Download or read book Mendel s Accordion written by Heidi Smith Hyde and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kar-Ben Read-Aloud eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to bring eBooks to life! A boy finds his great grandfather's accordion in the attic and with it the sweet history of klezmer music and the role the old accordion played in Jewish life through the years.

Download or read book Accordion Eulogies written by Noé Álvarez and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2024-05-28 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Searching, propulsive, and deeply spiritual, Accordion Eulogies is an odyssey to repair a severed family lineage, told through the surprising history of a musical instrument Growing up in Yakima, Washington, Noé Álvarez never knew his grandfather. Stories swirled around this mythologized, larger-than-life figure: That he had abandoned his family, and had possibly done something awful that put a curse on his descendants. About his grandfather, young Noé was sure of only one thing: That he had played the accordion. Now an adult, reckoning with the legacy of silence surrounding his family’s migration from Mexico, Álvarez resolves both to take up the instrument and to journey into Mexico to discover the grandfather he never knew. Álvarez travels across the US with his accordion, meeting makers and players in cities that range from San Antonio to Boston. He uncovers the story of an instrument that’s been central to classic American genres, but also played a critical role in indigenous Mexican history. Like the accordion itself, Álvarez feels trapped between his roots in Mexico and the U.S. As he tries to make sense of his place in the world—as a father, a son, a musician—he gets closer to uncovering the mystery of his origins.

Download or read book Head First Servlets and JSP written by Bryan Basham and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2008-03-25 with total page 911 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking to study up for the new J2EE 1.5 Sun Certified Web Component Developer (SCWCD) exam? This book will get you way up to speed on the technology you'll know it so well, in fact, that you can pass the brand new J2EE 1.5 exam. If that's what you want to do, that is. Maybe you don't care about the exam, but need to use servlets and JSPs in your next project. You're working on a deadline. You're over the legal limit for caffeine. You can't waste your time with a book that makes sense only AFTER you're an expert (or worse, one that puts you to sleep). Learn how to write servlets and JSPs, what makes a web container tick (and what ticks it off), how to use JSP's Expression Language (EL for short), and how to write deployment descriptors for your web applications. Master the c:out tag, and get a handle on exactly what's changed since the older J2EE 1.4 exam. You don't just pass the new J2EE 1.5 SCWCD exam, you'll understand this stuff and put it to work immediately. Head First Servlets and JSP doesn't just give you a bunch of facts to memorize; it drives knowledge straight into your brain. You'll interact with servlets and JSPs in ways that help you learn quickly and deeply. And when you're through with the book, you can take a brand-new mock exam, created specifically to simulate the real test-taking experience.

Download or read book From The Shadow Of An Accordion To Eternity Talking To Accordionists Worth Listening To written by Times Square Press and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-07-20 with total page 723 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From The Shadow Of An Accordion To Eternity. Talking To Accordionists Worth Listening To, published by TIMES SQUARE PRESS, NEW YORK, STARS ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE, AND ACCORDION STARS ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE. An authoritative, comprehensive and informative book on the world's most accomplished accordionists. Rich in substance. Well-designed. Pragmatic. Hundreds upon hundreds of interviews with living legends and most interesting accordionists in modern times. A wealth of information on all the disciplines, categories and genres of accordion's music. A world premiere treasure and essential reference tool for all the accordion's lovers, professional artists, critics, historians, conservatories of music, colleges, universities, music teachers, and decision makers of the world of music and showbiz. A must have book. Sponsored by the FEDERATION OF AMERICAN MUSICIANS, SINGERS AND PERFORMING ARTISTS, INCORPORATED (FAMSPA)

Download or read book Squeeze This written by Marion Jacobson and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No other instrument has witnessed such a dramatic rise to popularity--and precipitous decline--as the accordion. Squeeze This! is the first history of the piano accordion and the first book-length study of the accordion as a uniquely American musical and cultural phenomenon. Ethnomusicologist and accordion enthusiast Marion Jacobson traces the changing idea of the accordion in the United States and its cultural significance over the course of the twentieth century. From the introduction of elaborately decorated European models imported onto the American vaudeville stage and the instrument's celebration by ethnic musical communities and mainstream audiences alike, to the accordion-infused pop parodies by "Weird Al" Yankovic, Jacobson considers the accordion's contradictory status as both an "outsider" instrument and as a major force in popular music in the twentieth century. Drawing on interviews and archival investigations with instrument builders and retailers, artists and audiences, professionals and amateurs, Squeeze This! explores the piano accordion's role as an instrument of community identity and its varied musical and cultural environments. Jacobson concentrates on six key moments of transition: the Americanization of the piano accordion, originally produced and marketed by sales-savvy Italian immigrants; the transformation of the accordion in the 1920s from an exotic, expensive vaudeville instrument to a mass-marketable product; the emergence of the accordion craze in the 1930s and 1940s, when a highly organized "accordion industrial complex" cultivated a white, middle-class market; the peak of its popularity in the 1950s, exemplified by Lawrence Welk and Dick Contino; the instrument's marginalization in the 1960s and a brief, ill-fated effort to promote the accordion to teen rock 'n' roll musicians; and the revival beginning in the 1980s of the accordion as a "world music instrument" and a key component for cabaret and burlesque revivals and pop groups such as alternative experimenters They Might Be Giants and polka rockers Brave Combo. Loaded with dozens of images of gorgeous instruments and enthusiastic performers and fans, Squeeze This! A Cultural History of the Accordion in America represents the accordion in a wide range of popular and traditional musical styles, revealing the richness and diversity of accordion culture in America.

