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Weavers of Song

Author : Mervyn McLean
Publisher : Auckland University Press
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Music
ISBN : 186940212X

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This work is a study of Polynesian music illustrated by music examples and photographs.

The Weaver's Songs

Author : Kabir
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Hindi poetry
ISBN : 0143029681

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Life and works of a Hindu saint poet.

The Penguin Book of Canadian Folk Songs

Author : Keith Campbell MacMillan
Publisher : Markham, Ont. : Penguin Books Canada
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Music
ISBN : IND:39000013341685

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82 folkesange.

The Song of the Loom

Author : Vijaya Ramaswamy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Folk art
ISBN : 9380607466

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The Song of the Loom

Wasn't That a Time

Author : Jesse Jarnow
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780306902055

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The dramatic untold story of the Weavers, the hit-making folk-pop quartet destroyed with the aid of the United States government--and who changed the world, anyway Following a series of top 10 hits that became instant American standards, the Weavers dissolved at the height of their fame. Wasn't That a Time: The Weavers, the Blacklist, and the Battle for the Soul of America details the remarkable rise of Pete Seeger's unlikely band of folk heroes, from basement hootenannies to the top of the charts, before a coordinated harassment campaign at the hands of Congress's House Un-American Activities Committee and the emergent right-wing media saw them unable to find work and dropped by their label while their songs still hovered on Billboard's lists. Turning the black-and-white 1950s into vivid color, Wasn't That a Time uses the Weavers to illuminate a dark and complex period of American history. Emerging while a highly divided populace was bombarded and further divided by fake news--and progressive organizations and individuals found themselves repressed under the pretenses of national security--the Weavers would rise, fall, and rise again. With origins in the radical folk collective the Almanac Singers and the ambitious People's Songs, both pioneering the use of music as a transformative political organizing tool, the singing activists in the Weavers set out to change the world with songs as their weapons. Using previously unseen journals and letters, unreleased recordings, once-secret government documents, and other archival research, veteran music journalist and WFMU DJ Jesse Jarnow uncovers the immense hopes, incredible pressures, and daily struggles of the four distinct and often unharmonious personalities at the heart of the Weavers. With a class and race-conscious global vision of music that now make them seem like time travelers from the 21st century, the Weavers would transform material from American blues singer Lead Belly ("Goodnight Irene"), the Bahamas ("Wreck of the John B"), and South Africa ("Wimoweh") into songs that remain ubiquitous from rock clubs to Broadway shows. Featuring quotes about the Weavers' influence from David Crosby, the Beach Boys' Al Jardine, and the Byrds' Roger McGuinn, Wasn't That a Time explores how the group's innocent-sounding harmonies might be heard as a threat worthy of decades of investigation by the FBI--and how the band's late '50s reformation engendered a new generation of musicians to take up the Weavers' non-violent weaponry: eclectic songs, joyous harmonies, and the power of music.

I Am Redeemed

Author : Mike Weaver,Jim Scherer
Publisher : Worthy Books
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781546014997

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Mike Weaver, lead singer of Big Daddy Weave, shares from personal experience how when all we can see is our struggles and failures, God reminds us of who we are. . . . His children. Loved. Set free. Redeemed. I Am Redeemed is an open book of Mike Weaver's life, bringing into the light everything from his battle with self-hatred to the near death of his brother and bandmate, who ultimately had both feet amputated to save his life. Mike shares the lessons learned in the loss of his father and dealing with the spirit of suicide within his band, Big Daddy Weave. At the lowest of lows, with Mike feeling rejected and alone, God broke through to speak truth and life into him. Thankful for God's plan and timing and methods, he is especially grateful for the new identity Jesus had paid for on the cross. In spite of his faults and failures, Mike learned that only God can take the stuff you hate about yourself and use it to reach people. Through the million-selling song "Redeemed" and now the powerful story behind it, as well as inspiration from Scripture, you will be encouraged to embrace God's redeeming grace so you, too, have the opportunity to be beautiful offerings to the Lord.

The Complete Birds of the World

Author : Norman Arlott,Ber van Perlo
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780691193922

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The Complete Birds of the World by Norman Arlott,Ber van Perlo Pdf

"This is a book like no other--the only truly comprehensive, one-volume illustrated guide to all of the world's birds, covering the complete International Ornithological Congress World Bird List. Featuring more than 300 stunning large-format, full-color plates, this accessible and authoritative encyclopedic reference presents incredibly detailed, accurate, and beautiful paintings of more than 10,700 species by some of the world's best bird artists, led by the legendary Norman Arlott and Ber van Perlo. In addition, The Complete Birds of the World provides detailed but concise identification information about each species on facing pages--including facts about voice, habitat, and geographic distribution. The result is a visual and verbal feast that captures the astonishing variety of bird life around the planet--and that will be cherished by any birder." -- Amazon.

Choral Constructions in Greek Culture

Author : Deborah Tarn Steiner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 785 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107110687

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Demonstrates the centrality of chorality in the social, religious and technological practices of individuals and communities.

