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A Melody Called Peace

Una Melodia Chiamata Pace

by Ellias Aghili Dehnavi, Professor Sam Fischer, Dr. Ziauddin Sabouri, Professor Willem Petrus Burger, Sayed Abbas Mousavi, Professor Paul John Amrod, Negar Gorji Mohammadzadeh, Moonchild Diva, David Harrs, Dr. A.Celestine Raj0, Manohar M.D1, Michael Stevens2, Bloomington Indiana3, Dammy Ipaye4, Emma Beverage5, Dinesh Sharma6, Maria C. Pires Costa7, Jeff Fleischer8, Matt Pocock9, Roger Mather0, Iohannes Silvaticus1, Michael P. Johnson2, Hebe Mitchell3, O Anna Niemus4, Marvin Brato5, Paul McCann6, Frank Bana7, Viola B. Jelinek8, Madison9, Shimon Weinroth0, Sonali Shah1, Francis Duggan2, Scott Johnson3, Faith wood4, Kristopher Scott5, Shrija Chavali6, Rajaram Ramachandran7, Fahmina Arjumand Misha8, Lovina Sylvia Chidi9, Barry Van Allen0, Tami Gee1, Elangovan Selvapperumal2, Robert Rampani3, Bonnie Collins4, Margaret Alice5, Uloia Norris Moore6, Bob Gotti7, Bernice Hooks8, Mary M. Coughlin9, ToddMichael St. Pierre0, Zoe Sem1, Patricia Cox Napoli2, Frederick Kambemba Yamusangie3, Carmela Patterson4, Michael Gale5, David Moe6, Fay Slimm7, Charles M Moore8, Dr. Tulsi Hanumanthu9, Tatianna Rei Moonshadow0, John L. Waters1, Jim Foulk2, Loke Kok Yee3, Alem Hailu G/Kristos4, Mj (Mark) Lemon5, Juan Alfaro6, Rodriguez Spien7, Albert Aguado8, Spencer Amador9, Galina Italyanskaya0, John Davison1, Jonathan Mcintosh2, Bharati Nayak3, Sayeed Abubakar4, Prof. Tzemin Ition Tsai5, Oliver Edgar6, Marco Angelo7, Rodrigo Sanchez8, Adalwin Schulz9, Rahman Nikolov0, Ryan Adams1, Argien Teyromov2, Angela Renalford3, Mitas Peskian4, Bruno Sirva5, Andria Tokolov6, Darja Silimov7, Tom Visilina8, Alexander Kimiye9, Mohammad Ibrahim Gorji Mohammadzadeh0, Melika Asaadi1, Ario Moradmand2, Azam Izadi3, Atefe Mirsaeedi4, Fatemeh Hosseini5, Maedeh Izadi6, Mahsa Mohammadi7, Mahsa Shahkarami8, Maryam Amiri9, Masoud Shams00, Melika Koleini01, Niloufar Koleini02, Fatemeh Raiesie03, Somayeh Avarand04, Elham Jafari05, Abtin Safavi Pour06, Narges Bagheri07, Golnaz Zolfaghari08, Azin Abedi09, Forough Esfandiari10, Zahra Bampouri11, Zohreh Maghsoodi12, Nima Khoramak13, Parnian Sharifi14, Zahra Hajian15, Mohammad Bagheri Dargah16, Mina Sharifi17, Ali Askari18, Mohammad; Ghanbari Barzyan19, Mahdieh Heidari20, Mohammad Taghizadeh21, Ehsan Faramarzmanesh22, Sayed Hamzeh Salehi23, Farshid Gorji Mohammadzadeh;24, Mahmoud Mohammadi25, Mahdi Amini26, Minoo Madani28, Samin Gol Tondar29, Sepideh Razavi Darbar30, Shiva Samadani31, Mehrnoosh Aboutorabi32, Hadi Ajili33, Roohollah Modabber34, Mohammad Matindoost35 ...

Translated by Ellias Aghili Dehnavi ...

