Forcefully rejecting pseudo-science and reductionism, Rouget demystifies the so-called theory of the neurophysiological effects of drumming on trance. He concludes that music's physiological and emotional effects are inseparable from patterns of collective representations and behavior, and that music and trance are linked in as many ways as there are cultural structures.
Author: Arne Nørrevang
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Norwegian drama
Languages : en
Pages : 124
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Author: Chris Haigh
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9780879309787
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Presents an introduction to the fiddle, explores how musicians incorporate the instrument into different genres, and offers instruction on playing standard songs.
Author: Doc Trap
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462823963
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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An unwanted boy from a large city becomes a man on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. His future father -in-law is held by the boy dying in the surf from a gunshot wound. A minister paints violent paintings, a city editor investigates murder while the daughter of a wealthy fox hunter marries a weakling. The memory of a yellow bird killed by a troubled child flashes across the mind of a mate on a fishing boat as a giant Marlin is pulled aboard. The FBI investigates and natures wrath pounds the shores of The Graveyard of The Atlantic as two seemingly opposite personalities are drawn together both striving to answer the unanswerable. The solution is in the little black eyes of a Fiddler Crab.
Author: Marc Hudson
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838755068
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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"The poems in Marc Hudson's The Disappearing Poet Blues are driven by a moral anguish: how do we live, they ask, in strict circumstances; what is the worth of profoundly limited human life; how can one be both a good father and a good artist?"--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author: Laura Forsythe
Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN: 1772840750
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 239
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Honouring the scholarship of Métis matriarchs While surveying the field of Indigenous studies, Laura Forsythe and Jennifer Markides recognized a critical need for not only a Métis-focused volume, but one dedicated to the contributions of Métis women. To address this need, they brought together work by new and established scholars, artists, storytellers, and community leaders that reflects the diversity of research created by Métis women as it is lived, considered, conceptualized, and re-imagined. With writing by Emma LaRocque and other forerunners of Métis studies, Around the Kitchen Table looks beyond the patriarchy to document and celebrate the scholarship of Métis women. Focusing on experiences in post-secondary environments, this collection necessarily traverses a range of methodologies. Spanning disciplines of social work, education, history, health care, urban studies, sociology, archaeology, and governance, contributors bring their own stories to explorations of spirituality, material culture, colonialism, land-based education, sexuality, language, and representation. The result is an expansive, heartfelt, and accessible community of Métis thought. Reverent and revelatory, this collection centres the strong aunties and grandmothers who have shaped Métis communities, culture, and identities with teachings shared in classrooms, auditoriums, and around the kitchen table.
Author: Brooke Horvath
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809324392
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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"We wait for baseball all winter long," Bill Littlefield wrote in Boston Magazine a decade ago, "or rather, we remember it and anticipate it at the same time. We re-create what we have known and we imagine what we are going to do next. Maybe that's what poets do, too." Poetry and baseball are occasions for well-put passion and expressive pondering, and just as passionate attention transforms the prose of everyday life into poetry, it also transforms this game we write about, play, or watch. Editors Brooke Horvath and Tim Wiles unite their own passion for baseball and poetry in this collection, Line Drives: 100 Contemporary Baseball Poems, providing a forum for ninety-two poets. Line after line, like baseball itself game after game and season after season, these poems manage to make the old and the familiar new and surprising. The poems in these pages invite interrogation, and the reader--like the true baseball fan--must be willing to play the game, for these poems are fun, fresh, angry, nostalgic, meditative, and meant to be read aloud. They are keen on taking us deeply into baseball as sport and intent on offering countless metaphors for exploring history, religion, love, family, and self-identity. Each poem delivers images of pure beauty as the poets speak of murder and ghost runners and old ball gloves, of baseball as a tie that binds families--and indeed the nation--together, of the game as a stage upon which no-nonsense grit and skill are routinely displayed, and of the delight experienced in being one amid a mindlessly happy crowd. This book is true to the game's long season and to the lives of those the game engages.
