The Many Worlds Of Music

Author : Dean Birkenkamp
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781000956658

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The Many Worlds of David Amram by Dean Birkenkamp Pdf

In a career spanning 70 years, composer, conductor, and multi-instrumentalist David Amram is hailed today as the creator of symphonic works, chamber music, and two operas; as a brilliant jazz and vocal improviser; and the composer of memorable stage and film scores. He has collaborated with many leading musicians, playwrights, artists, actors, and writers, including Jack Kerouac, Woody Guthrie, Leonard Bernstein, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan, Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, Elmira Darvarova, Paul Newman, Willie Nelson, Steve Earle, and hundreds more. An innovator who blended jazz and global folk styles with classical traditions, Amram’s career also emphasizes the creative potential of joyful collaboration. This new book offers a fascinating and wide-ranging picture of Amram’s work and influence, from the rich, pioneering days of 1950s America to today’s embrace of international cultures. It shows how Amram’s gift as an on-stage spontaneous creator enriches his formal classical composing. With multi-media links for readers, it is possible to see and hear film and audio highlights and adventures described in this book by important conductors, musicians, performers, scholars, and journalists. This book is the essential guide to a major figure in contemporary music.

Author : Sarala Devi Chaudhurani
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Social reformers
ISBN : 8187358319

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The Many Worlds of Sarala Devi by Sarala Devi Chaudhurani Pdf

This charming book The Many Worlds of Sarala Deri and The Tagores and Sartorial Styles, as the titles suggest, contain two separate but related writings on the Tagores. The Tagores were a pre-eminent family which became synonymous with the cultural regeneration of India, specifically of Bengal, in the ninteenth century. --

Author : Christopher Edge
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781524713584

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The Many Worlds of Albie Bright by Christopher Edge Pdf

Fun science meets humor and heart in this adventure about a boy who is searching for his mother . . . in a parallel universe. Stephen Albie Bright leads a happy, normal life. Well, as normal as it gets with two astrophysicist parents who named their son after their favorite scientists, Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein. But then Albie’s mother dies of cancer, and his world is shattered. When his father explains that she might be alive in a parallel universe, Albie knows he has to find her. So, armed with a box, a laptop, and a banana, Albie sets out to do just that. Of course, when you’re universe-hopping for the very first time, it’s difficult to find the one you want. As Albie searches, he discovers some pretty big surprises about himself and our universe(s), and stumbles upon the answers to life’s most challenging questions. A poignant, funny, and heartwarming adventure, this extraordinary novel is for anyone who has ever been curious. Praise for The Many Worlds of Albie Bright: “A big book with a big brain, big laughs, and a big, big heart.” —FRANK COTTRELL BOYCE, New York Times bestselling author of Millions and Cosmic “Hilarious and full of heart.” —PIERS TORDAY, author of The Last Wild “I’d love this book in all the worlds. Heartbreaking, heartwarming, heartstopping. Amazing.” —HOLLY SMALE, author of the award-winning Geek Girl series “Heartwarming.” —The Guardian “Proves the theory that novels about science can be enormous fun.” —The Times Children’s Book of the Week (UK) “Moving, and exploding with scientific ideas and wonder.” —The Herald (UK)

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020852062

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The Many Worlds of Music by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sukhendu Ray,Malavika Karlekar,Bharati Ray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781351586474

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The Many Worlds of Sarala Devi: A Diary & The Tagores and Sartorial Style: A Photo Essay by Sukhendu Ray,Malavika Karlekar,Bharati Ray Pdf

This charming book The Many Worlds of Sarala Devi and The Tagores and Sartorial Styles, as the titles suggest, contain two separate but related writings on the Tagores. The Tagores were a pre-eminent family which became synonymous with the cultural regeneration of India, specifically of Bengal, in the nineteenth century. The first writing is a sensitive translation of Sarala Devis memoirs from the Bengali, Jeevaner Jharapata, by Sukhendu Ray. It is the first autobiography written by a nationalist woman leader of India. Sarala Devi was Rabindranath Tagores niece and had an unusual life. The translation unfolds, among other things, what it was like to grow up in a big affluent house Jorasanko, that had more than 116 inmates and a dozen cooks! The second writing by Malavika Karlekar is a photo essay, creatively conceived, visually reflecting the social and cultural trends of the times, through styles of dress, jewellery and accoutrements. The modern style of wearing a sari was introduced by Jnanadanandini Devi, a member of the Tagore family. The introduction by the well-known historian, Bharati Ray, very perceptively captures the larger context of family, marriage, womens education and politics of the time which touched Sarala Devis life. She points out that if memoirs are a kind of social history then womens diaries record social influences not found in official accounts and are therefore, a rich source of documentation.

