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Book THE END OF THE EARTH  Stories of Caminos

Download or read book THE END OF THE EARTH Stories of Caminos written by Dr. Guylene Gigi Tree and published by Writers Republic LLC. This book was released on 2020-05-22 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people have heard of the Camino de Santiago, the network of pilgrim trails in Spain that lead to the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, northwest Spain. Some of those people have walked it. Even more have considered walking it. Still others are fascinated by the adventure but do not see it as an adventure they would do. If you find yourself in any of these three characterizations, this book is for you. If you have walked a camino, you will enjoy the stories as they bring back memories of your walk. If you are considering walking a Camino, the information will better acquaint you with what to expect. If you enjoy stories of adventure, this book will let you walk in the authors shoes in ways you never thought possible. A fun read, full of adventures, mishaps, fun times, missteps, and spiritual moments.

Book The End of the Earth  Still More Stories of Caminos Book Three

Download or read book The End of the Earth Still More Stories of Caminos Book Three written by Dr. Guylene Gigi Tree and published by Writers Republic LLC. This book was released on 2022-06-19 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people have heard of the Camino de Santiago, the network of pilgrim trails in Spain that lead to the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, northwest Spain. Just about 90 kilometers west is a point on the Iberian Peninsula which is the furthest western point on the European continent, or the end of the earth. The famous pilgrim trails which crisscross Europe leading to these points are called Caminos. Some people have walked them. Even more have considered walking one or more. Still others, fascinated by the adventure, cannot walk a Camino but enjoy hearing stories of others who have done so. If you find yourself in any of these three categories, you will enjoy this book. In the first book, the author presented many stories of experiences of walking a Camino. In book two, and now in book three, the stories continue. Fun-filled, adventure-packed, informative, spiritual, and inspiring must read for Camino enthusiasts. The camino is more than a walking trail. It is about people past, present, and future. All have experienced or will experience the special connection found among the paths, the blessings which intertwine with the landscape, the people, and the history. The people and their stories are the Camino.

Book El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro

Download or read book El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro written by and published by Bureau of Land Management New Mexico State Office. This book was released on 1993 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Music and Revolution

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  • Author : Robin D. Moore
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2006-04-28
  • ISBN : 0520939468
  • Pages : 367 pages

Download or read book Music and Revolution written by Robin D. Moore and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-04-28 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music and Revolution provides a dynamic introduction to the most prominent artists and musical styles that have emerged in Cuba since 1959 and to the policies that have shaped artistic life. Robin D. Moore gives readers a chronological overview of the first decades after the Cuban Revolution, documenting the many ways performance has changed and emphasizing the close links between political and cultural activity. Offering a wealth of fascinating details about music and the milieu that engendered it, the author traces the development of dance styles, nueva trova, folkloric drumming, religious traditions, and other forms. He describes how the fall of the Soviet Union has affected Cuba in material, ideological, and musical terms and considers the effect of tense international relations on culture. Most importantly, Music and Revolution chronicles how the arts have become a point of negotiation between individuals, with their unique backgrounds and interests, and official organizations. It uses music to explore how Cubans have responded to the priorities of the revolution and have created spaces for their individual concerns. Copub: Center for Black Music Research

Book THE END OF THE EARTH   THE PERPETUAL PILGRIM BOOK FOUR

Download or read book THE END OF THE EARTH THE PERPETUAL PILGRIM BOOK FOUR written by Dr. Guylene Gigi Tree and published by Writers Republic LLC. This book was released on 2023-04-05 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people have heard of the Camino de Santiago, the network of pilgrim trails in Spain that lead to the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, northwest Spain. Just about ninety kilometers west is a point on the Iberian Peninsula, the furthest western point on the European continent, or the end of the earth. The famous pilgrim trails which crisscross Europe leading to these points are called Caminos. Some people have walked them. Even more have considered walking one or more. Still others, fascinated by the adventure, cannot walk a Camino but enjoy hearing stories of others who have done so. If you find yourself in any of these three categories, you will enjoy this book. Book four in this series "The End of the Earth" continues the stories. There is much more to walking a Camino than just walking. It is the beginning of the journey of a lifetime. So much to learn about yourself, your relations, your life, your world. It all begins with that first step. But be aware, there is no end. Once you begin your Camino, you are a pilgrim for life, a Perpetual Pilgrim.

