World Flutelore

Author : Dale A. Olsen
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780252095146

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World Flutelore by Dale A. Olsen Pdf

In many places around the world, flutes and the sounds of flutes are powerful magical forces for seduction and love, protection, vegetal and human fertility, birth and death, and other aspects of human and non-human behavior. This book explores the cultural significance of flutes, flute playing, and flute players from around the world as interpreted from folktales, myths, and other stories--in a word, "flutelore." A scholarly yet readable study, World Flutelore: Folktales, Myths, and Other Stories of Magical Flute Power draws upon a range of sources in folklore, anthropology, ethnomusicology, and literary analysis. Describing and interpreting many examples of flutes as they are found in mythology, poetry, lyrics, and other narrative and literary sources from around the world, veteran ethnomusicologist Dale Olsen seeks to determine what is singularly distinct or unique about flutes, flute playing, and flute players in a global context. He shows how and why world flutes are important for personal, communal, religious, spiritual, and secular expression and even, perhaps, existence. This is a book for students, scholars, and any reader interested in the cultural power of flutes.

Author : Stuart Walker
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-01
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780262048095

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Design for Resilience by Stuart Walker Pdf

A beautifully written and illustrated framework for resilient design that is as pragmatic as it is inspiring, showing us not only how but why we should design differently. Design for Resilience is a timely, visionary map for creating restorative design that addresses humanity’s most critical issue: climate change. Our current wealth-oriented economic systems have resulted in gross disparities, war, refugee crises, and mass migrations that augur a bleak collective future. In this book, respected scholar Stuart Walker combines formidable research with practical examples to offer a hopeful, original, and transformative view of what resilient design looks like and how it can apply to all aspects of life, from personal objects to food to culture to business to recreation. Working at the intersection of theory, philosophy, history, environmentalism, and justice, Walker offers a fresh approach that decolonizes design thinking to fundamentally change the nature of design practice and how it shapes our lives, communities, and industries. Asking nothing short of the fundamental question “How should we live?,” Design for Resilience addresses the high-priority issues that concern governments, policymakers, designers, and people around the world who recognize that now, perhaps more than at any other time in human history, we need paradigmatic changes to create a future that lasts.

Author : Anne E. Duggan Ph.D.,Donald Haase Ph.D.,Helen J. Callow
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1751 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781610692540

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Folktales and Fairy Tales [4 volumes] by Anne E. Duggan Ph.D.,Donald Haase Ph.D.,Helen J. Callow Pdf

Encyclopedic in its coverage, this one-of-a-kind reference is ideal for students, scholars, and others who need reliable, up-to-date information on folk and fairy tales, past and present. Folktales and fairy tales have long played an important role in cultures around the world. They pass customs and lore from generation to generation, provide insights into the peoples who created them, and offer inspiration to creative artists working in media that now include television, film, manga, photography, and computer games. This second, expanded edition of an award-winning reference will help students and teachers as well as storytellers, writers, and creative artists delve into this enchanting world and keep pace with its past and its many new facets. Alphabetically organized and global in scope, the work is the only multivolume reference in English to offer encyclopedic coverage of this subject matter. The four-volume collection covers national, cultural, regional, and linguistic traditions from around the world as well as motifs, themes, characters, and tale types. Writers and illustrators are included as are filmmakers and composers—and, of course, the tales themselves. The expert entries within volumes 1 through 3 are based on the latest research and developments while the contents of volume 4 comprises tales and texts. While most books either present readers with tales from certain countries or cultures or with thematic entries, this encyclopedia stands alone in that it does both, making it a truly unique, one-stop resource.

Author : Juwen Zhang
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781793645142

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Oral Traditions in Contemporary China by Juwen Zhang Pdf

In Oral Traditions in Contemporary China: Healing a Nation, Juwen Zhang provides a systematic survey of such oral traditions as folk and fairy tales, proverbs, ballads, and folksongs that are vibrantly practiced today. Zhang establishes a theoretical framework for understanding how Chinese culture has continued for thousands of years with vitality and validity, core and arbitrary identity markers, and folkloric identity. This framework, which describes a cultural self-healing mechanism, is equally applicable to the exploration of other traditions and cultures in the world. Through topics from Chinese Cinderella to the Grimms of China, from proverbs like “older ginger is spicier” to the life-views held by the Chinese, and from mountain songs and ballads to the musical instruments like the clay-vessel-flute, the author weaves these oral traditions across time and space into a mesmerizing intellectual journey. Focusing on contemporary practice, this book serves as a bridge between Chinese and international folklore scholarship and other related disciplines as well. Those interested in Chinese culture in general and Chinese folklore, literature, and oral tradition in particular will certainly delight in perusing this book.

Author : David Walter Leinweber
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781793625205

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The Art of Ancient Music by David Walter Leinweber Pdf

From the very beginning, music has helped us create our world – everything from language, to technology, to philosophy and religion. The Art of Ancient Music discusses the important role music has played in shaping human development. While emphasizing shared human themes, the text has a special focus on the rise of Western music in the ancient Near East, the Bible, and the Classical worlds. A final chapter provides a discussion of the way music helped bridge the gap between the ancient world and the Middle Ages, especially in the guise of Church music.

