My Voice Is My Weapon

Author : David A. McDonald
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780822378280

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My Voice Is My Weapon by David A. McDonald Pdf

In My Voice Is My Weapon, David A. McDonald rethinks the conventional history of the Palestinian crisis through an ethnographic analysis of music and musicians, protest songs, and popular culture. Charting a historical narrative that stretches from the late-Ottoman period through the end of the second Palestinian intifada, McDonald examines the shifting politics of music in its capacity to both reflect and shape fundamental aspects of national identity. Drawing case studies from Palestinian communities in Israel, in exile, and under occupation, McDonald grapples with the theoretical and methodological challenges of tracing "resistance" in the popular imagination, attempting to reveal the nuanced ways in which Palestinians have confronted and opposed the traumas of foreign occupation. The first of its kind, this book offers an in-depth ethnomusicological analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, contributing a performative perspective to the larger scholarly conversation about one of the world's most contested humanitarian issues.

Author : Mhango, Nkwazi Nkuzi
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9789956762644

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Born with Voice by Mhango, Nkwazi Nkuzi Pdf

Born with Voice examines the psyche and scrape of the victims of various crimes, especially sexual discrimination-cum-exploitation, rape, and the killing of people with albinism. The author digs deeper into the hearts and minds, and plights of victims to inspire the society to stand with, and support them. The book offers some nuggets such as, understanding the phenomenon, confronting it and stopping wars that cause sufferings such as rape and death. It champions the urgency of voice for all and sundry. It challenges the industries of technologies of crime and violence to rise above selfish self-interest in the interest of human rights and voicing the voiceless victims of their greed.

Author : Rebekah Bye
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781312407084

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One Voice: Stepping Through Revised by Rebekah Bye Pdf

Author : Susan Fast,Kip Pegley
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780819573391

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Music, Politics, and Violence by Susan Fast,Kip Pegley Pdf

Music and violence have been linked since antiquity in ritual, myth, and art. Considered together they raise fundamental questions about creativity, discourse, and music’s role in society. The essays in this collection investigate a wealth of issues surrounding music and violence—issues that cross political boundaries, time periods, and media—and provide cross-cultural case studies of musical practices ranging from large-scale events to regionally specific histories. Following the editors’ substantive introduction, which lays the groundwork for conceptualizing new ways of thinking about music as it relates to violence, three broad themes are followed: the first set of essays examines how music participates in both overt and covert forms of violence; the second section explores violence and reconciliation; and the third addresses healing, post-memorials, and memory. Music, Politics, and Violence affords space to look at music as an active agent rather than as a passive art, and to explore how music and violence are closely—and often uncomfortably—entwined. CONTRIBUTORS include Nicholas Attfield, Catherine Baker, Christina Baade, J. Martin Daughtry, James Deaville, David A. McDonald, Kevin C. Miller, Jonathan Ritter, Victor A. Vicente, and Amy Lynn Wlodarski.

Author : Robbie Lieberman
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 0252065255

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My Song is My Weapon by Robbie Lieberman Pdf

In the late 1940s a left-wing organization called People's Songs used their music as a battle cry for civil rights, civil liberties, and world peace. They were inspired by Woody Guthrie, led by Pete Seeger, and sponsored by Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Oscar Hammerstein II, and Paul Robeson among others. Many members of the group were involved in musical and political activities that spanned twenty years and encompassed sweeping changes in the American political arena. --Jacket

Author : Walid El Hamamsy,Mounira Soliman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136228070

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Popular Culture in the Middle East and North Africa by Walid El Hamamsy,Mounira Soliman Pdf

This book explores the body and the production process of popular culture in, and on, the Middle East and North Africa, Turkey, and Iran in the first decade of the 21st century, and up to the current historical moment. Essays consider gender, racial, political, and cultural issues in film, cartoons, music, dance, photo-tattoos, graphic novels, fiction, and advertisements. Contributors to the volume span an array of specializations ranging across literary, postcolonial, gender, media, and Middle Eastern studies and contextualize their views within a larger historical and political moment, analyzing the emergence of a popular expression in the Middle East and North Africa region in recent years, and drawing conclusions pertaining to the direction of popular culture within a geopolitical context. The importance of this book lies in presenting a fresh perspective on popular culture, combining media that are not often combined and offering a topical examination of recent popular production, aiming to counter stereotypical representations of Islamophobia and otherness by bringing together the perspectives of scholars from different cultural backgrounds and disciplines. The collection shows that popular culture can effect changes and alter perceptions and stereotypes, constituting an area where people of different ethnicities, genders, and orientations can find common grounds for expression and connection.

Author : Sandra Thompson Williams
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781490877013

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Seven Miracles of Prevailing Praise by Sandra Thompson Williams Pdf

Everyone could benefit from the miraculous power of God intervening in their lives. Yet most people are clueless as to the powers available to them. This book will walk you through the examples and situations that qualify for miracles in everyday life. “Praise” and “worship” are more than just flippant buzzwords; great power can be obtained through the practice of sincere praise and worship. Seven Miracles of Prevailing Praise will examine seven powerful performances of praise. Your faith will be elevated to new levels as you discover that God cares about everything that concerns his children.