We have experienced such enormous developments in different fields of science and technology, sending Space Shuttles to outer space and discovering the microscopic germs hidden in the textures of the elements; A Melody Called Peace is here to make such progresses in the very core of our hearts and to remind us once more that literature and art can bridge the souls of strangers and bless them with ... Read more

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We have experienced such enormous developments in different fields of science and technology, sending Space Shuttles to outer space and discovering the microscopic germs hidden in the textures of the elements; A Melody Called Peace is here to make such progresses in the very core of our hearts and to remind us once more that literature and art can bridge the souls of strangers and bless them with
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Children Dancing in Bali

Practice, Performance, and Power

by Jonathan McIntosh ...

Series Book 17 - Dance and Performance Studies
The question of power and agency between children and adults within the context of traditional Balinese dance remains multilayered. While adults exercise authority over children in formal settings, an alternative dynamic exists outside the confines of traditional performance contexts where children operate as artistic agents. In this illuminating ethnographic study of Balinese dance traditions, ... Read more

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The question of power and agency between children and adults within the context of traditional Balinese dance remains multilayered. While adults exercise authority over children in formal settings, an alternative dynamic exists outside the confines of traditional performance contexts where children operate as artistic agents. In this illuminating ethnographic study of Balinese dance traditions,
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Performing Gender, Place, and Emotion in Music

Global Perspectives

by Fiona Magowan, Tina K. Ramnarine, Beverley Diamond, Louise Wrazen, Barley Norton, Jonathan McIntosh, Muriel Swijghuisen Reigersberg, Sara R. Walmsley-Pledl, Christine Yano0 ...

While ethnomusicologists and anthropologists have long recognized the theoretical connections between gender, place, and emotion in musical performance, these concepts are seldom analyzed together. Performing Gender, Place, andEmotion in Music is the first book-length study to examine the interweaving of these three concepts from a cross-cultural perspective. Contributors show how a theoretical ... Read more

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While ethnomusicologists and anthropologists have long recognized the theoretical connections between gender, place, and emotion in musical performance, these concepts are seldom analyzed together. Performing Gender, Place, andEmotion in Music is the first book-length study to examine the interweaving of these three concepts from a cross-cultural perspective. Contributors show how a theoretical
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Performing Ethnomusicology

Teaching and Representation in World Music Ensembles

Edited by Ted Solis ...

Performing Ethnomusicology is the first book to deal exclusively with creating, teaching, and contextualizing academic world music performing ensembles. Considering the formidable theoretical, ethical, and practical issues that confront ethnomusicologists who direct such ensembles, the sixteen essays in this volume discuss problems of public performance and the pragmatics of pedagogy and learning ... Read more

$31.99 USD

Performing Ethnomusicology is the first book to deal exclusively with creating, teaching, and contextualizing academic world music performing ensembles. Considering the formidable theoretical, ethical, and practical issues that confront ethnomusicologists who direct such ensembles, the sixteen essays in this volume discuss problems of public performance and the pragmatics of pedagogy and learning
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Ghostly Desires

Queer Sexuality and Vernacular Buddhism in Contemporary Thai Cinema

by Arnika Fuhrmann ...

Through an examination of post-1997 Thai cinema and video art Arnika Fuhrmann shows how vernacular Buddhist tenets, stories, and images combine with sexual politics in figuring current struggles over notions of personhood, sexuality, and collective life. The drama, horror, heritage, and experimental art films she analyzes draw on Buddhist-informed conceptions of impermanence and prominently ... Read more

$25.19 USD

Through an examination of post-1997 Thai cinema and video art Arnika Fuhrmann shows how vernacular Buddhist tenets, stories, and images combine with sexual politics in figuring current struggles over notions of personhood, sexuality, and collective life. The drama, horror, heritage, and experimental art films she analyzes draw on Buddhist-informed conceptions of impermanence and prominently
... Read more
Sounding Out the State of Indonesian Music

Edited by Andrew McGraw, Christopher J. Miller ...

Series series Cornell Modern Indonesia Project
Sounding Out the State of Indonesian Music showcases the breadth and complexity of the music of Indonesia. By bringing together chapters on the merging of Batak musical preferences and popular music aesthetics; the vernacular cosmopolitanism of a Balinese rock band; the burgeoning underground noise scene; the growing interest in kroncong in the United States; and what is included and excluded on ... Read more

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Sounding Out the State of Indonesian Music showcases the breadth and complexity of the music of Indonesia. By bringing together chapters on the merging of Batak musical preferences and popular music aesthetics; the vernacular cosmopolitanism of a Balinese rock band; the burgeoning underground noise scene; the growing interest in kroncong in the United States; and what is included and excluded on
... Read more
Javanese Gamelan and the West

by Sumarsam ...

