Download or read book The Voice in the Drum written by Richard K. Wolf and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on extensive field research in India and Pakistan, this new study examines the ways drumming and voices interconnect over vast areas of South Asia and considers what it means for instruments to be voice-like and carry textual messages in particular contexts. Richard K. Wolf employs a hybrid, novelistic form of presentation, in which a fictional protagonist interacts with Wolf's field consultants, to communicate ethnographic and historical realities that transcend the local details of any one person's life. The narrative explores how the themes of South Asian Muslims and their neighbors coming together, moving apart, and relating to God and spiritual intermediaries resonate across ritual and expressive forms such as drumming and dancing. Wolf weaves in the story of a family led by Ahmed Ali Khan, a North Indian ruler who revels in the glories of 19th century life, when many religious communities joined together harmoniously in grand processions. His journalist son Muharram Ali obsessively scours the subcontinent in pursuit of a music he naively hopes will dissolve religious and political barriers. The story charts the breakdown of this naiveté. A daring narrative of music, religion and politics in late twentieth century South Asia, The Voice in the Drum delves into the social and religious principles around which Muslims, Hindus, and others bond, create distinctions, reflect upon one another, or decline to acknowledge differences.
Download or read book The Drum written by Onye Onyemaechi and published by Millichap Books. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in Nigeria, Onye brings the heart and soul of Africa to The Drum: Voice of the Village. He teaches the reader how to approach the drum, how to play the drum, how to use the drum for healing and awakening as well as for entertainment, and how to create and celebrate community through the power of the drum. Onye tells the story of his village - where the drum was the heartbeat of the people, sounding out the messages of a new birth, mourning the passing of an ancestor, dancing the joy of new love. The drum was always vibrating, speaking the emotions that connected the people of the village with each other and with the world. A pioneer in using music, rhythms and dance to bring diverse communities together, Onye shows how music has a profoundly transformative capacity to affect personal and societal healing. He teaches how to use the drum for health, healing and ceremony as well as for creating community. Onye Onyemaechi is the founding director of Village Rhythms and Insights for Healing. He is a celebrated recording artist, performer, producer, composer, teacher, mentor, healer and consultant. Book jacket.
Download or read book Drum Sound and Drum Tuning written by Rob Toulson and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-05-26 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drum Sound and Drum Tuning assists drummers, sound engineers, and music students in learning critical skills related to drum sound and achieving an optimised and personalised drum kit set-up. The book covers the essential theories of percussion acoustics and develops this knowledge in order to facilitate creative approaches to drum tuning and professional-level recording and mixing of drums. All aspects of drumhead vibration, drumhead equalisation, and resonant drumhead coupling are de-mystified, alongside discussions relating to drumhead types, drum shell vibration, and tuning to musical intervals for different performance genres. The book develops drum sound theory and creative analysis into a detailed dissection of recording and production techniques specifically for drums, including discussions on studio technologies, room acoustics, microphone techniques, phase coherence, and mixing drums with advanced digital audio workstation (DAW) techniques and creative processing tools. Drum Sound and Drum Tuning includes many practical hands-on exercises that incorporate example tutorials with Logic Pro and iDrumTune Pro software, encouraging the reader to put theory into immediate creative practice and to develop their own listening skills in an informed and reflective manner. The book also documents primary interviews and opinion from some of the world’s most celebrated drummers, music producers, and sound engineers, enabling the reader to connect the relevant theories with real-world context, whilst refining their own personalised approach to mastering drum sound.
Download or read book The Drum With No Sound written by Katrina Rahman-Stephens and published by Playpen Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine waking up to a world without sound. How would you feel? What would you do? What would you think? Allow yourself to walk alongside Tunji, a young prince whose world is turned upside down. Tunji experiences what appears to be a seemingly impossible task. He can no longer hear the joyful sound of the village drummers. His parents, the great King and Queen must seek guidance from the Elder in order to bring that joy back into Tunji's life.
Download or read book The Boy with a Drum written by David Lee Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A little boy drums up quite a procession.
Download or read book Stick Control written by George Lawrence Stone and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2013-11-06 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Lawrence Stone's Stick Control is the original classic, often called the bible of drumming. In 1993, Modern Drummer magazine named it one of the top 25 drumming books of all-time. In the words of the author, this is the ideal book for improving "control, speed, flexibility, touch, rhythm, lightness, delicacy, power, endurance, preciseness of execution, and muscular coordination," with extra attention given to the development of the weak hand. This indispensable book for drummers of all types includes hundreds of basic to advanced rhythms and moves through categories of single-beat combinations, triplets, short roll combinations, flam beats, flam triplets and dotted notes, and short roll progressions.
Download or read book The Voice of the Borderlands written by Drummond Hadley and published by Rio Nuevo Pub. This book was released on 2005 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lifetime work of a poet--who has lived and worked for forty years along the Mexico-New Mexico-Arizona border as a cowboy and rancher--is collected here and ranges from powerful lyrics to droll Western haiku.
