A flower starts as a seed and grows into a flower. Help children explore and understand the life cycle of a flower with this song and the picture book that goes along with it! Pairing music and text helps kids retain key facts--and is fun too! This eBook includes online music access.

A study of indigenous music-making in New World societies, including the Aztecs and the Incas.

This study of literary themes, linguistic practice and cultural traditions analyzes the oral traditions of Indo-Portugese creole verse, as a synthesis from European, African and Asian sources. This musical, dramatic and textual syncretism defines tradition within the group and maintains the identity of the creole community. References are primarily to Indian and Sri Lankan materials collected in the late nineteenth century and to data in the H. Nevill collection, an extensive manuscript of Sri Lankan Creole texts from the 1870s or 1880s, housed in the British Museum. The importance of these texts is linguistic, anthropological and sociological. They are persistent in their ability to give definition to creole culture, surviving in South Asia from the seventeenth century to the present.