Song of Lawino & Song of Ocol
Title | Song of Lawino & Song of Ocol PDF eBook |
Author | Okot p'Bitek |
Publisher | Waveland Press |
Pages | 161 |
Release | 2013-01-31 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 147860994X |
During his lifetime, Okot pBitek was concerned that African nations, including his native Uganda, be built on African and not European foundations. Traditional African songs became a regular feature in his work, including this pair of poems, originally written in Acholi and translated into English. Lawinos wordsin the first poemare not fancy, but their creative patterns convey compelling images that reveal her dismay over encroaching Western traditions and her Westernized husbands behavior. Ocols poem underlines Lawinos points and confirms her view of him as a demeaning and arrogant person whose political energies and obsession with wasting time are destructive to his family and his community. The gripping poems of Lawino and Ocol capture two opposing approaches to the cultural future of Africa at the time and paint a picture that belongs in every modern readers cognitive gallery.
Song of a Prisoner
Title | Song of a Prisoner PDF eBook |
Author | Okot p'Bitek |
Publisher | |
Pages | 136 |
Release | 1971 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN |
Song of Prisoner confronts the tragedy of Africa's decade of freedom. The traverses the whole spectrum of her political sickness and contrasts it with the enduring reality of the bush - roots of family and clan, and the optimism of Africa's children in the face of hunger, hardship and humiliation.
The Aesthetic Discourse of the Arts
Title | The Aesthetic Discourse of the Arts PDF eBook |
Author | Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780792360063 |
The fine arts first emerged divided by the five senses yet, since their very origin, they have projected aesthetic networks among themselves. Music, song, painting, architecture, sculpture, theatre, dance -- distinct in themselves -- grew together, enhancing each other. In the present outburst of technical ingeniosity, individual arts cross all barriers, as well as proliferate in kind. Hence the traditional criteria of appreciation and enjoyment vanish. The enlarged and ever-growing field calls for new principles of appreciation and new values, essential to our culture. This collection initiates an inquiry into the aesthetic foundations of the fine arts. Their common aesthetic nature, as well as the differentiating specificities which sustain them, might reveal the universal role of aesthetics in human life.
Wer pa Lawino
Title | Wer pa Lawino PDF eBook |
Author | Okot p'Bitek |
Publisher | |
Pages | 156 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | Acoli poetry |
ISBN |
The Horn of My Love
Title | The Horn of My Love PDF eBook |
Author | Okot p'Bitek |
Publisher | Heinemann Educational Books |
Pages | 206 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN |
Queen All the Songs
Title | Queen All the Songs PDF eBook |
Author | Benoît Clerc |
Publisher | Black Dog & Leventhal |
Pages | 600 |
Release | 2020-10-20 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0762471239 |
Filled with fascinating photographs and juicy behind-the-scenes details, Queen All the Songs illuminates the unique recording history of a mega-bestselling and hugely influential rock band—album-by-album and track-by-track. A lovingly thorough dissection of every album and every song ever released by the beloved rock group, Queen All the Songs follows Freddie, Brian, Roger, and John from their self-titled debut album in 1973 through the untimely passing of Freddie, all the way up to their latest releases and the Oscar-winning film, Bohemian Rhapsody. The writing and recording process of each track is discussed and analyzed by author Benoît Clerc, and page-after-page features captivating and sometimes rarely seen images of the band. Queen All the Songs delves deep into the history and origins of the band and their music. This one-of-a-kind book draws upon decades of research and is a must-have for any true fan of classic rock.
The Defence of Lawino
Title | The Defence of Lawino PDF eBook |
Author | Okot p'Bitek |
Publisher | Fountain Books |
Pages | 140 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN |
A new translation of the late Okot p'Bitek's classic epic poem 'Wer pa Lawino', first published in Acholi in 1969, and recently listed in Africa's 100 Best Books. Lawino is a female voice, taking issue with her husband whom she witnesses imitating a European culture which is destroying a more deeply rooted African culture.