Author : Broadcast Music, Inc
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015009738447

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The Many Worlds of Music by Broadcast Music, Inc Pdf

Author : Silvia Anastasijevic,Magdalena Pfalzgraf,Hanna Teichler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350374089

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The Many Worlds of Anglophone Literature by Silvia Anastasijevic,Magdalena Pfalzgraf,Hanna Teichler Pdf

On what terms and concepts can we ground the comparative study of Anglophone literatures and cultures around the world today? What, if anything, unites the novels of Witi Ihimaera, the speculative fiction of Nnedi Okorafor, the life-writings by Stuart Hall, and the emerging Anglophone Arab literature by writers like Omar Robert Hamilton? This volume explores the globality of Anglophone fiction both as a conceptual framing and as a literary imaginary. It highlights the diversity of lives and worlds represented in Anglophone writing, as well as the diverse imaginations of transnational connections articulated in it. Featuring a variety of internationally renowned scholars, this book thinks through Anglophone literature not as a problematic legacy of colonial rule or as exoticizing commodity in a global literary marketplace but examines it as an inherently transcultural literary medium. Contributors provide new insights into how it facilitates the articulation of divergent experiences of modernity and the critique of hierarchies and inequalities within, among, and beyond post-colonial societies.

Author : Robert Sugarman
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781443811774

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The Many Worlds of Circus by Robert Sugarman Pdf

Acrobats and manipulators of objects, trained animals, and clowns – have been performing throughout history. In the eighteenth century, the invention of the circus ring provided a focus for the activities, and the modern circus was born. Once the circus was the most spectacular entertainment many Americans saw. When the supply of cheap labor disappeared and other forms of entertainment became available, the giant circuses shrank, and in the last quarter of the twentieth century new one ring circuses returned. The Circus and Circus Culture area of the Popular Culture Association has been examining circus history, circus life, the relationship of circus to society, and the impact of circus on the visual and literary arts since 1997. This book is a collection of papers from its annual conferences. "This fascinating collection showcases the transnational richness and cultural depth of the circus in an array of historical and contemporary settings. Strongly recommended for circus enthusiasts and students of popular culture, history, and theater." —Janet M.Davis, Associate Professor, Chair of the Department of American Studies, College of Liberal Arts at UT Austin, author of The Circus Age: Culture and Society under the American Big Top

Author : Michael Davies
Publisher : DoctorZed Publishing
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780981808703

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The Many Worlds of Mickie Dalton by Michael Davies Pdf

Life for twelve year old Mickie Dalton is miserable. Cold, abusive parents make his home intolerable. So when Mickie meets a young couple in the park, an escape opens up. They tell him an astounding truth - Mickie is not a human being, though just what he is, where he came from and how he came to be on Earth are all a mystery. Mickie joins his new guardians on an immense spaceship that travels the Universe, even between galaxies, trading with many intelligent species on other planets as he seeks out his origins and nature. Slowly, he begins to develop extraordinary powers that must have been part of his people. As he also starts to find strange hints of what may have happened, he learns that he is one of an ancient race, the Pfafth who once ruled over forty galaxies but vanished without trace a million years ago. But other forces learn of Mickie's presence, huge forces of immense evil and power that were the cause of the destruction of the Pfafth and now they are intent on finding Mickie and his vanished people so that they can complete the destruction of that ancient race. A million year old war has started again and Mickie must draw on all his astonishing, growing powers and seek the help of allies, some strange, some beautiful, some terrifying as he seeks his people to prevent their end.

Author : Peter Byrne
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780191655227

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The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett III by Peter Byrne Pdf

Peter Byrne tells the story of Hugh Everett III (1930-1982), whose "many worlds" theory of multiple universes has had a profound impact on physics and philosophy. Using Everett's unpublished papers (recently discovered in his son's basement) and dozens of interviews with his friends, colleagues, and surviving family members, Byrne paints, for the general reader, a detailed portrait of the genius who invented an astonishing way of describing our complex universe from the inside. Everett's mathematical model (called the "universal wave function") treats all possible events as "equally real", and concludes that countless copies of every person and thing exist in all possible configurations spread over an infinity of universes: many worlds. Afflicted by depression and addictions, Everett strove to bring rational order to the professional realms in which he played historically significant roles. In addition to his famous interpretation of quantum mechanics, Everett wrote a classic paper in game theory; created computer algorithms that revolutionized military operations research; and performed pioneering work in artificial intelligence for top secret government projects. He wrote the original software for targeting cities in a nuclear hot war; and he was one of the first scientists to recognize the danger of nuclear winter. As a Cold Warrior, he designed logical systems that modeled "rational" human and machine behaviors, and yet he was largely oblivious to the emotional damage his irrational personal behavior inflicted upon his family, lovers, and business partners. He died young, but left behind a fascinating record of his life, including correspondence with such philosophically inclined physicists as Niels Bohr, Norbert Wiener, and John Wheeler. These remarkable letters illuminate the long and often bitter struggle to explain the paradox of measurement at the heart of quantum physics. In recent years, Everett's solution to this mysterious problem - the existence of a universe of universes - has gained considerable traction in scientific circles, not as science fiction, but as an explanation of physical reality.

Author : Dean Birkenkamp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Composers
ISBN : 1003299741

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The Many Worlds of David Amram by Dean Birkenkamp Pdf

"In a career spanning 75 years, composer David Amram has created a rich array of works across symphony, chamber music, opera, jazz, and stage and film scores, and collaborated with many leading musicians, playwrights, artists, actors, and writers, including Jack Kerouac, Woody Guthrie, Dizzy Gillespie, Arthur Miller, Paul Newman, Willie Nelson, Steve Earle, Patti Smith, and hundreds more. An innovator who blended jazz and global folk styles with classical traditions, Amram's career also emphasizes the creative potential of collaboration. This book offers a wide-ranging exploration of Amram's work and influence, situating the composer in the context of today's international culture. It shows how Amram's proficiencies in spontaneous, on-stage music creation enriches his formal classical composing. The book includes multi-media links for readers. Bringing together perspectives from conductors, musicians, performers, scholars and journalists, this is the essential guide to a major figure in contemporary music"--

Author : John Wagstaff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1061 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780429802614

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The British Union Catalogue of Music Periodicals by John Wagstaff Pdf

First published in 1998, the aim of this catalogue is to help students, researchers and librarians determine the UK locations of over 2,000 music periodical titles held in public, academic and national libraries. Over 220 libraries in the UK have been surveyed, from St. Austell to Aberdeen, Aberystwyth to Brighton. Each catalogue entry provides detailed information on library holdings, and full bibliographic details of periodical titles, including ISSNs. The main catalogue is preceded by an address list, and by a preface outlining the history of music periodicals in Britain, together with statistical tables.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Comedians
ISBN : IND:30000021402486

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The Many Worlds of Carol Burnett by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jeff Todd Titon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 002872612X

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Worlds of Music by Jeff Todd Titon Pdf

Author : Suzel Ana Reily,Jonathan M. Dueck
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199860005

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The Oxford Handbook of Music and World Christianities by Suzel Ana Reily,Jonathan M. Dueck Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Music and World Christianities investigates music's role in everyday practice and social history across the diversity of Christian religions and practices around the globe. The volume explores Christian communities in the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia as sites of transmission, transformation, and creation of deeply diverse musical traditions. The book's contributors, while mostly rooted in ethnomusicology, examine Christianities and their musics in methodologically diverse ways, engaging with musical sound and structure, musical and social history, and ethnography of music and musical performance. These broad materials explore five themes: music and missions, music and religious utopias (and other oppositional religious communities), music and conflict, music and transnational flows, and music and everyday life. The volume as a whole, then, approaches Christian groups and their musics as diverse and powerful windows into the way in which music, religious ideas, capital, and power circulate (and change) between places, now and historically. It also tries to take account of the religious self-understandings of these groups, presenting Christian musical practice and exchange as encompassing and negotiating deeply felt and deeply rooted moral and cultural values. Given that the centerpiece of the volume is Christian religious musical practice, the volume reveals the active role music plays in maintaining and changing religious, moral, and cultural values in a long history of intercultural and transnational encounters.