Author : Najat Rahman
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780815653417

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In the Wake of the Poetic by Najat Rahman Pdf

Heralding a new period of creativity, In the Wake of the Poetic explores the aesthetics and politics of Palestinian cultural expression in the last two decades. As it increasingly gains a significant presence on the international scene, much of Palestinian art owes a debt to Mahmoud Darwish, one of the finest contemporary poets, and to Palestinian writers of his generation. Rahman maps the immense influence of Darwish’s poetry on a new generation of performance artists, visual artists, spoken-word poets, and musicians. Through an examination of selected works by key artists—such as Suheir Hammad, Ghassan Zaqtan, Elia Suleiman, Mona Hatoum, Sharif Waked, and others—Rahman articulates an aesthetic founded on loss, dispersion, dispossession, and transformation. It interrupts dominant regimes, constituting acts of dissension and intervention. It reinscribes belonging and is oriented toward solidarity and future. This innovative wave of experimentation transforms our understanding of the national through the diasporic and the transnational, and offers a profound meditation on identity.

Author : William Leiss
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008-05-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780776617756

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The Priesthood of Science by William Leiss Pdf

The global political situation is increasingly volatile, and Hera and her sisters are sealed off from the rest of the world in southern Nevada. She is still tormented by her parents’ decision to genetically modify the brains of their twelve daughters—and by her own agreement to allow a similar procedure to be used on a much larger group of human embryos. That group of engineered embryos has become one thousand young people just turning eighteen, and the gender politics among them is threatening to ruin Hera’s gamble on a new beginning for human society. The Priesthood of Science envisions a future in which scientific research is confined to facilities hidden away from public view and where there is a prohibition against turning scientific discoveries into new technologies in order to keep a world torn apart by religious fanaticism and ethnic hatred under control.

Author : Andrew Skinner
Publisher : Rebellion Publishing Ltd
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781786182289

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Steel Frame by Andrew Skinner Pdf

FLY HARD. Rook is a Jockey, a soldier trained to fly ‘Shells,’ huge robots that fight for the edge of settled space. When her squad is overrun and killed, Rook is imprisoned, left scarred and broken. Hollow and helpless without her steel frame, she’s ready to call it quits. Then she’s sold to NorCol, a vast frontier corporation, given another Shell—a near-decrepit Juno, as broken as she is and centuries older—and sent to a rusting bucket of a ship to patrol “the Eye,” an unnerving permanent storm in space. Where something is stirring...

Author : Michael A. Campbell
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005-11
Category : Forensic scientists
ISBN : 9781597815765

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The Secret Weapon by Michael A. Campbell Pdf

Author : Mark Johnston
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781681395623

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FBI & an Ordinary Guy - The Private Price of Public Service by Mark Johnston Pdf

FBI & An Ordinary Guy, -The Private Price of Public Service - is a memoir about the many chilling, sometimes comical, events in a career as an FBI agent and the personal price some of us paid. For me, coming from a rough childhood I confronted the choices of becoming a clergyman, crook or cop. As an FBI agent in New York and other large American cities, we faced outlaw motorcycle gangs, the Mafia, drug kingpins, and terrorists; land pirates. I personally had many successes, but hard-won victories eventually sapped my energy and spirit. Along the way I had to come to grips with the murders of a squad partner, two New York City cops and several government witnesses. The public knows little about the stress and high emotional costs the guardians of their safety pay in the constant battle against crime and terror. The favorite antidotes of many law enforcement peers —crawling into a bottle or the wrong bed—proved to provide little long-lasting comfort. FBI & An Ordinary Guy reveals the inner working of the FBI, the humanness of its family members, and the real life story behind some of its major cases. But, this factual account is told through a genuine framework of the bitter sweet contrast of the gritty horrors of law enforcement versus affectionate father to daughter communication via never mailed letters to my children.

Author : Simon J. Ortiz
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0816518505

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Speaking for the Generations by Simon J. Ortiz Pdf

Presents profiles of such authors as Leslie Marmon Silko, Gloria Bird, Esther B. Belin, Daniel David Moses, and Victor D. Montejo

Author : Gabriel Conroy
Publisher : J-Novel Club
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781718351202

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John Sinclair: Demon Hunter Volume 1 (English Edition) by Gabriel Conroy Pdf

1977 is a strange year. Things beyond human understanding have begun to surface, threatening the peace and leaving behind an endless trail of blood. When such incidents arise, it is down to Scotland Yard’s Special Division and their Demon Hunter in residence, John Sinclair, to set things right. But Sinclair is haunted by demons of his own, ones which rival the dark forces attacking innocents around him. Can he conquer one to vanquish the other?

Author : Mhango, Nkwazi Nkuzi
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9789956764310

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Perpetual Search by Mhango, Nkwazi Nkuzi Pdf

Perpetual Search is a nerve-numbing piece of poetry that challenges all humans. The odes here want everybody to ask themselves who they think they are. So, too, it explores human nature based on both sides of the coin of the exemplification of human comportment. It is the pursuit aimed at interrogating some human behaviours and practices that are sometimes taken for granted despite having indelible impacts on people's lives. It is about the quest for aptness, communitas, love, happiness, power, wealth, life without questioning how they are attained. It raises questions that seem to be simple but are in fact difficult. The quest for human desire based on the search for a better life and for perfection is at the heart of this collection.