Download or read book Unfolding Practice written by Arzu Mistry and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unfolding Practice: Reflections on Learning and Teaching is a conversation between two artist-educators. Flowing across five chapters, the double sided accordion book has been curated from ten years of recorded conversations, field notes, planning, sketches, reflection, and teaching. The front of the book weaves text, illustration, cutouts, and screen prints, journeying through artistic process and educational practice. The back of the book is a guide, expanding on the practice of using accordion books as a tool for capturing, visualizing, and building upon reflective thinking. The brown paper alludes to the craft paper that is ubiquitous in schools and captures process more than the preciousness of a final product.

Download or read book Warhol Worm 160 written by I. D. Oro and published by I. D. Oro. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: President Pyromaniac´s new executive order allows all of the books and print material to burn while being rewritten by the Department of Tomecide. When the books burn then the alternative facts will take over the country and the government will rewrite the past. The government controlled internet, the fake media, and horrible social media influencers tell citizens what to think. Online learning replaces public education as the government bans teachers unions and destroys schools. The party of President Pyromaniac called Government of the Racist (G. O. P.) Party now controls all three branches of the federal government. The Government of the Racist (G. O. P.) Party has two thirds of the state’s legislatures behind them thanks to Russian President Vladimir Vladímirovich Putin. President Pyromaniac creates a new federal holiday called Vladimir Putin Decides Day that is celebrated every second Tuesday in November to thank his best friend for his help in the 2016 Presidential Election. A cast of characters must now deal with their new reality. Irmina finds the behavior of two of the members of her book club suspicious. Aurelio has a plan to defeat the boss of his hacker group and get the rest of the members to stop looking for the nuclear codes. Hadleigh meets a mysterious hitchhiker whose story does not add up as they travel across the country. Kylen runs into trouble as he goes to a dangerous neighborhood to conduct a book burning ceremony with his friends. Halle must decide whether to move in with her daughter or move out of the country to follow her dream. Jana does not want to believe that her husband is telling her the truth about her teaching job. Emmalee´s life is finally starting to go her way until a friend offers her a new challenge that can upset her life. Arely is given an opportunity to help out her country by developing a fake flu vaccine in Taiwan to destroy China and allow its annexation. Novalie must deal with her odd family and their lack of support for her passion in life. (Word Count 72,271)

Download or read book My Hard Life Lived Well written by K. Alexander Kardos and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-06-28 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir contains a remarkable life's journey of Maria Banfi from her childhood in Communist Yugoslavia, "Land of the South Slavs," to marriage, to a failed escape attempt to free Austria. Our second attempt had Maria and her husband Karl leaving their first child behind. It was heart-wrenching set of events that intertwined with the reality after World War II that was present as the cold war in the mid-1950s in Southeastern Europe. The Balkan region throughout history was full of conflicts and conquest with World War I, beginning with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on the twenty-eighth of July 1914 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. World War II was the traumatic aftereffect of World War I. The losing nations led by Nazi Germany and the kingdom of Italy were poor, in such disarray, and the collapse of their societies. It was only a short amount of time that they would rise against the victors. My Karl led me through the most harrowing, unpredictable, and challenging scenarios after we married and traveled northward to Austria. Escape for my generation and previous generations from our region of Slovenia was commonplace as they emigrated in search of a better life away from the oppressive, impoverished, and destitute in Northern Yugoslavia. Every decision my Karl made were solely based on "our survival" as no reflection, doubt, or second-guessing was allowed. Life was extremely difficult living out of an American-run displaced-persons camp No. 100 called Asten Lager in Linz, Austria, and both of us being day laborers with meager pay. Read through my accounts, thoughts, memories, and feelings as my Karl and I work through the many challenges to achieve our ultimate goal of being able to immigrate to the United States of America. Future volumes will contain our progress, frustrations, and setbacks we encountered while forging our futures and destiny under God.

