Thousand Mile Song

Author : David Rothenberg
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781458759245

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Thousand-Mile Song by David Rothenberg Pdf

In Thousand Mile Song, musician and philosopher David Rothenberg uses the enigma of whale sounds to explore whether we can truly understand nonhuman minds. Interviewing scholars around the world as they attempt to decipher underwater music, Rothenberg tells the story of scientists and artists confronting an unknown as vast as the ocean. Along the way, he plays his clarinet live with whales in their native habitats, from Russia to Hawaii, making interspecies music that appears on the included CD. Richly detailed and deeply entertaining, Thousand Mile Song is an imaginative look at the most intriguing creatures of the ocean.

Author : Lang Lang,David Ritz
Publisher : Random House
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008-07-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780385526913

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Journey of a Thousand Miles by Lang Lang,David Ritz Pdf

“Number One” was a phrase my father—and, for that matter, my mother—repeated time and time again. It was a phrase spoken by my parents’ friends and by their friends’ children. Whenever adults discussed the great Chinese painters and sculptors from the ancient dynasties, there was always a single artist named as Number One. There was the Number One leader of a manufacturing plant, the Number One worker, the Number One scientist, the Number One car mechanic. In the culture of my childhood, being best was everything. It was the goal that drove us, the motivation that gave life meaning. And if, by chance or fate or the blessings of the generous universe, you were a child in whom talent was evident, Number One became your mantra. It became mine. I never begged my parents to take off the pressure. I accepted it; I even enjoyed it. It was a game, this contest among aspiring pianists, and although I may have been shy, I was bold, even at age five, when faced with a field of rivals. Born in China to parents whose musical careers were interrupted by the Cultural Revolution, Lang Lang has emerged as one of the greatest pianists of our time. Yet despite his fame, few in the West know of the heart-wrenching journey from his early childhood as a prodigy in an industrial city in northern China to his difficult years in Beijing to his success today. Journey of a Thousand Miles documents the remarkable, dramatic story of a family who sacrificed almost everything—his parents’ marriage, financial security, Lang Lang’s childhood, and their reputation in China’s insular classical music world—for the belief in a young boy’s talent. And it reveals the devastating and intense relationship between a boy and his father, who was willing to go to any length to make his son a star. An engaging, informative cultural commentator who bridges East and West, Lang Lang has written more than an autobiography: his book opens a door to China, where Lang Lang is a cultural icon, at a time when the world’s attention will be on Beijing. Written with David Ritz, the coauthor of many bestselling autobiographies, Journey of a Thousand Miles is an inspiring story that will give readers an appreciation for the courage and sacrifice it takes to achieve greatness.

Author : Don McLeese
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780292723818

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Dwight Yoakam by Don McLeese Pdf

Chronicles the musical life of the country star who has made a career of blending disparate influences, drawing on interviews to explore his authenticity and success as an artist.

Author : Eunsun Kim,Sébastien Falletti
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781466870888

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A Thousand Miles to Freedom by Eunsun Kim,Sébastien Falletti Pdf

Eunsun Kim was born in North Korea, one of the most secretive and oppressive countries in the modern world. As a child Eunsun loved her country...despite her school field trips to public executions, daily self-criticism sessions, and the increasing gnaw of hunger as the country-wide famine escalated. By the time she was eleven years old, Eunsun's father and grandparents had died of starvation, and Eunsun was in danger of the same. Finally, her mother decided to escape North Korea with Eunsun and her sister, not knowing that they were embarking on a journey that would take them nine long years to complete. Before finally reaching South Korea and freedom, Eunsun and her family would live homeless, fall into the hands of Chinese human traffickers, survive a North Korean labor camp, and cross the deserts of Mongolia on foot. Now, Eunsun is sharing her remarkable story to give voice to the tens of millions of North Koreans still suffering in silence. Told with grace and courage, her memoir is a riveting exposé of North Korea's totalitarian regime and, ultimately, a testament to the strength and resilience of the human spirit.

Author : William H. A. Williams
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781456794958

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Tho' It Were Ten Thousand Miles by William H. A. Williams Pdf

Seamus ORoukes obsession with a girl he discovers on You Tube turns into love when Fiona MacKenzie turns up on his Midwestern campus. While the sixty-?ve-year-old Irishmans pursuit of this twenty-year-old folk singer is against all reason, rhyme does play its role. Seamus is adept at wielding poetry, as well as music, art, gourmet meals and ? ne wine, in his campaign for the heart of his green-eyed auburn-haired beauty. Fiona is haunted by the earlier death of her Scottish father and by the resulting loneliness, which she tries to hide beneath her usually self-con?dent exterior. She tries to keep from being overwhelmed by Seamus larger-than-life personality. Gradually, however, her skeptical common sense gives way before the onslaught of this unreconstructed Irish Romantic. During their brief months together, this age-crossed pair discovers that romance is a tightrope strung between incomprehension and farce. As told through a his/her dual narrative, these two head-strong and highly articulate individuals continuously collide, often comically, as they struggle to comprehend the nature of their love. In spite of moments of often bawdy comedy, questions of love, age, loss and death thread their way through the story. As Fiona observes, What strange ways love has of going about her business.