Author : Illinois. Office of Secretary of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Government publications
ISBN : OSU:32435087583357

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Publications of the State of Illinois by Illinois. Office of Secretary of State Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UIUC:30112076601555

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Publications of the State of Illinois by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dennis Slifer
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 1423601742

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Kokopelli by Dennis Slifer Pdf

Kokopelli The Magic, Mirth, and Mischief of an Ancient Symbol Dennis Slifer foreword by R. Carlos Nakai Kokopelli, ancient humpbacked flute player, is the Southwest's most popular icon. Presented here are more than 300 flute player images, including a great many that have never been published. Along with new information about the meaning and origin of Kokopelli, some of it challenges our current understanding of this unmistakable character. Explore the range of the flute player and see how it extends south into Mexico, north into Canada, west into Nevada, and east into the plains of Colorado, Texas, and Oklahoma. Included are examples of flute players in the rock art of other cultures around the world, providing cultural comparisons of this archetypal motif. A discussion of flute lore underscores the special role of the instrument among many indigenous peoples and its near-universal association with courtship, love, and seduction.

Author : Elizabeth McKillen
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780252095139

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Making the World Safe for Workers by Elizabeth McKillen Pdf

In this intellectually ambitious study, Elizabeth McKillen explores the significance of Wilsonian internationalism for workers and the influence of American labor in both shaping and undermining the foreign policies and war mobilization efforts of Woodrow Wilson's administration. McKillen highlights the major fault lines and conflicts that emerged within labor circles as Wilson pursued his agenda in the context of Mexican and European revolutions, World War I, and the Versailles Peace Conference. As McKillen shows, the choice to collaborate with or resist U.S. foreign policy remained an important one for labor throughout the twentieth century. In fact, it continues to resonate today in debates over the global economy, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the impact of U.S. policies on workers at home and abroad.

Author : Lotus Linton Howard
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781506387475

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Bright Ribbons: Weaving Culturally Responsive Teaching Into the Elementary Classroom by Lotus Linton Howard Pdf

Weave culturally responsive teaching into every lesson and activity Culturally responsive teaching practices are like bright ribbons: when you weave them into everything you teach, you create a beautiful tapestry for successful learning. Lotus Howard, who has spent four decades teaching in diverse classrooms, will show you how to build relationships with your students and create a harmonious community where every child can thrive. You’ll learn: How to use culturally responsive teaching (CRT) not as an add-on, but as a philosophy that infuses every aspect of the school day Simple strategies for weaving the seven principles of CRT into all lessons and activities, including morning greetings, transition times, and group work How to be more self-reflective to better appreciate and unlock students’ unique gifts With an array of practical tips, model lessons, and resources, this book will inspire you to weave a holistic tapestry of teaching and learning that benefits all children.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Flute
ISBN : WISC:89003747805

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The Flutist by Anonim Pdf

Author : Nancy Toff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-13
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780195373080

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The Flute Book by Nancy Toff Pdf

The instrument -- Performance -- The music -- Repertoire catalog -- Fingering chart for the Boehm flute -- Flute manufacturers -- Repair shops -- Sources for instruments and accessories -- Sources for music and books -- Journals, societies, and service organizations -- Flute clubs and societies.

Author : Dale Olsen
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1986909239

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From the Sound Up by Dale Olsen Pdf

A portion of this book is a narrative about the World Music Ensemble Program at the Florida State University from 1973 to 2008, the time period of my employment at FSU. While admittedly this narrative history is somewhat of a memoir, my major goal with this book is to provide philosophical bases and even practical instructional strategies for creating world music ensembles in public places where such participatory musical groups can be educational and constructive vehicles for creating cross-cultural communication, good will, understanding, community well-being, healing, and, perhaps, world peace. Not limited to institutions of higher learning, the instructional strategies presented in this book can apply to other public places, such as public and private primary and secondary schools, after-school programs, churches, community or junior colleges, community recreation and learning centers, autism and mental health centers, detention centers, public libraries, retirement homes and rehabilitation facilities, and other organizations interested in learning about diversity through musical participation in world music ensembles. Why are world music ensembles important? What are their roles in education and elsewhere? Who teaches them? Who funds them? Who performs in them? How can they be developed, supported, and assured of success? This book, From the Sound Up: Building World Music Ensembles in Public Places, seeks to answer these and other questions. What I call the "world music ensemble concept" is built on the premise that we all have the capability to play musics from cultures other than that (or those) we have been born into. To seriously learn to play musics from different cultures by participating in world music ensembles, regardless of how accomplished one becomes as a performer, will help to create cross-cultural understanding. At every moment of the day, as our world becomes more and more complex, cross-cultural understanding becomes more vital to our very existence. The world's survival, in fact, depends on such cross-cultural awareness, sensitivity, and acceptance.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1434 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433019395155

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World-radio; the BBC Foreign Programme Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Brass instruments
ISBN : UOM:39015025424105

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Woodwind/brass & Percussion by Anonim Pdf