Javanese Gamelan and the West studies the meaning, forms, and traditions of the Javanese performing arts as they developed and changed through their contact with Western culture. Authored by a gamelan performer, teacher, and scholar, the book traces the adaptations in gamelan art as a result of Western colonialism in nineteenth-century Java, showing how Western musical and dramatic practices were ... Read more

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Javanese Gamelan and the West studies the meaning, forms, and traditions of the Javanese performing arts as they developed and changed through their contact with Western culture. Authored by a gamelan performer, teacher, and scholar, the book traces the adaptations in gamelan art as a result of Western colonialism in nineteenth-century Java, showing how Western musical and dramatic practices were
... Read more
Rasa

Affect and Intuition in Javanese Musical Aesthetics

by Marc Benamou ...

Series series AMS Studies in Music
The complex notion of "rasa," as understood by Javanese musicians, refers to a combination of various qualities, including: taste, feeling, affect, mood, sense, inner meaning, a faculty of knowing intuitively, and deep understanding. This leaves us with a number of questions: how is rasa expressed musically? Who or what has rasa, and what sorts of musical, psychological, perceptual, and ... Read more

$32.39 USD

The complex notion of "rasa," as understood by Javanese musicians, refers to a combination of various qualities, including: taste, feeling, affect, mood, sense, inner meaning, a faculty of knowing intuitively, and deep understanding. This leaves us with a number of questions: how is rasa expressed musically? Who or what has rasa, and what sorts of musical, psychological, perceptual, and
... Read more
Music and Creation

In search of human culture, #3

by callender ...

Series Book 3 - In search of human culture
What is music and how can we study it?In this third volume of her forthcoming series 'In Search of Human Culture', the eminent anthropologist offers her own answers. she draws on both on her own first-hand work in Africa, the South Pacific and England and on extensive documentary sources, and provides a guide to the vast literature on the issues. ... Read more

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What is music and how can we study it?In this third volume of her forthcoming series 'In Search of Human Culture', the eminent anthropologist offers her own answers. she draws on both on her own first-hand work in Africa, the South Pacific and England and on extensive documentary sources, and provides a guide to the vast literature on the issues.
... Read more
Global Pop, Local Language

Edited by Harris M. Berger, Michael Thomas Carroll ...

Why would a punk band popular only in Indonesia cut songs in no other language than English? If you're rapping in Tanzania and Malawi, where hip hop has a growing audience, what do you rhyme in? Swahili? Chichewa? English? Some combination of these?Global Pop, Local Language examines how performers and audiences from a wide range of cultures deal with the issue of language choice and dialect in ... Read more

$15.89 USD

Why would a punk band popular only in Indonesia cut songs in no other language than English? If you're rapping in Tanzania and Malawi, where hip hop has a growing audience, what do you rhyme in? Swahili? Chichewa? English? Some combination of these?Global Pop, Local Language examines how performers and audiences from a wide range of cultures deal with the issue of language choice and dialect in
... Read more
Of Peninsulas and Archipelagos

The Landscape of Translation in Southeast Asia

Edited by Phrae Chittiphalangsri, Vicente L. Rafael ...

Series series Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
Comprising 11 countries and hundreds of languages from one of the most culturally diverse regions in the world, the chapters in this collection explore a wide range of translation issues.The subject of this volume is set in the contrasted landscapes of mainland peninsulas and maritime archipelagos in Southeast Asia, which, whilst remaining a largely minor area in Asian studies, harbors a wealth of ... Read more

$57.99 USD

Comprising 11 countries and hundreds of languages from one of the most culturally diverse regions in the world, the chapters in this collection explore a wide range of translation issues.The subject of this volume is set in the contrasted landscapes of mainland peninsulas and maritime archipelagos in Southeast Asia, which, whilst remaining a largely minor area in Asian studies, harbors a wealth of
... Read more
Male Bodies, