Download or read book Living in the Merry Ghetto written by Trever Hagen and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living in the Merry Ghetto reframes how people use music to build resistance. Author Trever Hagen addresses the social context of illegal music-making in Czechoslovakia during state socialism. He tells the story of a group of rock'n'roll musicians who went underground after 1968, building a parallel world from where they could flourish: the Merry Ghetto. The book examines the case of the Czech Underground and the politics of their music and their way of life, paying close attention to the development of the ensemble The Plastic People of the Universe. Taking in multiple political transitions from the 1940s-2000s, the story focuses on non-official cultural practices such as listening to foreign radio broadcasts, seeking out copied cassette tapes, listening to banned LPs, growing long hair, attending clandestine concerts, smuggling albums via diplomats, recording in home-studios and being thrown in prison for any of these activities. Drawing on ethnographic interviews with Undergrounders, archival research and participant observation, Hagen shows how these practices shaped consciousness, informed bodies and promoted collective action, all of which contributed to an Underground identity.
Download or read book Living in The Merry Ghetto written by Trever Hagen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living in the Merry Ghetto reframes how people use music to build resistance. Author Trever Hagen addresses the social context of illegal music-making in Czechoslovakia during state socialism. He tells the story of a group of rock'n'roll musicians who went underground after 1968, building a parallel world from where they could flourish: the Merry Ghetto. The book examines the case of the Czech Underground and the politics of their music and their way of life, paying close attention to the development of the ensemble The Plastic People of the Universe. Taking in multiple political transitions from the 1940s-2000s, the story focuses on non-official cultural practices such as listening to foreign radio broadcasts, seeking out copied cassette tapes, listening to banned LPs, growing long hair, attending clandestine concerts, smuggling albums via diplomats, recording in home-studios and being thrown in prison for any of these activities. Drawing on ethnographic interviews with Undergrounders, archival research and participant observation, Hagen shows how these practices shaped consciousness, informed bodies and promoted collective action, all of which contributed to an Underground identity.
Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1960-11-28 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
Download or read book Musicking in the Merry Ghetto written by Trever Thomas Hagen and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By investigating the case of the Czech Underground from the 1960s to the 2000s, this thesis seeks to explore ways in which an enacted cultural space enables acts of 'togetherness' and as such 'protects' or 'immunizes' individuals and groups from perceived forms of oppression. The data presented in this thesis is taken from an ethnographic and archival study of the Underground through interviews, participant observation and archival research in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland. I describe how the term 'Underground' does not refer to a physical place but rather to a conceptual and symbolic space or set of occasions where dispositions are learned, maintained and adapted and where the world can be viewed, imagined and acted upon. I describe how that space was created through the location, arrangement and informal learning about how to appropriate a cluster of cultural practices and materials: physical appearances, actions, felt dispositions, mental states and objects. For those who became part of this r: Underground, to varying degrees, this cluster of cultural practices facilitated embodied, emotional and cognitive postures toward social and cultural life in Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic. These postures were in turn a platform for collective experience. I examine actors as they furnished this Underground cultural space through locating, opening up and crafting available aesthetic resources in local environments. My focus is on 'non-official' musicking practices in Czechoslovakia starting from the 1960s such as listening to the radio, seeking out records tapes, listening to LPs, growing long hair, illegal concerts, and home-studio recordings. Within these practices, I look to how aesthetic material-raw, un-tuned, heavy-took hold and provided a resource for the bases of community activity. Through these grounded examples, I show how a group of people assembled a parallel aesthetic ecology that allowed for acts of rejecting and communing, the doing of resistance. In this way, I attempt to show how resistance became a form of immunity or 'cocooning' against unwanted cultural material and thus a technology of health at the community level.
Download or read book The Ark written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1970-05-08 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
Download or read book Yapanchitra a Profile of Life written by Prabālakumāra Basu and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chiefly on the works of American, Australian, European, Indic, Japanese, New Zealand poets; includes selected works translated from Spanish, Czech, Japanese, Malayalam, Gujarati, Bengali, and other languages; conceived by the editor.