Download or read book The Volta Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Female Voices from an Ewe Dance drumming Community in Ghana written by James M. Burns and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Burns provides a detailed ethnography of a group of female musicians from the Dzigbordi community dance-drumming club from the rural town of Dzodze, located in South-Eastern Ghana. Dzigbordi is part of a genre known as adekede, or female songs of redress, where women musicians critique gender relations in society. Burns uses audio and video interviews, recordings of rehearsals and performances and detailed collaborative analyses of song texts, dance routines and performance practice to address important methodological shifts in ethnomusicology that outline a more humanistic perspective of music cultures. The book will appeal to those interested in African Studies, Gender Studies and Oral Literature, as well as ethnomusicology and includes a DVD documentary.
Download or read book The Drum written by Matt Dean and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Drum: A History, drummer, instructor, and blogger Matt Dean details the earliest evidence of the drum from all regions of the world, looking at cave paintings, statues, temple reliefs, burial remains, even existing relics of actual drums that have survived for thousands of years. Highlighting the different uses and customs associated with drumming, Dean examines how the drum developed across many cultures and over thousands of years before it became the instrument we know today. A celebration of this remarkable instrument, The Drum explores how war, politics, trade routes, and religion influenced the instrument's development. Bringing its history to the present, Dean considers the modern cultural and commercial face of the drum, detailing its role in military settings and the creation of the modern drum kit, as well as the continuing evolution of the drum, manufacturers, and the increased dependence on electronic drums, sampling machines* and drum recorders. Finally, drum fans will have at their fingertips the biographies of great drummers and major drumming achievements in the history of performance. The Drum: A History will appeal to every drummer, regardless of genre or style, as well as readers with a general interest in the evolution of this universal instrument. Book jacket.
Download or read book The Shamanic Drum written by Michael Drake and published by Talking Drum Publications. This book was released on 2010-04-16 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In response to the phenomenal resurgence of the drum nationwide, Michael has completely revised and expanded the 1991 edition for all those folks discovering the power of drumming. This useful book reveals profound teachings about shamanic drumming, which is a time-honored method of healing and helping others. Trained as a ceremonial drummer in the Mongolian and Native American shamanic traditions, Michael presents the first practical guide to applying this ancient healing art to our modern lives. Through a series of simple exercises, lessons, and rituals, he teaches you the basic shamanic methods of drumming. The focus is on creating sacred space, journeying, power practice, power animals, geomancy, drum therapy, drum harmonics, drum circle dynamics, and the universal rhythmic phenomena that come into play whenever we drum. The techniques are simple and powerful. Whether you are an accomplished percussionist or a total beginner, this user-friendly book will help you harness the power of drumming.
Download or read book Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics written by James Hastings and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encyclop dia of Religion and Ethics Mundas Phrygians written by James Hastings and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scope: theology, philosophy, ethics of various religions and ethical systems and relevant portions of anthropology, mythology, folklore, biology, psychology, economics and sociology.
Download or read book To Be a Drum written by Evelyn Coleman and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2000-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daddy Wes tells how Africans were brought to America as slaves, but promises his children that as long as they can hear the rhythm of the earth, they will be free.
Download or read book Dancing to the Drum Machine written by Dan LeRoy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-10-06 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dancing to the Drum Machine is a never-before-attempted history of what is perhaps the most controversial musical instrument ever invented: the drum machine. Here, author Dan LeRoy reveals the untold story of how their mechanical pulse became the new heartbeat of popular music. The pristine snap of the LinnDrum. The bottom-heavy beats of the Roland 808. The groundbreaking samples of the E-MUSP-1200. All these machines-and their weirder, wilder-sounding cousins-changed composition, recording, and performance habits forever. Their distinctive sounds and styles helped create new genres of music, like hip hop and EDM. But they altered every musical style, from mainstream pop to heavy metal to jazz. Dan LeRoy traces the drum machine from its low-tech beginnings in the Fifties and Sixties to its evolution in the Seventies and its ubiquity in the Eighties, when seemingly overnight, it infiltrated every genre of music. Drum machines put some drummers out of work, while keeping others on their toes. They anticipated virtually every musical trend of the last five decades: sequencing, looping, sampling, and all forms of digital music creation. But the personalities beneath those perfect beats make the story of drum machines a surprisingly human one-told here for the very first time.
Download or read book Drum Circle written by Chalo Eduardo and published by Alfred Music Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique guide to world percussion features descriptions and performance techniques for 28 different instruments, plus exercises, traditional rhythms, and cultural information. 76 pages.
Download or read book The Nostalgic Drum written by Femi Osofisan and published by Africa World Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays by Femi Osofisan, the internationally respected Nigerian dramatist and poet, who is widely hailed as one of Africa's leading writers of the generation following on from Wole Soyinka and Chinua Achebe. With acerbic wit and with idealistic fervour, Osofisan speaks in these essays about the place of literature and drama, and those who consume it, in the troubled post-colonial continent that is Africa. The result is a passionate and original insight, not only into the work of his contemporaries, but also into the adventure of the Africa of the past.
