Author: Hollis Taylor
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253026482
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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“A ground-breaking study of the songs of the pied butcherbird . . . intellectually engaging and also very entertaining as a fieldwork memoir.” —The Music Trust How and when does music become possible? Is it a matter of biology, or culture, or an interaction between the two? Revolutionizing the way we think about the core values of music and human exceptionalism, Hollis Taylor takes us on an outback road trip to meet the Australian pied butcherbird. Recognized for their distinct timbre, calls, and songs, both sexes of this songbird sing in duos, trios, and even larger choirs, transforming their flute-like songs annually. While birdsong has long inspired artists, writers, musicians, and philosophers, and enthralled listeners from all walks of life, researchers from the sciences have dominated its study. As a field musicologist, Taylor spends months each year in the Australian outback recording the songs of the pied butcherbird and chronicling their musical activities. She argues persuasively in these pages that their inventiveness in song surpasses biological necessity, compelling us to question the foundations of music and confront the remarkably entangled relationship between human and animal worlds. Equal parts nature essay, memoir, and scholarship, Is Birdsong Music? offers vivid portraits of the extreme locations where these avian choristers are found, quirky stories from the field, and an in-depth exploration of the vocalizations of the pied butcherbird. “Hollis Taylor has given us one of the most serious books ever written on animal music. Is Birdsong Music? is so engaging that all who care about humanity’s place on Earth should read it. We are certainly not the only musicians on this planet.” —David Rothenberg, author of Why Birds Sing
Author: Roger Covell
Publisher: Lyrebird Press lyrebirdpress.music.unimelb.edu.au
ISBN: 073403783X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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Described on its first publication in 1967 as “a scholarly account of Australian music that is also entertaining social history”, Roger Covell’s Austrlaia’s Music: Themes of a New Society has become a classic of Australian music history for its beautifully written explorations of almost two hundred years of music-making across classical, Indigenous and Anglo-Celtic traditions. This revised edition, including more than sixty musical examples, is supplemented by a new postscript written by the author.
Author: British Broadcasting Corporation. Music Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Songs
Languages : en
Pages : 640
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Author: J.W. Love
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351544322
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 1116
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First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Mark Tredinnick
Publisher: UNSW Press
ISBN: 9780868406541
Category : American essays
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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This anthology brings together leading Australian and North American nature writers. Responding to places that sustain, inspire and sometimes sadden, the pieces are propelled by passion, anger and history.
Author: Vance
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1496951751
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 177
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The book begins with religious pages then lead into normal, everyday poetry about patriotism, letters, work, love, and tears then ends with drinking and dying. The intent is to present a mix of easy-to-readand also not-easy-to-readpoems and songs that you may or may not want to read.
Author: Alison McQueen Tokita
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000849287
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 281
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This book explores art song as an emblem of musical modernity in early twentieth-century East Asia and Australia. It appraises the lyrical power of art song – a solo song set to a poem in the local language in Western art music style accompanied by piano – as a vehicle for creating a localized musical identity, while embracing cosmopolitan visions. The study of art song reveals both the tension and the intimacy between cosmopolitanism and local politics and culture. In 20 essays, the book includes overviews of art song development written by scholars from each of the five locales of Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, and Australia, reflecting perspectives of both established narratives and uncharted historiography. The Art Song in East Asia and Australia, 1900 to 1950 proposes listening to the songs of our neighbours across cultural and linguistic boundaries. Recognizing the colonial constraints experienced by art song composers, it hears trans-colonial expressions addressing musical modernity, both in earlier times and now. Readers of this volume will include musicologists, ethnomusicologists, singers, musicians, and researchers concerned with modernity in the fields of poetry and history, working within local, regional, and transnational contexts.
Author: Barry O'Leary
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291037454
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 283
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"Follow Barry around the world as he tells the story of how teaching English as a foreign language changes his life. After doing a TEFL course in London, he flies to South America alone. He has no job to go to but hopes that teaching English will fund his travels - ultimately, it opens up opportunities all over the world...This book is essential for anyone who wants to see how rewarding it can be to teach English in a foreign land" -- from back cover
Author: Eileen Edwards
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 1467886092
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 613
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"Fun And Laughter On A Summer Holiday" continues to show Eileen's amazing observation and her keenness to learn as much as possible about each place she is to visit. Reading about each day is a joy. One day you will be crying with the emotion expressed, but then this will soon be followed with laughter. You will be laughing out loud with Eileen's unique sense of humor.
Author: Andrew K. Smith
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 1621907767
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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"Tex Morton was an early country music star in New Zealand, Australia, and, to a lesser degree, in southern Asia. In a time when the American country-music boom was just beginning to echo around the world, Morton turned his natural talent for yodeling into full-blown country music stardom, even making his way to America for a time. Andrew K. Smith's biography explores Morton's early life, his burgeoning career, his tumultuous stardom, his final years, and his lasting place in the global phenomenon of country music"--