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Download or read book The Tree of Life Book Two written by Chava Rosenfarb and published by Terrace Books. This book was released on 2005-10-20 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume describes the lives of the novel’s protagonists in the Lodz Ghetto at the beginning of World War II. Chava Rosenfarb, herself a survivor of the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen, draws on her own history to create realistic characters who struggle daily to retain a sense of humanity and dignity despite the physical and psychological effects of ghetto life. Although horrendous experiences are depicted, the light of faith in the human spirit shines through this novel’s every page.
Download or read book Other Schindlers written by Agnes Grunwald-Spier and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2010-12-26 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thanks to Thomas Keneally’s book Schindler’s Ark, and the film based on it, Schindler’s List, we have become more aware of the fact that, in the midst of Hitler’s extermination of the Jews, courage and humanity could still overcome evil. While 6 million Jews were murdered by the Nazi regime, some were saved through the actions of non-Jews whose consciences would not allow them to pass by on the other side, and many are honoured by Yad Vashem as ‘Righteous Among the Nations’ for their actions.As a baby, Agnes Grunwald-Spier was herself saved from the horrors of Auschwitz by an unknown official, and is now a trustee of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust. She has collected together the stories of thirty individuals who rescued Jews, and these provide a new insight into why these people were prepared to risk so much for their fellow men and women. With a foreword by Sir Martin Gilbert, one of the leading experts on the subject, this is an ultimately uplifting account of how some good deeds really do shine in a weary world.
Download or read book The Living Church written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cats in Krasinski Square written by Karen Hesse and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cats in Krasinski Square once belonged to someone… and so did a young girl, whose family has been destroyed by war. Even as she and her sister struggle to survive amid the war's chaos, they risk their lives for a plan to help those still trapped behind Warsaw's infamous Ghetto walls. Newbery Medallist Karen Hesse has written a beautiful story about the courage of brave young women and men who, at great risk, fought not with weapons, but with their hearts and souls. Wendy Watson's luminous paintings inspire a visual journey to a time and place that should never be forgotten.
Download or read book Life written by Henry R. Luce and published by . This book was released on 1970-12 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Born Smiling written by Jenny Bright-Stonecipher and published by America Star Books. This book was released on 2011-05-26 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born Smiling—Introducing, for the first time ever, a new style of autobiography, uniquely designed by Author, Jenny Bright-Stonecipher. Jenny has successfully written humorous stories about her life, analyzed patterns in her development with various psychosocial theories, and drawn very interesting conclusions, perfectly placed at the end of chapters for easy reading. Her story—Is it possible for one to be born happy and remain that way all through life? Jenny Bright-Stonecipher says “Yes it is!” Jenny’s stories take her on a journey back in time, examining her entire lifespan history, where she takes a closer look at why she has always been so happy-go-lucky. Was she born that way? Was it her environment? Or, was it a combination of the two? On this venture of reflection, Jenny discovers that her mother and father used a Parenting Style that starkly contrasts to the more popular models of today. Who is Jenny Bright-Stonecipher? She is the Author of Abandonment: Brainstorming the Possible What Ifs of Disaster Planning with Disabled People. Her beginnings were rooted in Dayton, Ohio, but her venture out into the world eventually turned into a mission. With a Master’s degree in Social Work, Jenny has been advocating for disabled people for years. While winning the “Most Civic Minded” title in the 2006 Mrs. Pennsylvania/Mrs. United States Pageant, Jenny’s platform raised awareness to the needs of people who have disabilities. One thing for sure—things seem to always go Jenny’s way. Some think she simply has good luck. Jenny believes it’s a mix of God’s love and good Karma. “What comes around, goes around. If you’re a kind person and have love in your heart, beauty and the prizes in life will find you. It’s the universe balancing energy in a process we can’t fully understand yet.” In her book, Born Smiling, Jenny reveals her laughable stories of growing up with friends and family and shares her coping methods of how to be positive minded about life and offers her recipe for happiness, “Just what do I have to smile about?”