Author : David Rothenberg
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781250018267

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Bug Music by David Rothenberg Pdf

In the spring of 2013 the cicadas in the Northeastern United States will yet again emerge from their seventeen-year cycle—the longest gestation period of any animal. Those who experience this great sonic invasion compare their sense of wonder to the arrival of a comet or a solar eclipse. This unending rhythmic cycle is just one unique example of how the pulse and noise of insects has taught humans the meaning of rhythm, from the whirr of a cricket's wings to this unfathomable and exact seventeen-year beat. In listening to cicadas, as well as other humming, clicking, and thrumming insects, Bug Music is the first book to consider the radical notion that we humans got our idea of rhythm, synchronization, and dance from the world of insect sounds that surrounded our species over the millions of years over which we evolved. Completing the trilogy he began with Why Birds Sing and Thousand Mile Song, David Rothenberg explores a unique part of our relationship with nature and sound—the music of insects that has provided a soundtrack for humanity throughout the history of our species. Bug Music continues Rothenberg's in-depth research and spirited writing on the relationship between human and animal music, and it follows him as he explores insect influences in classical and modern music, plays his saxophone with crickets and other insects, and confers with researchers and scientists nationwide. This engaging and thought-provoking book challenges our understanding of our place in nature and our relationship to the creatures surrounding us, and makes a passionate case for the interconnectedness of species.

Author : John Muir
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 1049 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-09
Category : Travel
ISBN : EAN:8596547805519

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John Muir's Incredible Travel Memoirs: A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, My First Summer in the Sierra, The Mountains of California, Travels in Alaska, Steep Trails... (Illustrated) by John Muir Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "John Muir's Incredible Travel Memoirs: A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, My First Summer in the Sierra, The Mountains of California, Travels in Alaska, Steep Trails... (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. During his numerous travels across the North America John Muir left behind a several travel books and travel reports. In September 1867, Muir undertook a walk of about 1,000 miles from Indiana to Florida, which he recounted in his book A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf. He had no specific route chosen, except to go by the "wildest, leafiest, and least trodden way I could find. Upon coming to California Muir immediately left for a visit to Yosemite, a place he had only read about. His hiking journeys through the mountains, valleys,forests andglaciersof Sierra are vividly described in books My First Summer in the Sierra and The Mountains of California. Muir also made four trips to Alaska and he documented these experiences in books Travels in Alaska and The Cruise of the Corwin. Steep Trails is collection of Muir's papers written during his journeysover a period of twenty-nine years collected by William Frederic Badè. Table of Contents: A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf My First Summer in the Sierra The Mountains of California Travels in Alaska The Cruise of the Corwin Steep Trails John Muir (1838-1914) was a Scottish-American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States. His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, especially in the Sierra Nevada mountainsof California, have been read by millions. His activism helped to preserve the Yosemite Valley, Sequoia National Park and other wilderness areas. The Sierra Club, which he founded, is a prominent American conservation organization.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:613031489

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Thousand Mile Song by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Pichaske
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781441197665

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Song of the North Country by David Pichaske Pdf

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Author : Stan Hugill
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781493068289

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Shanties from the Seven Seas by Stan Hugill Pdf

This book contains not only more than 400 sea shanties but as much of their history as Stan Hugill could collect in his extraordinary career as sailor, scholar, author, artist, and inspiration to new generations of sea-music enthusiasts and performers.

Author : George Lewis,Benjamin Piekut
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780195370935

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The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies by George Lewis,Benjamin Piekut Pdf

V. 1. Cognitions -- v. 2. Critical theories

Author : George E. Lewis,Benjamin Piekut
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190627966

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The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies, Volume 1 by George E. Lewis,Benjamin Piekut Pdf

Improvisation informs a vast array of human activity, from creative practices in art, dance, music, and literature to everyday conversation and the relationships to natural and built environments that surround and sustain us. The two volumes of the Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies gather scholarship on improvisation from an immense range of perspectives, with contributions from more than sixty scholars working in architecture, anthropology, art history, computer science, cognitive science, cultural studies, dance, economics, education, ethnomusicology, film, gender studies, history, linguistics, literary theory, musicology, neuroscience, new media, organizational science, performance studies, philosophy, popular music studies, psychology, science and technology studies, sociology, and sound art, among others.

Author : John Muir
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : NYPL:33433007797966

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A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf by John Muir Pdf

/MUIR JOHN Originally published in 1916, this book is largely comprised of lightly edited diary entries Muir made during his memorable 1867 trek from Kentucky to Florida. Mixing deft observations of the human condition with lyrical responses to the beauties of the natural world, Muir creates his own stirring "song of the Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 934 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Bicycle touring
ISBN : UOM:39015012368679

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Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle by Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg Pdf

Author : John Muir
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9788027304462

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A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf (Illustrated Edition) by John Muir Pdf

"JOHN MUIR, Earth-planet, Universe."—These words are written on the inside cover of the notebook from which the contents of this volume have been taken. They reflect the mood in which the late author and explorer undertook his thousand-mile walk to the Gulf of Mexico. No less does this refreshingly cosmopolitan address, which might have startled any finder of the book, reveal the temper and the comprehensiveness of Mr. Muir's mind. He never was and never could be a parochial student of nature. In September 1867, Muir undertook a walk of about 1,000 miles (1,600 km) from Kentucky to Florida, which he recounted in his book A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf. He had no specific route chosen, except to go by the "wildest, leafiest, and least trodden way I could find."