Download or read book Welcome to New Country written by David A. Westbrook and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to New Country shows (as opposed to argues) how and why commercial new country music is a major collective achievement, on par with jazz and the Broadway musical. A traditionally Southern and working class idiom has been transformed into a national and middle class mode of expression that articulates many of the hopes and concerns of life in America today. At its most interesting, new country music is music for the middle: middle class, middle aged, and often in the middle of the country.Welcome to New Country is written for anybody who can follow a serious country song -- which is a lot of people. It is also written sympathetically, as a small contribution to ameliorating some of the divides that run through this nation.Using copious quotation from hits, straightforward explication, and a bit of memoir, the book shows how new country music articulates an American mythos. Country music not only expresses an imaginary (small towns, cars, fields, etc.), but also meditates on life, from birth to death, home to politics to being out on the lake to God.Politically, country music reflects changing ideas of America itself, which may be caricatured as a shift from experiment in self governance to appreciation of American experiences. America is reinventing herself, and this music is a way to start talking, in very plain language, about how.Psychologically, new country music is on occasion what in another context was called existential: it queries, sometimes rather desperately, the significance of often ordinary lives. Indeed, there are a number of country music songs (and a chapter of the book) about "life" itself, and how we stand vis-a-vis our days. Middle aged concerns. So country music is popular and commercial and so forth, but that is not to be confused with unserious.I hope you enjoy the book; it has been a good long journey.
Download or read book Welcome to My Country written by Laklak Burarrwanga and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Come and spend some time with us at Bawaka. Get a taste of what it is like at different times of the year, and listen to our stories. Laklak Burarrwanga and family invite you to their Country, centred on a beautiful beach in Arnhem Land. Its crystal waters are full of fish, turtle, crab and stingray, to hunt; the land behind has bush fruits, pandanus for weaving, wood for spears, all kinds of useful things. This country is also rich with meaning. 'We can go anywhere and see a river, hill, tree, rock telling a story.' Here too is Laklak's own history, from her long walk across Arnhem Land as a child to her people's fight for land rights and for a say in their children's schooling. She and her family stand tall, a proud and successful Indigenous community. In the Yolngu world, we have a library in the land. You can't destroy it. If you burn it, it grows again. The land is full of more knowledge than you can imagine. 'Welcome to My Country is a beautifully warm, inviting experience. As soon as I read 'When the moon goes past you can see its reflection (in the water) like the inside of your heart', I knew this would be a very special read. Being immersed in an 'experience' is the way I would describe this book. It is an enticing journey into the heart of Yolngu life, in all its wonder across the physical, artistic and spiritual world. I love the conversational style - we walk, talk and sit down with family on every page. Lovely.' - Ros Moriarty, author of Listening to Country
Download or read book Marcia Langton Welcome to Country written by Marcia Langton and published by Hardie Grant Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marcia Langton: Welcome to Country is a curated guidebook to Indigenous Australia and the Torres Strait Islands. In its pages, respected scholar and author Professor Marcia Langton offers fascinating insights into Indigenous languages and customs, history, native title, art and dance, storytelling, and cultural awareness and etiquette for visitors. There is also a directory of Indigenous tourism experiences, organised by state or territory, covering galleries and festivals, national parks and museums, communities that are open to visitors, as well as tours and performances. This book is essential for anyone travelling around Australia who wants to learn more about the culture that has thrived here for over 50,000 years. It also offers the chance to enjoy tourism opportunities that will show you a different side of this fascinating country — one that remains dynamic, and is filled with openness and diversity.
Download or read book Welcome To Country written by Aunty Joy Murphy and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri People. We are part of this land and the land is part of us This is where we come from. Wominjeka Wrundjeri balluk yearmenn koondee bik. Welcome to Country.
