Island Songs

Author : Alex Wheatle
Publisher : Allison & Busby
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780749013721

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Island Songs by Alex Wheatle Pdf

'Alex Wheatle writes from a place of honesty and passion with the full knowledge and understanding that change can only happen through words and actions.’ Steve McQueen. Alex Wheatle's life is the basis for an episode of McQueen's Small Axe airing November 2020. 'Grabs your heart, not with pity but wonder that such beauty can come from such a life' The Independent ‘She wondered what kind of world she had brought her two daughters into – the tedious cycle of rural Jamaican life. No chance for them to set off upon adventures and see the outside world.’ But sisters Jenny and Hortense Rodney, descendants of the fierce Maroon people, do get to see the outside world, and Island Songs is their story. Growing up in rural Claremont, working amid the hustle and bustle, lawn parties and ‘houses of joy’ in Trenchtown, the two sisters take a chance and move to England with their husbands, that far-off land of riches, where they settle down to motherhood among the jazz cafés and bleak streets of Brixton. A hauntingly beautifully written evocation of twentieth-century Jamaica, its history and traditions, Island Songs is an epic of love, laughter and sorely tested family loyalties. Many stories are told, but many more secrets are never revealed.

Author : Godfrey Baldacchino
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780810881778

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Island Songs by Godfrey Baldacchino Pdf

"Through the close analysis of musical performance and tradition, the scholarly contributiors to Island Songs provide a global review of how island songs, their lyrics, and their singers engage with the challenges of modernity, migration, and social change uncovering common patterns despite the diversity and local character of their subjects"--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1992-03-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780820323893

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Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands by Anonim Pdf

A valuable collection of folk music and lore from the Gullah culture, Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands preserves the rich traditions of slave descendants on the barrier islands of Georgia by interweaving their music with descriptions of their language, religious and social customs, and material culture. Collected over a period of nearly twenty-five years by Lydia Parrish, the sixty folk songs and attendant lore included in this book are evidence of antebellum traditions kept alive in the relatively isolated coastal regions of Georgia. Over the years, Parrish won the confidence of many of the African-American singers, not only collecting their songs but also discovering other elements of traditional culture that formed the context of those songs. When it was first published in 1942, Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands contained much material that had not previously appeared in print. The songs are grouped in categories, including African survival songs; shout songs; ring-play, dance, and fiddle songs; and religious and work songs. In additions to the lyrics and melodies, Slave Songs includes Lydia Parrish's explanatory notes, character sketches of her informants, anecdotes, and a striking portfolio of photographs. Reproduced in its original oversized format, Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands will inform and delight students and scholars of African-American culture and folklore as well as folk music enthusiasts.

Author : Boyle Townshend Somerville
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HXCR6E

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Songs and Specimens of the Language of New Georgia, Solomon Islands by Boyle Townshend Somerville Pdf

Author : Hal Leonard Corp.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1495075737

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The Most Requested Island Songs by Hal Leonard Corp. Pdf

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). A thorough collection of over 60 tunes perfect for island life, including: Bali Ha'i * Beyond the Sea * Blue Hawaii * Coconut * Could You Be Loved * Don't Worry, Be Happy * Electric Avenue * Escape (The Pina Colada Song) * I Can See Clearly Now * Island Girl * Kokomo * No Shoes No Shirt (No Problems) * Over the Rainbow * Red, Red Wine * Redemption Song * Rivers of Babylon * Surfer Girl * The Tide Is High * Tiny Bubbles * and many more.

Author : Kelly Powell
Publisher : Margaret K. McElderry Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781534438095

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Songs from the Deep by Kelly Powell Pdf

A girl searches for a killer on an island where deadly sirens lurk just beneath the waves in this “twisty, atmospheric story that grips readers like a siren song” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). The sea holds many secrets. Moira Alexander has always been fascinated by the deadly sirens who lurk along the shores of her island town. Even though their haunting songs can lure anyone to a swift and watery grave, she gets as close to them as she can, playing her violin on the edge of the enchanted sea. When a young boy is found dead on the beach, the islanders assume that he’s one of the sirens’ victims. Moira isn’t so sure. Certain that someone has framed the boy’s death as a siren attack, Moira convinces her childhood friend, the lighthouse keeper Jude Osric, to help her find the real killer, rekindling their friendship in the process. With townspeople itching to hunt the sirens down, and their own secrets threatening to unravel their fragile new alliance, Moira and Jude must race against time to stop the killer before it’s too late—for humans and sirens alike.

Author : Madeleine Bunting
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781783784622

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Island Song by Madeleine Bunting Pdf

In 1940, Helene, young, naive, and recently married, waves goodbye to her husband, who has enlisted in the British army. Her home, Guernsey, is soon invaded by the Germans, leaving her exposed to the hardships of occupation. Forty years later, her daughter, Roz, begins a search for the truth about her father, and stumbles into the secret history of her mother's life. Written with emotional acuity and passionate intensity, Island Song speaks of the moral complexities of war-time allegiances, the psychological toll of living with the enemy and the messy reality of human relationships in a tightly knit community. As Roz discovers, truth is hard to pin down, and so are the rights and wrongs of those struggling to survive in the most difficult of circumstances.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Popular music
ISBN : UOM:39015048342110

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Authentic Island Songs by Anonim Pdf

Author : Hal Leonard Corp
Publisher : Ukulele Chord Songbook
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 1458410986

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Island Songs by Hal Leonard Corp Pdf

"Includes complete lyrics, chord symbols & ukulele chord diagrams"--Cover.

Author : Emma Brodie
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593318621

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Songs in Ursa Major by Emma Brodie Pdf

"A scintillating debut from a major new voice in fiction, alive with music, sex, and fame, Songs in Ursa Major is a love story set in 1969 at the crossroads of rock and folk, for fans of Daisy Jones & The Six"--

Author : Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Publisher : Arp Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Canadian fiction
ISBN : 189403788X

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Islands of Decolonial Love by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Pdf

In her debut collection of short stories, Islands of Decolonial Love, renowned writer and activist Leanne Simpson vividly explores the lives of contemporary Indigenous Peoples and communities, especially those of her own Nishnaabeg nation. Found on reserves, in cities and small towns, in bars and curling rinks, canoes and community centres, doctors offices and pickup trucks, Simpson's characters confront the often heartbreaking challenge of pairing the desire to live loving and observant lives with a constant struggle to simply survive the historical and ongoing injustices of racism and colonialism. Told with voices that are rarely recorded but need to be heard, and incorporating the language and history of her people, Leanne Simpson's Islands of Decolonial Love is a profound, important, and beautiful book of fiction.

Author : Lillis Ó Laoire
Publisher : Europea: Ethnomusicologies and
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131669611

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On a Rock in the Middle of the Ocean by Lillis Ó Laoire Pdf

Individual desire and overcoming the rigors of social scrutiny are important factors in the development of an active public performer. In a special study of one song, Lillis O Laoire shows how the song itself emerges as a mediator of dilemmas and tensions of island life. In a meticulous exposition of the links between music, text, and performance, the vicissitudes of island life are revealed, while these tensions are alleviated by singing humorous ribald items to provide a deliberate contrast.

Author : Asiatic Society of Japan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : UCD:31175033952683

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Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan by Asiatic Society of Japan Pdf

List of transactions, v. 1-41 in v. 41.

Author : Hal Leonard Corp.
Publisher : Hal Leonard
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781705152300

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Christmas Sheet Music Anthology by Hal Leonard Corp. Pdf

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). Over 100 essential standards, carols, pop hits, fun songs, and more, in one gorgeous collection. Includes: All I Want for Christmas Is You * Blue Christmas * Do You Hear What I Hear * Feliz Navidad * Frosty the Snow Man * Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas * Jingle Bells * The Little Drummer Boy * Mary, Did You Know? * Mele Kalikimaka * The Most Wonderful Time of the Year * O Holy Night * Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer * Santa Baby * Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town * Silent Night * Silver Bells * Where Are You Christmas? * White Christmas * and more.

Author : Andrea Levy
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143176824

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The Long Song by Andrea Levy Pdf

You do not know me yet but I am the narrator of this work. My son Thomas, who is printing this book, tells me it is customary at this place in a novel to give the reader a little taste of the story that is held within its pages. As your storyteller, I am to convey that this tale is set in Jamaica during the last turbulent years of slavery and the early years of freedom that followed. July is a slave girl who lives upon a sugar plantation called Amity and it is her life that is the subject of this tale. She was there when the Baptist War raged in 1831, and she was also present when slavery was declared no more. My son says I must convey how the story also tells of July's mama, Kitty; of the negroes that worked the plantation land; of Caroline Mortimer, the white woman who owned the plantation; and many more persons besides—far too many for me to list here. But what befalls them all is carefully chronicled upon these pages for you to peruse. Perhaps, my son suggests, I might write that it is a thrilling journey through that time in the company of people who lived it. All this he wishes me to pen so the reader can decide if this is a novel they might care to consider. Cha, I tell my son, what fuss-fuss. Come, let them just read it for themselves.