Songs from the Weavers of Our Lives

Author : Duane Niatum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : OCLC:48815062

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A Weaver-Poet and the Plague

Author : Scott Oldenburg
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271088716

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William Muggins, an impoverished but highly literate weaver-poet, lived and wrote in London at the turn of the seventeenth century, when few of his contemporaries could even read. A Weaver-Poet and the Plague’s microhistorical approach uses Muggins’s life and writing, in which he articulates a radical vision of a commonwealth founded on labor and mutual aid, as a gateway into a broader narrative about London’s “middling sort” during the plague of 1603. In debt, in prison, and at odds with his livery company, Muggins was forced to move his family from the central London neighborhood called the Poultry to the far poorer and more densely populated parish of St. Olave’s in Southwark. It was here, confined to his home as that parish was devastated by the plague, that Muggins wrote his minor epic, London’s Mourning Garment, in 1603. The poem laments the loss of life and the suffering brought on by the plague but also reflects on the social and economic woes of the city, from the pains of motherhood and childrearing to anxieties about poverty, insurmountable debt, and a system that had failed London’s most vulnerable. Part literary criticism, part microhistory, this book reconstructs Muggins’s household, his reading, his professional and social networks, and his proximity to a culture of radical religion in Southwark. Featuring an appendix with a complete version of London’s Mourning Garment, this volume presents a street-level view of seventeenth-century London that gives agency and voice to a class that is often portrayed as passive and voiceless.

The Book of Scottish Song

Author : Alexander Whitelaw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Poets, Scottish
ISBN : HARVARD:32044089060396

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Chasing the Rising Sun

Author : Ted Anthony
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 1416539301

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Chasing the Rising Sun is the story of an American musical journey told by a prize-winning writer who traced one song in its many incarnations as it was carried across the world by some of the most famous singers of the twentieth century. Most people know the song "House of the Rising Sun" as 1960s rock by the British Invasion group the Animals, a ballad about a place in New Orleans -- a whorehouse or a prison or gambling joint that's been the ruin of many poor girls or boys. Bob Dylan did a version and Frijid Pink cut a hard-rocking rendition. But that barely scratches the surface; few songs have traveled a journey as intricate as "House of the Rising Sun." The rise of the song in this country and the launch of its world travels can be traced to Georgia Turner, a poor, sixteen-year-old daughter of a miner living in Middlesboro, Kentucky, in 1937 when the young folk-music collector Alan Lomax, on a trip collecting field recordings, captured her voice singing "The Rising Sun Blues." Lomax deposited the song in the Library of Congress and included it in the 1941 book Our Singing Country. In short order, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Lead Belly, and Josh White learned the song and each recorded it. From there it began to move to the planet's farthest corners. Today, hundreds of artists have recorded "House of the Rising Sun," and it can be heard in the most diverse of places -- Chinese karaoke bars, Gatorade ads, and as a ring tone on cell phones. Anthony began his search in New Orleans, where he met Eric Burdon of the Animals. He traveled to the Appalachians -- to eastern Kentucky, eastern Tennessee, and western North Carolina -- to scour the mountains for the song's beginnings. He found Homer Callahan, who learned it in the mountains during a corn shucking; he discovered connections to Clarence "Tom" Ashley, who traveled as a performer in a 1920s medicine show. He went to Daisy, Kentucky, to visit the family of the late high-lonesome singer Roscoe Holcomb, and finally back to Bourbon Street to see if there really was a House of the Rising Sun. He interviewed scores of singers who performed the song. Through his own journey he discovered how American traditions survived and prospered -- and how a piece of culture moves through the modern world, propelled by technology and globalization and recorded sound.

Songs from the Loom

Author : Monty Roessel
Publisher : Lerner Publications ™
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781728459899

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Jaclyn Roessel live in Kayenta, Arizona, on the Navajo reservation. Like most young girls, Jaclyn has many interests. She likes her math class, she plays basketball and volleyball, and she loves in-line skating. She is also interested in rug weaving, and she has asked her grandmother to teach her how to weave. For the Navajos, weaving is more than a craft or hobby. It is an important part of the culture and history of the Dine--the people. Jaclyn's grandmother has explained that she wants Jaclyn to learn not just the technique of weaving but the stories and songs that go along with it. These stories about Spider Woman and Changing Woman have been passed down from generation to generation. In Songs from the Loom, photographer and writer Monty Roessel accompanies Jaclyn and her grandmother as they shear sheep, gather plants to dye wool, and weave a rug. Navajo rugs are highly valued and hang in museums around the world. This book looks at what the beautiful rugs mean to the Navajos.

Travelin' on with the Weavers

Author : Weavers (Musical group)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Folk music
ISBN : UOM:39015070675437

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Sheet music and lyrics from The Weavers repertoire for folk songs from many different countries and many different regions and time periods in the United States.

Song and Democratic Culture in Britain

Author : Ian Watson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317357735

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Originally published in 1983. Song has always been a natural way to record everyday experiences – an expression of celebration, commiseration, complaint and protest. This innovative book is a study of popular and working-class song combining several approaches to the subject. It is a history of working-class song in Britain which concentrates not simply on the songs and the singers but attempts to locate such song in its cultural context and apply principles of literary criticism to this essentially oral medium. It triggered controversy: some critics castigated its Marxist approach, others enthused that ‘such unabashed partisanship amply reveals the outstanding characteristic of Watson's book’. The author discusses the way in which the popular song, from Victorian times onwards, has been forced by the entertainment industry out of its roots in popular culture, to become a blander form of art with minimal critical potential. The book ends by considering the possibilities for a continued flourishing of a genuine popular song culture in an electronic age. It has become a standard title in bibliographies and curricula. Much has changed since 1983, not least in music; but this then innovative book still has a lot to say about popular song in its social and historical context.