Download or read book An Irish Country Welcome written by Patrick Taylor and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Irish Country Welcome is a charming entry in Patrick Taylor's internationally bestselling Irish Country series. In the close-knit Northern Irish village of Ballybucklebo, it’s said that a new baby brings its own welcome. Young doctor Barry Laverty and his wife Sue are anxiously awaiting their first child, but as the community itself prepares to welcome a new decade, the closing months of the 1960s bring more than a televised moon landing to Barry, his friends, his neighbors, and his patients, including a number of sticky questions. A fledgling doctor joins the practice as a trainee, but will the very upper-class Sebastian Carson be a good fit for the rough and tumble of Irish country life? And as sectarian tensions rise elsewhere in Ulster, can a Protestant man marry the Catholic woman he dearly loves, despite his father’s opposition? And who exactly is going to win the award for the best dandelion wine at this year’s Harvest Festival? But while Barry and Dr. Fingal Flahertie O’Reilly and their fellow physicians deal with everything from brain surgery to a tractor accident to a difficult pregnancy, there’s still time to share the comforting joys and pleasures of this very special place: fly-fishing, boat races, and even the town’s very first talent competition! Welcome back to Ballybucklebo, as vividly brought to life by a master storyteller.
Download or read book Welcome to Entrepreneur Country written by Julie Meyer and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-05-17 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The social contract has changed for ever: whether between government and individual capitalists, start-ups and corporates, or men and women. Many young people want to work for themselves. Feminine strength in the workplace, both in men and women, is in the ascendancy. Government must justify its role within society. Digital and software is replacing manufacturing as the dominant industrial paradigm. Corporates with their cash reserves will be the new venture capitalists. In Welcome to Entrepreneur Country, Julie Meyer, who has worked closely with many of the biggest technology entrepreneurs over the past fifteen years, explains how society is re-organising itself. She offers a guide to EntrepreneurCountry Global and shows how everyone can embrace the change. Moreover, she shares her own experiences, as well as those gleaned from working alongside some of the world's biggest success stories in the technology world. In this fascinating new book, every entrepreneur and business owner, however large or small, will recognise their own journey and learn how the digital future will affect them.
Download or read book Welcome to New Zealand written by Heather Knowles and published by Milliken Publishing Company. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issue your students a passport to travel the globe with this incredible packet on New Zealand! Units feature in-depth studies of its history, culture, language, foods, and so much more. Reproducible pages provide cross-curricular reinforcement and bonus content, including activities, recipes, and games. Numerous ideas for extension activities are also provided. Beautiful illustrations and photographs make students feel as if theyre halfway around the world. Perfect for any teacher looking to show off the world, this must-have packet will turn every student into an accomplished globetrotter!
Download or read book Welcome to Germany written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Moryak written by Lee Mandel and published by Glagoslav Publications. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lee Mandel’s historical novel Moryak revolves around the story of Lieutenant Stephen Morrison, a naval officer sent by President Theodore Roosevelt on a top-secret mission in 1905. Morrison’s assignment is to work with British agent Sidney Reilly to kidnap Tsar Nicholas II and remove him from Russia before he can sabotage the upcoming Portsmouth Peace conference. The mission goes awry and Morrison is captured and sentenced to death. Through a quirk of fate, he is instead sent to the infamous Russian prison on Solovetsky Island. He soon catches the attention of the Bolshevik prisoners and their growing interactions come to have devastating effects on the evolving revolution in Russia, as well as the Allied war effort as the world descends into the chaos of World War I. As events unfold and secrets are unveiled in an uncanny political intrigue, Moryak in fact tells the life story of one man’s struggle for acceptance, him finding his place and finding himself.
Download or read book Going Places written by Julie Fry and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Migration and the movement of people is one of the critical issues confronting the world’s nations in the twenty-first-century. This book is about the economic contribution of migration to and from New Zealand, one of the most frequently discussed aspects of the debate. Can immigration, in economic terms, be more than a gap filler for the labour market and help as well with national economic transformation? And what is the evidence on the effect of migration not just on house prices but also on jobs, trade or broader economic performance? Building on Sir Paul Callaghan’s vision of New Zealand as a place ‘where talent wants to live’, this book explores how we can attract skilled, creative and entrepreneurial people born in other countries, and whether our ‘seventeenth region’ – the more than 600,000 New Zealanders living abroad – can be a greater national asset.
