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The Dance of Freedom

Barry A. Crouch
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Author : Barry A. Crouch
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 029278239X

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This anthology brings together the late Barry A. Crouch's most important articles on the African American experience in Texas during Reconstruction. Grouped topically, the essays explore what freedom meant to the newly emancipated, how white Texans reacted to the freed slaves, and how Freedmen's Bureau agents and African American politicians worked to improve the lot of ordinary African American Texans. The volume also contains Crouch's seminal review of Reconstruction historiography, "Unmanacling Texas Reconstruction: A Twenty-Year Perspective." The introductory pieces by Arnoldo De Leon and Larry Madaras recapitulate Barry Crouch's scholarly career and pay tribute to his stature in the field of Reconstruction history.

I Want to Be Ready

Danielle Goldman
I Want to Be Ready Book PDF

Author : Danielle Goldman
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780472050840

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A conceptual framework for understanding the development of improvised dance in late 20th-century America

Freedom's Dance

Karen Celestan
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Author : Karen Celestan
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780807168837

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In this pivotal book, the captivating and kinetic images of noted photographer Eric Waters are paired with a collection of insightful essays by preeminent authors and cultural leaders to offer the first complete look at the Social, Aid and Pleasure Club (SAPC) parade culture in New Or-leans. Ranging from ideological approaches to the contributions of musicians, development of specific rituals by various clubs, and parade accessories such as elaborately decorated fans and sashes, Freedom’s Dance provides an unparalleled photographic and textual overview of the SAPC Second Line, tracking its origins in African traditions and subsequent development in black New Orleans culture. Karen Celestan’s vibrant narrative is supplemented with interviews of longtime culture-bearers such as Oliver “Squirk” Hunter, Lois Andrews (mother of Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews and James Andrews), Fred Johnson, Gregory Davis, and Lionel Batiste, while interdisciplinary essays by leading scholars detail the rituals, historic perspective, and purpose of the Second Line. Freedom’s Dance defines this unique pub-lic-private phenomenon and captures every aspect of the Second Line, from SAPC members’ rollicking introductions at their annual parade to a funeral procession on its way to the crypt. Visually dazzling and critically important, Freedom’s Dance serves as both a celebration and a deep exploration of this understudied but immediately recognizable aspect of the African American tradition in the Big Easy.

Dance of Freedom and Desire

Shashi de Soysa
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Author : Shashi de Soysa
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781499074079

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Dance of Freedom and Desire by Shashi de Soysa Pdf

This is a story of an immigrant, a woman who migrates from Sri Lanka to the United States in search of freedom from societal constraints. She travels across the world with a six year old daughter in pursuit of further education. The narrative outlines the challenges she faces as she adjusts to her new life, raising her daughter as a single parent and learning to play the multiple roles of parent, student and breadwinner. She learns to balance the pursuit of freedom with her desire for love, family, friendship and career, a balancing act she describes as a “dance of freedom and desire”.

Freedom

Jaycee Dugard
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Author : Jaycee Dugard
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501147630

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Freedom by Jaycee Dugard Pdf

"In the follow-up to ... A Stolen Life, [kidnapping survivor] Jaycee Dugard tells the story of her first experiences after years in captivity: the joys that accompanied her newfound freedom and the challenges of adjusting to life on her own"--Provided by publisher.

Dancing to Freedom

Li Cunxin
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Author : Li Cunxin
Publisher : Walker Childrens
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008-07-22
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0802797776

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Dancing to Freedom by Li Cunxin Pdf

In a poor village in northern China, a small boy named Li Cunxin was given the chance of a lifetime. Selected by Chairman Mao's officials from among millions of children to become a dancer, Li's new life began as he left his family behind. At the Beijing Dance Academy, days were long and difficult. Li's hard work was rewarded when he was chosen yet again, this time to travel to America. From there his career took flight, and he danced in cities around the world—never forgetting his family, who urged him to follow his dreams.

Dancing Into Freedom?