Book Made in Latin America

    Book Details:
  • Author : Julio Mendívil
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2015-12-22
  • ISBN : 113473719X
  • Pages : 197 pages

Download or read book Made in Latin America written by Julio Mendívil and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Made in Latin America serves as a comprehensive introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of contemporary Latin American popular music. Each essay, written by a leading scholar of Latin American music, covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of popular music in Latin America and provides adequate context so readers understand why the figure or genre under discussion is of lasting significance. The book first presents a general description of the history and background of popular music, followed by essays organized into thematic sections: Theoretical Issues; Transnational Scenes; Local and National Scenes; Class, Identity, and Politics; and Gendered Scenes.

Book Cuban Music from A to Z

    Book Details:
  • Author : Helio Orovio
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2004-03-12
  • ISBN : 082238521X
  • Pages : 249 pages

Download or read book Cuban Music from A to Z written by Helio Orovio and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2004-03-12 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available in English for the first time, Cuban Music from A to Z is an encyclopedic guide to one of the world’s richest and most influential musical cultures. It is the most extensive compendium of information about the singers, composers, bands, instruments, and dances of Cuba ever assembled. With more than 1,300 entries and 150 illustrations, this volume is an essential reference guide to the music of the island that brought the world the danzón, the son, the mambo, the conga, and the cha-cha-chá. The life’s work of Cuban historian and musician Helio Orovio, Cuban Music from A to Z presents the people, genres, and history of Cuban music. Arranged alphabetically and cross-referenced, the entries span from Abakuá music and dance to Eddy Zervigón, a Cuban bandleader based in New York City. They reveal an extraordinary fusion of musical elements, evident in the unique blend of African and Spanish traditions of the son musical genre and in the integration of jazz and rumba in the timba style developed by bands like Afrocuba, Chucho Valdés’s Irakeke, José Luis Cortés’s ng La Banda, and the Buena Vista Social Club. Folk and classical music, little-known composers and international superstars, drums and string instruments, symphonies and theaters—it’s all here.

Book Reader s Guide to Music

    Book Details:
  • Author : Murray Steib
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2013-12-02
  • ISBN : 1135942625
  • Pages : 928 pages

Download or read book Reader s Guide to Music written by Murray Steib and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reader's Guide to Music is designed to provide a useful single-volume guide to the ever-increasing number of English language book-length studies in music. Each entry consists of a bibliography of some 3-20 titles and an essay in which these titles are evaluated, by an expert in the field, in light of the history of writing and scholarship on the given topic. The more than 500 entries include not just writings on major composers in music history but also the genres in which they worked (from early chant to rock and roll) and topics important to the various disciplines of music scholarship (from aesthetics to gay/lesbian musicology).

Book Collected Poems

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  • Author : Federico García Lorca
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2002-08
  • ISBN : 0374526915
  • Pages : 1061 pages

Download or read book Collected Poems written by Federico García Lorca and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-08 with total page 1061 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bilingual collection of traditional tales from Latin America is divided into four categories: Scary Stories, Tricksters, Strong Women, and Myths.

Book Shamanism  2 volumes

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  • Author : Mariko Namba Walter
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2004-12-15
  • ISBN : 1576076466
  • Pages : 1088 pages

Download or read book Shamanism 2 volumes written by Mariko Namba Walter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-12-15 with total page 1088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to worldwide shamanism and shamanistic practices, emphasizing historical and current cultural adaptations. This two-volume reference is the first international survey of shamanistic beliefs from prehistory to the present day. In nearly 200 detailed, readable entries, leading ethnographers, psychologists, archaeologists, historians, and scholars of religion and folk literature explain the general principles of shamanism as well as the details of widely varied practices. What is it like to be a shaman? Entries describe, region by region, the traits, such as sicknesses and dreams, that mark a person as a shaman, as well as the training undertaken by initiates. They detail the costumes, music, rituals, artifacts, and drugs that shamans use to achieve altered states of consciousness, communicate with spirits, travel in the spirit world, and retrieve souls. Unlike most Western books on shamanism, which focus narrowly on the individual's experience of healing and trance, Shamanism also examines the function of shamanism in society from social, political, and historical perspectives and identifies the ancient, continuous thread that connects shamanistic beliefs and rituals across cultures and millennia.