Download or read book Welcome to Pottersville written by Neil Spagna and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How The Yankees Took Over New York and Why The Mets Matter More Than Ever": The Mets are the Bailey Brothers Building and Loan versus the Yankees as Henry F. Potter in this humorous, informational, and satirical look at the ongoing battle between New York's two famous baseball teams. If you sit down in front of "It's A Wonderful Life" every holiday season, are a die hard baseball fan (particularly those of the New York Mets), or a Yankee Detractor you will be entertained and even informed by this unique baseball book.
Download or read book Lays and Lyrics written by Henry Morgan Hawkes and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From Research to Effective Practice to Promote Mental Health and Prevent Mental and Behavioral Disorders Proceedings of the Third World Conference on the Promotion of Mental Health and Prevention of Mental and Behavioral Disorders September 15 17 2004 written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Whom We Shall Welcome written by Danielle Battisti and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whom We Shall Welcome examines World War II immigration of Italians to the United States, an under-studied period in Italian immigration history. Danielle Battisti looks at efforts by Italian American organizations to foster Italian immigration along with the lobbying efforts of Italian Americans to change the quota laws. While Italian Americans (and other white ethnics) had attained virtual political and social equality with many other groups of older-stock Americans by the end of the war, Italians continued to be classified as undesirable immigrants. Her work is an important contribution toward understanding the construction of Italian American racial/ethnic identity in this period, the role of ethnic groups in U.S. foreign policy in the Cold War era, and the history of the liberal immigration reform movement that led to the 1965 Immigration Act. Whom We Shall Welcome makes significant contributions to histories of migration and ethnicity, post-World War II liberalism, and immigration policy.
Download or read book The Secret of Redemption written by Jeffrey Gale and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2023-09-22 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is November 2013, nearly thirty years after Rabbi Levin taught and comforted refusenik families in the former Soviet Union and presided over the twinning of his bat mitzvah student, Simone Da Costa, with Sanna Tsivkin of Leningrad. Rabbi Levin is currently serving a synagogue in northern Manhattan which consists of a substantial number of Holocaust survivors. As his congregation observes the seventy-fifth anniversary of Kristallnacht, he is acutely aware of hatred of the other in America. Inequality, discrimination, segregation, violence against racial minorities, anti-Semitic incidents, and anti-immigrant bias were in full force. ICE was bearing down hard upon illegal immigrants. Many have taken refuge in religious institutions to avoid deportation and family separation. The ghosts of 1938 have reappeared on the synagogue's doorstep. Both Kristallnacht and its aftermath and the plight of Soviet Jewry seem as if they had only happened yesterday. Thousands of miles away, Rabbi Levin's daughter, Bracha, engages in graduate work at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and works for a human rights organization. She is on the front lines of the ongoing Israel-Palestinian conflict As a lover of Zion who is saddened by acts of terrorism perpetrated against her own people, she witnesses prejudice and violations of human rights and becomes disillusioned. A famous saying attributed to the Baal Shem Tov states that forgetfulness leads to exile, but remembrance is the secret of redemption. The upcoming observance of Kristallnacht sets off a chain of events which would lead to communal challenges and would move Rabbi Levin's community work in an unpredictable direction. Bracha's experiences would lead to serious questioning that would shape her career path. As both father and daughter embark upon a journey of remembrance, face the challenges of the present, and envision a brighter future for humanity, they discover the real secret of redemption.
Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1986-05-12 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
Download or read book Transactions written by Kansas State Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1st-6th biennial reports of the society, 1875-88, included in v. 1-4.
