Download or read book Dance for the Aina written by Clemence McLaren and published by Bess Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When twelve-year-old Kate, who is half-white, moves to Hawaii with her brother and father, she becomes a victim of racial prejudice but also learns the meaning of her middle name.
Download or read book Dance for the ina written by Clemence McLaren and published by Bess PressInc. This book was released on 1999 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When twelve-year-old Kate, who is half-white, moves to Hawaii with her brother and father, she becomes a victim of racial prejudice but also learns the meaning of her middle name.
Download or read book The Haumana Hula Handbook for Students of Hawaiian Dance written by Mahealani Uchiyama and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great resource for students of traditional Hawaiian dance, this beautiful handbook filled with archival photographs covers the origins, language, etiquette, ceremonies, and the spiritual culture of hula. Hula, the indigenous dance of Hawai'i, preserves significant aspects of Native Hawaiian culture with strong ties to health and spirituality. Kumu Hula, persons who are culturally recognized hula experts and educators, maintain and share this cultural tradition, conveying Hawaiian history and spiritual beliefs in this unique form of cultural and creative expression, comprising specific controlled rhythmic movements that enhance the meaning and poetry of the accompanying songs. Emphasizing the importance of cultural literacy, the Handbook begins with an overview of the origins of hula, its history in Hawai'i, and the primacy of the spiritual focus of the dance. The book goes on to introduce halau etiquette and practices, and explains the format of a traditional hula presentation, together with the genres of hula and the regalia worn by the dancers. Practical components include sections on Hawaiian language and chant and a glossary of hula commands and footwork. Author Mahealani Uchiyama trained in Hawaii in the hula lineage of Joseph Kamoha'i Kaha'ulelio and is currently the Kumu Hula at the Halau Ku Ua Tuahine in Berkeley, California. As the founder and artistic director of the Center for International Dance and board member of Dance Arts West, the producers of San Francisco's annual Ethnic Dance Festival, Uchiyama's approach to hula is deeply holistic and reflects her background in indigenous wisdom traditions and cultural exchange and interaction.
Download or read book Shanghai s Dancing World written by Andrew Field and published by Chinese University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It was thanks to its cabarets that Old Shanghai was called the `Paris of the Orient.' No one has studied the rise and fall of those cabarets more extensively than Andrew Field. His book is packed with fascinating information and attests on every page to his understanding of Shanghai's history." LYNN PAN, author of Sons of the Yellow Emperor --
Download or read book Return to Kahiki written by Kealani Cook and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important new analysis of Native Hawaiian efforts to construct relationships with other Oceanic peoples as missionaries, diplomats, and tourists.
Download or read book Shanghai s Dancing World written by Andrew David and published by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. This book was released on 2010-11-03 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon a unique and untapped reservoir of newspapers, magazines, novels, government documents, photographs and illustrations, this book traces the origin, pinnacle, and ultimate demise of a commercial dance industry in Shanghai between the end of the First World War and the early years of the People's Republic of China. Delving deep into the world of cabarets, nightclubs, and elite ballrooms that arose in the city in the 1920s and peaked in the 1930s, the book assesses how and why Chinese society incorporated and transformed this westernized world of leisure and entertainment to suit its own tastes and interests. Focusing on the jazzage nightlife of the city in its "golden age," the book examines issues of colonialism and modernity, urban space, sociability and sexuality, and modern Chinese national identity formation in a tumultuous era of war and revolution.
Download or read book Peddler in Another World I Can Go Back to My World Whenever I Want Volume 5 written by Hiiro Shimotsuki and published by J-Novel Club. This book was released on 2023-11-06 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After rescuing Aina from the clutches of her kidnappers and successfully reuniting Suama with her dragon mom, Shiro is more than ready for things to calm down a bit and for his life in the other world to finally return to some semblance of normality. Unfortunately for him, it isn’t long before trouble crosses the threshold of his store again in the form of a total bombshell who claims to be the dragon Shiro had last spoken to only days before. She isn’t the only unexpected visitor though, as Aina’s abductor and Suama’s former pursuer, Celes, also turns up on his doorstep, having decided she would become Shiro’s slave to repay him for all he had done for her. And the worst part? Both women absolutely despise one another. In the midst of the ensuing chaos, Shiro receives a strange letter from a good friend of his, urging him to drop everything and come to the royal capital. Worried that his friend might be in trouble, Shiro sets off for the distant city. But what awaits him there?
Download or read book An Essay towards the History of Dancing etc written by John WEAVER (Dancing Master.) and published by . This book was released on 1712 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Natives are Restless written by Constance Hale and published by Sparkpress. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book of its kind to dig into the rich ethnic dance tradition of Hawaiian hula, The Natives Are Restless is a high-touch volume with stunning photography, archival material, and illustrations that will make hula come alive for any reader.