Book Silvestre Revueltas

Download or read book Silvestre Revueltas written by Roberto Kolb-Neuhaus and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To this day, both at home and beyond Mexico's borders, Silvestre Revueltas (1899-1940) has been systematically portrayed as a nationalist composer. Unknown or ignored, his private and public writings destroy this myth straight out. The then-fashionable musicking of a presumed Mexicanness was far from Revueltas' mind. Strongly inspired by the Soviet Revolution, his dream was to find ways to sound the voice of the social people, not only those wandering the Mexican streets but also the gypsy miners in Spain, the black slaves in the U.S. South, and those in Cuba in colonial times. The various soundings of such social actors account for the diversity of aesthetics in his works, explored in this book through a correlation of the musical texts with the composer's writings as well as his political activism: he was not only active at home as a leading member of the League of Revolutionary Writers and Artists, but also significantly as a member of the Mexican delegation visiting Republican Spain in the midst of the war against Franco's fascist troupes. With few exceptions, though, most of his works seek to transcend standards of political art expression, such as program music or scores variously linked to word or image. Significantly, Revueltas' early instrumental works appear to abstract a musical ontology from the time and space of his diverse and multiple social actors through a daringly free use of montage and collage. Avant-garde rebellion and satire are also present in his best-known late works. Revueltas's is a unique and provocative decolonial art that pokes fun at the cosmopolitanistic fantasies of his Eurocentric peers at home as well as exoticizing expectations abroad. Unveiling the sense behind Revueltas's irony and the form political passion takes on in his music is the intention behind Kolb-Neuhaus's hermeneutic approach, which intertwines Revueltian art with his writings and political actions"--

Book Journal of Jazz Studies

Download or read book Journal of Jazz Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes discographies.

Book Music in Latin America

Download or read book Music in Latin America written by Pan American Union and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Symphonic Repertoire  Volume V

Download or read book The Symphonic Repertoire Volume V written by Brian Hart and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-02 with total page 987 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Central to the repertoire of Western art music since the 1700s, the symphony has come to be regarded as one of the ultimate compositional challenges. In his series The Symphonic Repertoire, the late A. Peter Brown explored the symphony in Europe from its origins into the 20th century. In Volume V, Brown's former students and colleagues continue his vision by turning to the symphony in the Western Hemisphere. It examines the work of numerous symphonists active from the early 1800s to the present day and the unique challenges they faced in contributing to the European symphonic tradition. The research adds to an unmatched compendium of knowledge for the student, teacher, performer, and sophisticated amateur. This much-anticipated fifth volume of The Symphonic Repertoire: The Symphony in the Americas offers a user-friendly, comprehensive history of the symphony genre in the United States and Latin America.

Book Inca Music Reimagined

    Book Details:
  • Author : Vera Wolkowicz
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2022-05-27
  • ISBN : 0197548946
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book Inca Music Reimagined written by Vera Wolkowicz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-27 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Latin American centennial celebrations of independence (ca.1909-1925) constituted a key moment in the consolidation of national symbols and emblems, while also producing a renewed focus on transnational affinities that generated a series of discourses about continental unity. At the same time, a boom in archaeological explorations, within a general climate of scientific positivism provided Latin Americans with new information about their grandiose former civilizations, such as the Inca and the Aztec, which some argued were comparable to ancient Greek and Egyptian cultures. These discourses were at first political, before transitioning to the cultural sphere. As a result, artists and particularly musicians began to move away from European techniques and themes, to produce a distinctive and self-consciously Latin American art. In Inca Music Reimagined author Vera Wolkowicz explores Inca discourses in particular as a source for the creation of national and continental art music during the first decades of the twentieth century, concentrating on operas by composers from Peru, Ecuador and Argentina. To understand this process, Wolkowicz analyzes early twentieth-century writings on Inca music and its origins and describes how certain composers transposed Inca techniques into their own works, and how this music was perceived by local audiences. Ultimately, she argues that the turn to Inca culture and music in the hopes of constructing a sense of national unity could only succeed within particular intellectual circles, and that the idea that the inspiration of the Inca could produce a music of America would remain utopian.

Book Southern Folklore Quarterly

Download or read book Southern Folklore Quarterly written by Alton Chester Morris and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section "Book reviews."

Book Sonidos Negros

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  • Author : K. Meira Goldberg
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019
  • ISBN : 019046691X
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book Sonidos Negros written by K. Meira Goldberg and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is the politics of Blackness figured in the flamenco dancing body? What does flamenco dance tell us about the construction of race in the Atlantic world? Sonidos Negros traces how, in the span between 1492 and 1933, the vanquished Moor became Black, and how this figure, enacted in terms of a minstrelized Gitano, paradoxically came to represent Spain itself. The imagined Gypsy about which flamenco imagery turns dances on a knife's edge delineating Christian and non-Christian, White and Black worlds. This figure's subversive teetering undermines Spain's symbolic linkage of religion with race, a prime weapon of conquest. Flamenco's Sonidos Negros live in this precarious balance, amid the purposeful confusion and ruckus cloaking embodied resistance, the lament for what has been lost, and the values and aspirations of those rendered imperceptible by enslavement and colonization.