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Book When the Singing Stops

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  • Author : Di Morrissey
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2012-01-06
  • ISBN : 1466810300
  • Pages : 565 pages

Download or read book When the Singing Stops written by Di Morrissey and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-01-06 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The journey that changes her life. . . A young Australian woman leaves Sydney for a new world . . . Guyana, South America.Captivated by Guyana's wild, unspoilt beauty, Madison Wright Jones joins the native Amerindians struggling to preserve their culture against corporate exploitation. But her new-found commitment soon plunges Madison into a mire of murder, drug smuggling and political corruption. And finally, an unexpected love that pits her heart against her beliefs. From Sydney's sparkling harbour to the lush rainforests of South America, When the Singing Stops is a triumph of storytelling.

Book When the Singing Stops

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  • Author : June Burnett
  • Publisher : Arrow
  • Release : 1988
  • ISBN : 9780091736859
  • Pages : 191 pages

Download or read book When the Singing Stops written by June Burnett and published by Arrow. This book was released on 1988 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book When the Singing Stops

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  • Author : Di Morrissey
  • Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Release : 2011-06-20
  • ISBN : 1459622359
  • Pages : 610 pages

Download or read book When the Singing Stops written by Di Morrissey and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-06-20 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young Australian woman leaves Sydney for a new world - Guyana, South America. Captivated by Guyana's wild, unspoilt beauty, Madison Wright Jones joins the native Amerindians struggling to preserve their culture against corporate exploitation. But her new-found commitment soon plunges Madison into a mire of murder, drug smuggling and political corruption. And finally, an unexpected love that pits her heart against her beliefs. From Sydney's sparkling harbour to the lush rainforests of South America, When the Singing Stops is a triumph of storytelling.

Book When the Singing Stops

Download or read book When the Singing Stops written by Di Morrisey and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Day Nina Simone Stopped Singing

Download or read book The Day Nina Simone Stopped Singing written by Darina Al-Joundi and published by The Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Homeland actress’s “recollections of her unconventional youth in war-torn Beirut are heartbreaking yet humorous . . . in this unique” memoir (Publishers Weekly). Raised in 1970s Lebanon on Charles Baudelaire, A Clockwork Orange, and fine Bordeaux, Darina Al-Joundi was encouraged by her unconventional father to defy all taboos. She spent her adolescence defying death in Beirut nightclubs as bombs fell across the city. The more oppressive the country became, the more drugs and anonymous sex she had, fueling the resentment directed at her daily by the same men who would spend the night with her. As the war dies down, she begins to incur the consequences of her lifestyle. On his deathbed, her father’s last wish is for his favorite song, “Sinnerman” by Nina Simone, to be played at his funeral instead of the traditional suras of the Koran. When she does just that, the final act of defiance elicits a catastrophic response from her surviving family members. In this dramatic true story, Darina Al-Joundi is defiantly passionate about living her life as a liberated woman, even if it means leaving everyone and everything behind in this “beautifully taut and relentlessly unemotional” memoir (Kirkus).

Book When the Music Stops

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  • Author : Levet H. Ray
  • Publisher : Booktango
  • Release : 2012-07-31
  • ISBN : 1468911872
  • Pages : 14 pages

Download or read book When the Music Stops written by Levet H. Ray and published by Booktango. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sonya Tidwell is a divorced mother with a young son. She tries desperately to help him through the transition of their new life. She tries to teach him how to forgive the father that gave up on their family so easily. She loves him completely and will never give up on him and the man he will become. When the Music Stops by Levet H. Ray

Book When the Crickets Stopped Singing

Download or read book When the Crickets Stopped Singing written by Marilyn Cram-Donahue and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the summer of 1939, this historical novel for readers aged 10-14 tells the story of a young girl who finds the strength to defy the social norms of her community when a dangerous man poses a threat to a friend. Twelve-year-old Angie Wallace and her friends embark on a quest to "love thy neighbor," which includes newcomer Jefferson Clement. But soon the girls begin to suspect that he's a dangerous man, even if the adults refuse to see it. Like Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird, the characters in this book must explore the nature of truth and justice as Angie struggles to stand up for what she knows is right. It's the calm before the storm of World War II in 1939 in small-town Messina, California. Angie Wallace and her friends have set out on a mission to "love thy neighbor"--even if that means inviting weird Dodie Crumper to join in their summer plans. But as they move through their neighborly to-do list, the girls can't help but notice that there's something strange about the sudden return of Jefferson Clement. He might be well-dressed and respected, yet with each interaction they become more aware of his dark intentions, especially when it comes to young girls. The adults in town either don't notice or ignore the danger he poses, but when Angie is the only witness to a terrible accident, she must make a choice that calls into question everything she understands about truth and justice. With a setting that blossoms to life from the first page, When the Crickets Stopped Singing is the story of a transformative summer in a young girl's life, when the idylls of childhood collide with the perils of the world beyond.