Download or read book Accordion Stars Illustrated Magazine Book Volume 1 March 2019 written by Maxinillien de Lafayette and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-02-06 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accordion Stars Illustrated Magazine-Book. Vol.1, March 2019. In colors.Gracing the cover: Debra Peters, James Rand, Annelies Winten, Linda Ann Warren, Jean Dauvin, Madlyn.Published by Maximillien de Lafayette?, Times Squares Press?, Stars Illustrated Magazine?, New York, and Federation of American Musicians, Singers and Performing Artists, Inc. (FAMSPA). Interviews With Accordion world champions and the biggest names in the business. The world's 500 magnificent accordionists. Why accordion's large Organizations in the U.S. do not publish an accordion magazine? Health problems caused by playing the accordion, instructions for safe lifting and carrying techniques (Your accordion's case).The 10 Best Accordion Cases/Gig Bags. How to reduce fatigue, stress, and pain of the back caused by playing the accordion.

Download or read book A Practical Guide to Happiness written by Will Buckingham and published by Icon Books Ltd. This book was released on 2012-01-05 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apply the wisdom of philosophers to become a happier person. What is happiness? What makes you happy?Is there more to life than happiness? Learn to cultivate your taste for pleasure, free yourself from the various disturbances of life, and overcome irrational expectations that cause distress. Go with the flow and rediscover the joy of existence. Filled with exercises, tips and case studies, this Practical Guide will enable you to see happiness in a new light, with the help of the world’s greatest minds

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Download or read book The Accordion in the Americas written by Helena Simonett and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2012-09-28 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection considers the accordion and its myriad forms, from the concertina, button accordion, and piano accordion familiar in European and North American music to the exotic-sounding South American bandoneon and the sanfoninha. Capturing the instrument's spread and adaptation to many different cultures in North and South America, contributors illuminate how the accordion factored into power struggles over aesthetic values between elites and working-class people who often were members of immigrant and/or marginalized ethnic communities. Specific histories and cultural contexts discussed include the accordion in Brazil, Argentine tango, accordion traditions in Colombia, cross-border accordion culture between Mexico and Texas, Cajun and Creole identity, working-class culture near Lake Superior, the virtuoso Italian-American and Klezmer accordions, Native American dance music, and American avant-garde.

Download or read book Accordion World written by and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tigers of a Different Stripe written by Sydney Hutchinson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tigers of a Different Stripe takes readers inside the unique world of merengue típico, a traditional music of the Dominican Republic. While in most genres of Caribbean music women usually participate as dancers or vocalists, in merengue típico they are more often instrumentalists and even bandleaders—something nearly unheard of in the macho Caribbean music scene. Examining this cultural phenomenon, Sydney Hutchinson offers an unexpected and fascinating account of gender in Dominican art and life. Drawing on over a decade of fieldwork in the Dominican Republic and New York among musicians, fans, and patrons of merengue típico—not to mention her own experiences as a female instrumentalist—Hutchinson details a complex nexus of class, race, and artistic tradition that unsettles the typical binary between the masculine and feminine. She sketches the portrait of the classic male figure of the tíguere, a dandified but sexually aggressive and street-smart “tiger,” and she shows how female musicians have developed a feminine counterpart: the tíguera, an assertive, sensual, and respected female figure who looks like a woman but often plays and even sings like a man. Through these musical figures and studies of both straight and queer performers, she unveils rich ambiguities in gender construction in the Dominican Republic and the long history of a unique form of Caribbean feminism.

Download or read book Sounding Out Pauline Oliveros and Lesbian Musicality written by Martha Mockus and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-05-20 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crafting a dynamic relationship between feminism and music-making, this book offers a queerly original analysis of Oliveros’s work as a musical form of feminist activism and argues for the productive role of experimental music in lesbian feminist theory.

Download or read book The Accordionist s Son written by Bernardo Atxaga and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebrated international author, listed among the "21 top writers for the 21st century" (The Observer, U.K.) As David Imaz, on the threshold of adulthood, divides his time between his uncle Juan's ranch and his life in the village, where he reluctantly practices the accordion, a tradition that his authoritarian father insists he continue, he becomes increasingly aware of the long shadow cast by the Spanish Civil War. Letters found in a hotel attic, along with a silver pistol, lead David to unravel the story of the conflict, including his father's association with the fascists, and the opposition of his uncle, who took considerable risks in helping to hide a wanted republican. With affection and lucidity, Bernardo Atxaga describes the evolution of a young man caught between country and town, between his uncle the horse-breeder and his political father. The course of David's life changes one summer night when he agrees to shelter a group of students on the run from the military police. This is the most accomplished novel to date by an internationally celebrated writer. The Accordionist's Son is memorable for its epic scope—from 1936 to 1999—and the details with which it sparkles in gorgeous prose. It is easy to understand why The Observer listed Atxaga as one of the top twenty-one writers for the twenty-first century.

Download or read book Solo Guitar Playing written by Frederick M. Noad and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1976 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second volume of the popular classical guitar method features instruction, graded exercises, practice studies, and a survey of the guitar repertoire. Volume Two develops technique, sightreading, and includes an advanced repertoire of thirty works.