Heidi Giersch
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Author : Heidi Giersch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 176109016X

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Dancing Into Freedom? by Heidi Giersch Pdf

'In 1980 on her defection, Heidi captivated the people of this nation' - Paul Connor Come into Heidi's world. Her unique true story of a girl growing up in East Berlin, behind the Iron Curtain and the Berlin Wall, begins the moment she was chosen to go to ballet school. Through discipline, passion and talent she delighted audiences as she performed with major East German dance companies. Her heartfelt recollections of family, life and her career in East Germany, and the challenges of the Cold War in a controlled communist society are recounted with wisdom and insight. Heidi's life changed dramatically, following her thrilling defection to Australia, where she still lives. With her love for life she had the courage and tenacity to choose freedom against all odds. Join Heidi in the colourful dance through the changing phases of her life. 'There is a price to pay for every decision we make, but never ever give up hope. Say "yes" to change' - Heidi Giersch

Flight

Susan Slotnick
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Author : Susan Slotnick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1079554904

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Susan was born to a mother cold and pretentious, and a father distant and, as she recalls, "most likely borderline autistic." Not the best nurturing environment for a gifted child, so she rebelled: flunking out of school; befriending those her mother would have considered "undesirables;" basically, living a life completely at odds to the one that would have ordinarily been "expected."But it was those early experiences that showed Susan how difficult life was for so many; it instilled in her a passionate zeal to help "the marginalized, the forgotten and the disenfranchised." And this interest in social justice has been "present" throughout her entire adult life.It is no wonder Susan as the choreographer, the painter, the writer, the dancer, has consistently used all her art forms as instruments to promote human rights and the concept of equality.Nowhere has that combination of creativity and activism been more compelling, and more successful, than with her teaching modern dance for the past 20 years to men imprisoned within the NYS correctional system. Her dance company, named "Figures In Flight," has garnered much critical and professional acclaim. A documentary about her work, entitled "The Game Changer," won Best Documentary Short at both the Harlem and Cannes film festivals. But the ultimate award for Susan's lifetime work must be how those men felt, aloft and moving, dancing to Sam Cooke's "A Change Is Gonna Come." We can only "Imagine." But Susan knows.

We Have a Religion

Tisa Joy Wenger
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Author : Tisa Joy Wenger
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780807832622

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For Native Americans, religious freedom has been an elusive goal. From nineteenth-century bans on indigenous ceremonial practices to twenty-first-century legal battles over sacred lands, peyote use, and hunting practices, the U.S. government has often act

Freedom to Dance

Dagmar Simon,Francesca Horsley,Raewyn Thorburn
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Author : Dagmar Simon,Francesca Horsley,Raewyn Thorburn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Dance teachers
ISBN : 1927167272

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Freedom to Dance by Dagmar Simon,Francesca Horsley,Raewyn Thorburn Pdf

Freedom to Dance is the story of a remarkable Dutch dance teacher, Boukje van Zon, whose influence is still felt throughout New Zealand more than 50 years after starting Van Zon School of Creative Dancing in West Auckland. As a teenager in Friesland, the Netherlands, Boukje discovered that dance and movement could reach deep into a person's being and bring about personal growth. She was part of a European movement where pre-conceived ways of thinking in arts and teaching were being overturned. Boukje brought these innovations with her when she migrated to New Zealand with husband Maurice in the 1950s. From her new home in Titirangi, she established a dance school with a difference. Children did not begin with steps, rather they explored the freedom of movement. Soon their mothers asked for a class of their own so they could explore space, time and movement; then as her reputation spread, adult students established a performance group and produced avant garde works. And so the Van Zon School of Creative Dancing expanded exponentially across Auckland. Boukje was ahead of her time. She embraced all realms of the dance voice and drew out and nurtured the creative impulses of each student. She was also part of her time and rode the crest of social change that was transforming New Zealand from a deeply conservative society to a liberal, open one. Boukje's story embraces the turbulence of 20th century political conflict, nationhood, cultural identity and creative endeavour. It offers snapshots of Europe in the 1930s and 1940s, and New Zealand in the 1950s and 1960s as seen through the lens of a Dutch migrant. Freedom to Dance explores a time and place through the creative lens of a woman of her time, whose voice transcends time.

