Author: BOFF. WHALLEYPublisher:
ISBN: 9781912101290
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Louder and Faster
Author: Deborah WongPublisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520304527
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Louder and Faster is a cultural study of the phenomenon of Asian American taiko, the thundering, athletic drumming tradition that originated in Japan. Immersed in the taiko scene for twenty years, Deborah Wong has witnessed cultural and demographic changes and the exponential growth and expansion of taiko particularly in Southern California. Through her participatory ethnographic work, she reveals a complicated story embedded in memories of Japanese American internment and legacies of imperialism, Asian American identity and politics, a desire to be seen and heard, and the intersection of culture and global capitalism. Exploring the materialities of the drums, costumes, and bodies that make sound, analyzing the relationship of these to capitalist multiculturalism, and investigating the gender politics of taiko, Louder and Faster considers both the promises and pitfalls of music and performance as an antiracist practice. The result is a vivid glimpse of an Asian American presence that is both loud and fragile.
DRAGONSTOEN
Author: Phillip J. BoucherPublisher: Phillip J. Boucher
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
“In the land of Husanta, there are kings, and there are villains. There are friends, and there are foes. There are Dragos, and there are Majji. There are dragons, and there are girls. And for one young Dragontend, an attack on the castle and the accidental journey on a fleeing dragon will propel him on a reluctant search for the missing symbol of rightful royal rule. Then, there will be a hero.” An attack on the castle by renegade Majji led by the king’s evil brother-in-law, and an accidental journey on a fleeing dragon, propels young Dragontend Addler Berrington on a reluctant search for the Dragonstoen, the missing symbol of rightful royal rule. Torn between his love for the king’s granddaughter Alnya, and his lust for Genelie Coverton, daughter of the king’s brother-in-law, he is lured into accompanying Genelie on her obsessive search for the Dragonstoen amulet. But when Alnya, searching for the missing Addler and Nesra the dragon, finally meets up with them, she is forced to fight Genelie. Who will win Addler's heart and will the Dragonstoen amulet ever be found?
Small Is Big, Slow Is Fast
Author: Caesar KalinowskiPublisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 0310517028
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
You don’t need to have the talents of a rock star or the wisdom of Yoda to effectively and naturally live a life on mission with God. And you do not have to add a big list of new activities to your life! Instead, it is the everyday ordinary things done with greater gospel-intentionality...slowly over time...that make all the difference. Biblical and super practical, Small Is Big, Slow Is Fast helps readers respond to Jesus’ call to each of us to be a missionary right where we live—in our own families and neighborhoods. It shows you step by step the essential elements that create environments for organic kingdom growth and multiplication. Whether you’re looking to lead your own family or are taking first steps toward starting a church that has discipleship and mission at its core, you will discover the secret to starting out small and going (seemingly) slower—and not feeling guilty about it. And you’ll be encouraged to trust that when you lay the right foundations, multi-plication will occur and will always be “faster” and more successful in the long run.
Olga's Room
Author: Dea LoherPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1849438455
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 43
Book Description
‘The only way not to be a heroine, a martyr, a victim, is to make myself an accomplice, a collaborator.’ Communist. Jew. Revolutionary. Lover. Mother. Olga Benario’s story is a searing tale of survival as alongside her fellow prisoners she struggles to hold onto her disintegrating sense of self. Based on real events of the 1930s-40s focusing on Benario’s time in Brazil and Germany, this gripping play was the first work by one of Europe’s foremost contemporary dramatists, Dea Loher, and was originally performed in 1992. After their highly successful run in Luxembourg City, Speaking in Tongues bring the English-language world premiere to London.
Author: Home Boy: #6
Author: Gary FabbriPublisher: ABDO
ISBN: 1098234235
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
As team captain, Kai is always in control on the field. He's like the glue that keeps the team together, and the team relies on him to be a solid, talented player. But at home, as hard as he tries, Kai can't keep his parents together. Their fighting intensifies so much that Kai's frustrations spill over into school and soccer. Will he be able to provide what the team needs without the home support that he used to take for granted? Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Claw is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO.
The RaSahNeb
Author: Jess MoorlandPublisher: Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Pu
ISBN: 9781843863687
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
During a summer of extreme weather, a devastating landslide changes the ancient face of Pendle Hill and causes a dark energy to escape from its centuries of imprisonment. As it spreads like a plague among the population, first in England and then out into the wider world, it makes people act according to their innermost desires, regardless of the cost to themselves or others. Inevitably, chaos and anarchy ensue as the threads that bind society shatter. The RaSahNeb, in their various modern incarnations, have very little time to regroup and fulfill their ancient destiny. Using the power and wisdom gained from their experience of all the world s many religions, they find a way to capture and contain the dark energy again, literally saving the people of the world from themselves. That is, until the next time
Longing
Author: William BoydPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 147251744X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
All things pass – is this your philosophy? Is there no room for love in your philosophy of life? Renowned and best-selling novelist William Boyd, CBE, adapts two Chekhov short stories, A Visit to Friends and My Life, to weave a comic tale about nineteenth-century Russian provincial life, both familiar and unfamiliar. When Kolia is invited to visit his oldest friends on their Estate in the country he anticipates a pleasant break from Moscow life. But as the comedy of provincial life plays out around him, he finds himself adrift in a miasma of false expectations, missed opportunities, and unspoken passions.
MASH
Author: Otto ApelPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813170575
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
" When North Korean forces invaded South Korea on June 25, 1950, Otto Apel was a surgical resident living in Cleveland, Ohio, with his wife and three young children. A year later he was chief surgeon of the 8076th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital constantly near the front lines in Korea. Immediately upon arriving in camp, Apel performed 80 hours of surgery. His feet swelled so badly that he had to cut his boots off, and he saw more surgical cases in those three and a half days than he would have in a year back in Cleveland. There were also the lighter moments. When a Korean came to stay at the 8076th, word of her beauty spread so rapidly that they needed MPs just to direct traffic. Apel also recalls a North Korean aviator, nicknamed ""Bedcheck Charlie,"" who would drop a phony grenade from an open-cockpit biplane, a story later filmed for the television series. He also tells of the day the tent surrounding the women's shower was ""accidentally"" blown off by a passing helicopter. In addition to his own story, Apel details the operating conditions, workload, and patient care at the MASH units while revealing the remarkable advances made in emergency medical care. MASH units were the first hospitals designed for operations close to the front lines, and from this particularly difficult vantage, their medical staffs were responsible for innovations in the use of antibiotics and blood plasma and in arterial repair. On film and television, MASH doctors and nurses have been portrayed as irreverent and having little patience with standard military procedures. In this powerful memoir, Apel reveals just how realistic these portrayals were.