Book Until the Singing Stops

Download or read book Until the Singing Stops written by Don Gold and published by Holt McDougal. This book was released on 1979 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Musical Times and Singing class Circular

Download or read book The Musical Times and Singing class Circular written by and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Singer at Penn Station

Download or read book The Singer at Penn Station written by Josephine deBois and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back in New York, Sergeant Samuel is demoted to work in the traffic police. He is teamed up with Huang, an experienced and deeply religious police officer. At Penn Station in New York, Samuel comes across Olis, a brilliant but illegally performing street singer with no memory of his past. As the goodhearted Samuelagainst the advice of Huangdecides to help Olis, he gradually becomes embedded in a complex case with its roots in the Vatican. With the help of Melera, a top gang leader deeply conflicted by being abused as a boy serving the church, Samuel uncovers how the servants of the church, driven by greed and deep, dark instincts, ruthlessly exploit innocent and loving individuals, who are driven to insanity. He also uncovers how the cardinal Marchetto Caccini with all meansincluding modern sciencespursues the highest positions in the church. At the end, the good-hearted Samuel is faced with the choice of either following his heart or revealing the horrifying secrets of the cardinal.

Book The Singing of the New World

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  • Author : Gary Tomlinson
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2007-07-12
  • ISBN : 0521873916
  • Pages : 194 pages

Download or read book The Singing of the New World written by Gary Tomlinson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-07-12 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of indigenous music-making in New World societies, including the Aztecs and the Incas.

Book Musical Times and Singing Class Circular

Download or read book Musical Times and Singing Class Circular written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 1440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Singing in the Spirit

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  • Author : Ray Allen
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2016-11-11
  • ISBN : 151280004X
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Singing in the Spirit written by Ray Allen and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws on field recordings and interviews with dozens of local New York singers to tell the story of sacred quartet singing in New York City's African-American church community, tracing its evolution and its role in worship and culture.

Book Eighteenth Century Russian Music

Download or read book Eighteenth Century Russian Music written by Marina Ritzarev and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little is known outside of Russia about the nation's musical heritage prior to the nineteenth century. Western scholarship has tended to view the history of Russian music as not beginning until the end of the eighteenth century. Marina Ritzarev's work shows this interpretation to be misguided. Starting from an examination of the rich legacy of Russian music up to 1700, she explores the development of music over the course of the eighteenth century, a period of especially intense Westernization and secularization. The book focuses on what is characteristic and crucial to Russian music during this period, rather than seeking to provide a comprehensive survey. The musical culture of the time is discussed against the rich background of social, political and cultural life, tying together many of the phenomena that used to be viewed separately. The book highlights the importance of previously marginalized sectors - serf culture, choral sacred culture, the contribution of foreign musicians, the significant influence of Freemasonry, the role of Ukrainian and West-European cultures and so on - as well as casting new light on the well-researched topic of Russian opera. Much new archival material is introduced, and revised biographies of the two leading eighteenth-century Russian composers, Maxim Berezovsky and Dmitry Bortniansky, are provided, as well as those of the serf composer Stepan Degtyarev and the Italian Giuseppe Sarti. The book places eighteenth-century Russian music on the European map, and will be of particular importance for the study of European musical cultures remote from such centres as Italy, Germany-Austria and France. Eighteenth-century Russian music is organically linked with its past and future and its contributory role in forming the Russian national identity and developing the Russian idiom is clarified.

Book Healthy Singing

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  • Author : Wingate, Judith
  • Publisher : Plural Publishing
  • Release : 2008-03-01
  • ISBN : 1597568740
  • Pages : 145 pages

Download or read book Healthy Singing written by Wingate, Judith and published by Plural Publishing. This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling text and truly beneficial book for both amateurs and professionals and, most importantly, for those voice teachers, coaches, choral directors, and singing voice specialists who provide care and support for them. Judith Wingate addresses typical vocal health problems encountered by singers and offers them, and their caregivers, practical suggestions, including straightforward, step-by-step exercises to improve vocal function. In particular, the book focuses on the needs of special groups of singers, such as public school music teachers and choral directors.

Book Singing of Birth and Death

Download or read book Singing of Birth and Death written by Stuart H. Blackburn and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Book Singing the Past

Download or read book Singing the Past written by Karl Reichl and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oral epic poetry is still performed by Turkic singers in Central Asia. On trips to the region, Karl Reichl collected heroic poems from the Uzbek, Kazakh, and Karakalpak oral traditions. Through a close analysis of these Turkic works, he shows that they are typologically similar to heroic poetry in Old English, Old High German, and Old French and that they can offer scholars new insights into the oral background of these medieval texts.Reichl draws on his research in Central Asia to discuss questions regarding performance as well as the singers' training, role in society, and repertoire. He asserts that heroic poetry and epic are primarily concerned with the interpretation of the past in song: the courageous deeds of ancestors, the search for tribal and societal roots, and the definition and transmission of cultural values. Reichl finds that in these traditions the heroic epic is part of a generic system that includes historical and eulogistic poetry as well as heroic lays, a view that has diachronic implications for medieval poetry.Singing the Past reminds readers that because much medieval poetry was composed for oral recitation, both the Turkic and the medieval heroic poems must always be appreciated as poetry in performance, as sound listened to, as words spoken or sung.