Download or read book Ethics and Nostalgia in the Contemporary Novel written by John J. Su and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-11-24 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Images of loss and yearning played a crucial role in literary texts written in the later part of the twentieth century. Despite deep cultural differences, novelists from Africa, the Caribbean, Great Britain, and the United States share a sense that the economic, social, and political forces associated with late modernity have evoked widespread nostalgia within the communities in which they write. In this original and wide-ranging study, John J. Su explores the relationship between nostalgia and ethics in novels across the English-speaking world. He challenges the tendency in literary studies to characterise memory as positive and nostalgia as necessarily negative. Instead, this book argues that nostalgic fantasies are crucial to the ethical visions presented by topical novels. From Jean Rhys to Wole Soyinka and from V. S. Naipaul to Toni Morrison, Su identifies nostalgia as a central concern in the twentieth-century novel.
Download or read book Researching Dance written by Sondra Horton Fraleigh and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 1998-03-15 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Researching Dance, an introduction to research methods in dance addressed primarily to graduate students, the editors explore dance as evolutional, defining it in view of its intrinsic participatory values, its developmental aspects, and its purposes from art to ritual, and they examine the role of theory in research. The editors have also included essays by nine dancer-scholars who examine qualitative and quantitative inquiry and delineate the most common approaches for investigating dance, raising concerns about philosophy and aesthetics, historical scholarship, movement analysis, sexual and gender identification, cultural diversity, and the resources available to students. The writers have included study questions, research exercises, and suggested readings to facilitate the book's use as a classroom text.
Download or read book Dancing Times written by and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ajaiyi and His Inherited Poverty written by Amos Tutuola and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of Ajaiyi, a man born into poverty who is determined to improve his situation. In the hope of finding the money he needs, he travels through unfamiliar lands filled with strange creatures. He meets the Spirit of Fire with its huge feathered head and flaming body, and receives assistance from a wizard and a unicorn. Yet, in the end, the answer to his woes is not far from home.Amos Tutuola was born in Abeokuta, Nigeria, in 1920. His first novel, The Palm-Wine Drinkard, was acquired by T. S. Eliot and published by Faber in 1952.
Download or read book Electronica Dance and Club Music written by MarkJ. Butler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discos, clubs and raves have been focal points for the development of new and distinctive musical and cultural practices over the past four decades. This volume presents the rich array of scholarship that has sprung up in response. Cutting-edge perspectives from a broad range of academic disciplines reveal the complex questions provoked by this musical tradition. Issues considered include aesthetics; agency; 'the body' in dance, movement, and space; composition; identity (including gender, sexuality, race, and other constructs); musical design; place; pleasure; policing and moral panics; production techniques such as sampling; spirituality and religion; sub-cultural affiliations and distinctions; and technology. The essays are contributed by an international group of scholars and cover a geographically and culturally diverse array of musical scenes.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Wellbeing written by Vicky Karkou and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-04 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, a growth in dance and wellbeing scholarship has resulted in new ways of thinking that place the body, movement, and dance in a central place with renewed significance for wellbeing. The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Wellbeing examines dance and related movement practices from the perspectives of neuroscience and health, community and education, and psychology and sociology to contribute towards an understanding of wellbeing, offer new insights into existing practices, and create a space where sufficient exchange is enabled. The handbook's research components include quantitative, qualitative, and arts-based research, covering diverse discourses, methodologies, and perspectives that add to the development of a complete picture of the topic. Throughout the handbook's wide-ranging chapters, the objective observations, felt experiences, and artistic explorations of practitioners interact with and are printed alongside academic chapters to establish an egalitarian and impactful exchange of ideas.
Download or read book The Legacy of Tanzanian Musicians Muhidin Gurumo and Hassan Bitchuka written by Frank Gunderson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-08-24 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Muhidin Maalim Gurumo and Hassan Rehani Bitchuka are two of Tanzania’s most well-known singers in the popular music genre known as muziki wa dansi (literally, 'music for dancing'), a variation of the Cuban-based rhumba idiom that has been enormously impactful throughout central, eastern, and western Africa in the contemporary era. This interview-based dual biography investigates the lives and careers of these two men from an ethnomusicological and historical perspective. Gurumo had a career spanning fifty years before his death in 2014. Bitchuka has been singing professionally for forty-five years. The two singers, affectionately called mapacha (“the twins”) by their colleagues, worked together as partners for thirty years from 1973-2003. This study situates these exemplary individuals as creative agents in a local cultural context, showcasing interviews, narratives, and nostalgic reminiscences about musical life lived under Colonialism, state Socialism, and current politics in the global neoliberal democratic milieu. The book adds to a growing body of work about popular music in Dar es Salaam and shines a light on these artists’ creative processes, the choices they have made regarding rare resources, their styles and efficacy in conflict resolution, and their own memories regarding the musical art they have created.
Download or read book Cinema and Urban Culture in Shanghai 1922 1943 written by Yingjin Zhang and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume establishes cinema as a vital force in Shanghai culture, focusing on early Chinese cinema. It surveys the history and historiography of Chinese cinema and examines the development of the various aspects affecting the film culture.
