Author: Banning Eyre
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822375427
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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Book Description
Like Fela Kuti and Bob Marley, singer, composer, and bandleader Thomas Mapfumo and his music came to represent his native country's anticolonial struggle and cultural identity. Mapfumo was born in 1945 in what was then the British colony of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). The trajectory of his career—from early performances of rock 'n' roll tunes to later creating a new genre based on traditional Zimbabwean music, including the sacred mbira, and African and Western pop—is a metaphor for Zimbabwe's evolution from colony to independent nation. Lion Songs is an authoritative biography of Mapfumo that narrates the life and career of this creative, complex, and iconic figure. Banning Eyre ties the arc of Mapfumo's career to the history of Zimbabwe. The genre Mapfumo created in the 1970s called chimurenga, or "struggle" music, challenged the Rhodesian government—which banned his music and jailed him—and became important to Zimbabwe achieving independence in 1980. In the 1980s and 1990s Mapfumo's international profile grew along with his opposition to Robert Mugabe's dictatorship. Mugabe had been a hero of the revolution, but Mapfumo’s criticism of his regime led authorities and loyalists to turn on the singer with threats and intimidation. Beginning in 2000, Mapfumo and key band and family members left Zimbabwe. Many of them, including Mapfumo, now reside in Eugene, Oregon. A labor of love, Lion Songs is the product of a twenty-five-year friendship and professional relationship between Eyre and Mapfumo that demonstrates Mapfumo's musical and political importance to his nation, its freedom struggle, and its culture.
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9781450801157
Category : Children's songs
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Play and sing 10 charming songs with this real 24-note keyboard sound book. Each spread has notes tha tare easy to match with colorful labels on the piano keys.
Author: Publications International, Limited
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781412735490
Category : Children's songs, English
Languages : en
Pages : 10
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Feature a module with 10 song triggers and five spreads of full bleed art.
Author: Publications International Ltd. Staff
Publisher: PIL Kids
ISBN: 9781412767323
Category : Board books
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Book Description
Read and enjoy these delightful pop-ups, while listening to 4 classic children's songs.
Author: Britt Allcroft
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 10
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Author: Thomas Turino
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226816982
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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Book Description
In 'Music as Social Life', Thomas Turino explores why it is that music and dance are so often at the centre of our most profound personal and social experiences.
Author: I. Kids P
Publisher: p i kids
ISBN: 9781503736122
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Just for Kids Press Staff
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781412746618
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Little Surprise Mirror books combine a 12 page board book with five sound buttons and a surprise mirror. The mirror lights up with three rotating images when the sound button is pushed. The sound buttons play familiar tunes. Thomas travels from the engine shed through the countryside to the station, meeting James, Rosie, Percy and Gordon on the way.
Author: Thomas Forrest Kelly
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0393064964
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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An accessible history of how musicians learned to record music discusses the work of five centuries of religious scholars while demonstrating how people developed methods for measuring rhythm, melody and precise pitch, leading to the technological systems of notation in today's world.
Author: Jared Thomas
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781922142658
Category : Bildungsromans, Australian
Languages : en
Pages : 275
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Book Description
Roxy May Redding's got music in her soul and songs in her blood. She lives in a hot dusty town and is dreaming big. She survives run-ins with the mean girls at high school, sings in her dad's band and babysits for her wayward aunt. But Roxy wants a new start. When she gets the chance to study music in the big city, she takes it. Roxy's new life, her new friends and her music collide in a way she could never have imagined. Being a poor student sucks... navigating her way through the pressure of a national music competition has knobs on it... singing for her dinner is soul destroying... but nothing prepares Roxy for her biggest challenge. Her crush on Ana, the local music journo, forces her to steer her way through a complex maze of emotions alien to this small town girl. Family and friends watch closely as Roxy takes a confronting journey to find out who the hell she is.
