Trees Without Wind
Title | Trees Without Wind PDF eBook |
Author | Rui Li |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 205 |
Release | 2012-12-25 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 023116274X |
"Trees without wind takes place in a remote Shanxi village during the Cultural Revolution. A rare affliction has left the residents physically stunted, and the deformed villagers, echoing the manipulated masses of China, become pawns in the Party's factional infighting."--Book cover.
Improvisation and Composition in Balinese Gendér Wayang
Title | Improvisation and Composition in Balinese Gendér Wayang PDF eBook |
Author | Nicholas Gray |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 263 |
Release | 2016-12-05 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1351928309 |
This book is an examination of the music of the Balinese gendér wayang, the quartet of metallophones - gendér - that accompanies the Balinese shadow puppet play - wayang kulit. The book focuses on processes of musical variation, the main means of creating new music in this genre, and the implications of these processes for the social and historical study of Balinese music, musical aesthetics, concepts of creativity and compositional methods. Dr Nick Gray tackles a number of core ethnomusicological concerns in a new way, including the relationship between composition and improvisation, and also highlights issues specific to Balinese music, including the importance of flexibility in performance, an aspect that has been largely ignored by scholars. Gray thus breaks new ground both in the study of issues relating to improvisation and composition and in Balinese music studies.
Judith Wright and Emily Carr
Title | Judith Wright and Emily Carr PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Collett |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2021-01-28 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 135018828X |
Knitting together two fascinating but entirely distinct lives, this ingeniously structured braided biography tells the story of the lives and work of two women, each a cultural icon in her own country yet lesser known in the other's. Australian poet Judith Wright and Canadian painter Emily Carr broke new ground for female artists in the British colonies and influenced the political and social debates about environment and indigenous rights that have shaped Australia and Canada in the 21st century. In telling their story/ies, this book charts the battle for recognition of their modernist art and vision, pointing out significant moments of similarity in their lives and work. Although separated by thousands of miles, their experience of colonial modernity was startlingly analogous, as white settler women bent on forging artistic careers in a male-dominated world and sphere rigged against them. Through all this, though, their cultural importance endures; two remarkable women whose poetry and painting still speak to us today of their passionate belief in the transformative power of art.
Translation
Title | Translation PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 432 |
Release | 1934 |
Genre | Forest management |
ISBN |
A Concordance to the Poems of Robert Browning
Title | A Concordance to the Poems of Robert Browning PDF eBook |
Author | Leslie Nathan Broughton |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1412 |
Release | 1925 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Symons's Monthly Meteorological Magazine
Title | Symons's Monthly Meteorological Magazine PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 444 |
Release | 1868 |
Genre | Meteorology |
ISBN |
The Beloved Invader
Title | The Beloved Invader PDF eBook |
Author | Eugenia Price |
Publisher | Turner Publishing Company |
Pages | 317 |
Release | 2012-05-29 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1596529032 |
Third Novel in the St. Simons Trilogy A timeless tale of one man's devotion toward the women he loves, the sorrow of lost love, and the beautiful island on which compassion and kindness abound. In this masterful novel by Eugenia Price, a wealthy young northerner, Anson Dodge, discovers new meaning in his life on St. Simons Island, Georgia, just after the Civil War. A man of remarkable and unforgettable kindness and strength, he shares his heart with two very different women—Ellen, who passionately adores him, and Anna, who comforts him in sorrow. They each surrender themselves to his dreams. Anson's story unfolds as a beautiful tale of honor when he rebuilds the war-torn Christ Church, Frederica, in memory of happy and lost love.