Author: Rudyard Kipling
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Works. [Seven Seas Ed.]
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Works. [Seven Seas Ed.]
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Catalogue...
Author: Ernakulam, India. Maharaja's college. Library
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 150
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 150
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Bulletin
Author:
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Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 736
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ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 736
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Shanties from the Seven Seas
Author: Stan Hugill
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493068288
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 453
Book Description
This book contains not only more than 400 sea shanties but as much of their history as Stan Hugill could collect in his extraordinary career as sailor, scholar, author, artist, and inspiration to new generations of sea-music enthusiasts and performers.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493068288
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 453
Book Description
This book contains not only more than 400 sea shanties but as much of their history as Stan Hugill could collect in his extraordinary career as sailor, scholar, author, artist, and inspiration to new generations of sea-music enthusiasts and performers.
Class List of Books in Literature, Biography, Travel and History in the Lending Library, 1910
Author: Chiswick (England). Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 62
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 62
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The United States Catalog
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2204
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2204
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Works of Edward FitzGerald
Author: Edward FitzGerald
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Work Songs
Author: Ted Gioia
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822387689
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
All societies have relied on music to transform the experience of work. Song accompanied the farmer's labors, calmed the herder's flock, and set in motion the spinner's wheel. Today this tradition continues. Music blares on the shop floor; song accompanies transactions in the retail store; the radio keeps the trucker going on the long-distance haul. Now Ted Gioia, author of several acclaimed books on the history of jazz, tells the story of work songs from prehistoric times to the present. Vocation by vocation, Gioia focuses attention on the rhythms and melodies that have attended tasks such as the cultivation of crops, the raising and lowering of sails, the swinging of hammers, the felling of trees. In an engaging, conversational writing style, he synthesizes a breathtaking amount of material, not only from songbooks and recordings but also from travel literature, historical accounts, slave narratives, folklore, labor union writings, and more. He draws on all of these to describe how workers in societies around the world have used music to increase efficiency, measure time, relay commands, maintain focus, and alleviate drudgery. At the same time, Gioia emphasizes how work songs often soar beyond utilitarian functions. The heart-wringing laments of the prison chain gang, the sailor’s shanties, the lumberjack’s ballads, the field hollers and corn-shucking songs of the American South, the pearl-diving songs of the Persian Gulf, the rich mbube a cappella singing of South African miners: Who can listen to these and other songs borne of toil and hard labor without feeling their sweep and power? Ultimately, Work Songs, like its companion volume Healing Songs, is an impassioned tribute to the extraordinary capacity of music to enter into day-to-day lives, to address humanity’s deepest concerns and most heartfelt needs.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822387689
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
All societies have relied on music to transform the experience of work. Song accompanied the farmer's labors, calmed the herder's flock, and set in motion the spinner's wheel. Today this tradition continues. Music blares on the shop floor; song accompanies transactions in the retail store; the radio keeps the trucker going on the long-distance haul. Now Ted Gioia, author of several acclaimed books on the history of jazz, tells the story of work songs from prehistoric times to the present. Vocation by vocation, Gioia focuses attention on the rhythms and melodies that have attended tasks such as the cultivation of crops, the raising and lowering of sails, the swinging of hammers, the felling of trees. In an engaging, conversational writing style, he synthesizes a breathtaking amount of material, not only from songbooks and recordings but also from travel literature, historical accounts, slave narratives, folklore, labor union writings, and more. He draws on all of these to describe how workers in societies around the world have used music to increase efficiency, measure time, relay commands, maintain focus, and alleviate drudgery. At the same time, Gioia emphasizes how work songs often soar beyond utilitarian functions. The heart-wringing laments of the prison chain gang, the sailor’s shanties, the lumberjack’s ballads, the field hollers and corn-shucking songs of the American South, the pearl-diving songs of the Persian Gulf, the rich mbube a cappella singing of South African miners: Who can listen to these and other songs borne of toil and hard labor without feeling their sweep and power? Ultimately, Work Songs, like its companion volume Healing Songs, is an impassioned tribute to the extraordinary capacity of music to enter into day-to-day lives, to address humanity’s deepest concerns and most heartfelt needs.
The United States Catalog
Author: Mary Burnham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1612
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1612
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