The Law of Love & Its Fabulous Frequency of Freedom

Jasmuheen
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Author : Jasmuheen
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781847998460

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The Law of Love & Its Fabulous Frequency of Freedom by Jasmuheen Pdf

An extensive manual filled with powerful life transforming meditations which also details the Ancient Taoist Masters techniques for Immortality plus Futuristic Science tools of Inter-Dimensional Matrix Mechanics for Jasmuheen's Freedom from Human Limitation Agenda. This research covers freedom from the need to age or create dis-ease; freedom from the need to take food or liquid as we learn how to create a self sustaining bio-system; freedom to express our Divine nature and all its gifts and glories ... plus tested methods for determining our personal readiness levels for these freedoms!

Freedom in Congo Square

Carole Boston Weatherford
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Author : Carole Boston Weatherford
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-17
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781499804799

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Chosen as a New York Times Best Illustrated Book of 2016, this poetic, nonfiction story about a little-known piece of African American history captures a human's capacity to find hope and joy in difficult circumstances and demonstrates how New Orleans' Congo Square was truly freedom's heart. Mondays, there were hogs to slop, mules to train, and logs to chop. Slavery was no ways fair. Six more days to Congo Square. As slaves relentlessly toiled in an unjust system in 19th century Louisiana, they all counted down the days until Sunday, when at least for half a day they were briefly able to congregate in Congo Square in New Orleans. Here they were free to set up an open market, sing, dance, and play music. They were free to forget their cares, their struggles, and their oppression. This story chronicles slaves' duties each day, from chopping logs on Mondays to baking bread on Wednesdays to plucking hens on Saturday, and builds to the freedom of Sundays and the special experience of an afternoon spent in Congo Square. This book will have a forward from Freddi Williams Evans (freddievans.com), a historian and Congo Square expert, as well as a glossary of terms with pronunciations and definitions. AWARDS: A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2016 A School Library Journal Best Book of 2016: Nonfiction Starred reviews from School Library Journal, Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, and The Horn Book Magazine

Decolonizing Freedom

Allison Weir
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Author : Allison Weir
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780197507940

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Freedom is celebrated as the definitive ideal of modern western civilization. Yet in western thought and practice, freedom has been defined through opposition to the unfreedom of most of the world's people. Allison Weir draws on Indigenous political theories and practices of decolonization in dialogue with western theories, to reconstruct a tradition of relational freedom as a distinctive political conception of freedom: a radically democratic mode of engagement and participation in social and political relations with an infinite range of strange and diverse beings perceived as free agents in interdependent relations in a shared world.

Mao's Last Dancer

Li Cunxin
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Author : Li Cunxin
Publisher : Random House Australia
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Ballet dancers
ISBN : 9781760899219

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Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin Pdf

Before you can fly, you have to be free. A new edition of the phenomenal international bestseller. From bitter poverty to the stardom of the West - this is the extraordinary true story of one boy's great courage and determinationIn a small, desperately poor village in north-east China, a young peasant boy sits at his rickety old school desk, more interested in the birds outside than in Chairman Mao's Red Book and the grand words it contains. But that day, some strange men come to his school - Madame Mao's cultural delegates. They are looking for young peasants to mould into faithful guards of Chairman Mao's great vision for China..This is the true story of how that one moment in time, by the thinnest thread of a chance, changed the course of a small boy's life in ways that are beyond description. One day he would dance with some of the greatest ballet companies of the world. One day he would be a friend to a president and first lady, movie stars and the most influential people in America. One day he would become a star: Mao's last dancer, and the darling of the West. Since its release in 2003, Mao's Last Dancer has sold all around the world and been made into a major motion picture. Like millions of other peasants' lives, it was a story that nearly vanished amidst revolution and chaos. It's a story of courage, a mother's love, a young boy's longing for freedom - a beautiful, rich account of an inspirational life, told with honesty, dignity and pride.

A State of Freedom

Neel Mukherjee
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Author : Neel Mukherjee
Publisher : Random House
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473523104

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Longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature What happens when we attempt to exchange the life we are given for something better? Five people, in very different circumstances, from a domestic cook in Mumbai, to a vagrant and his dancing bear, and a girl who escapes terror in her home village for a new life in the city, find out the meanings of dislocation, and the desire for more. Set in contemporary India and moving between the reality of this world and the shadow of another, this novel delivers a devastating and haunting exploration of the unquenchable human urge to strive for a different life.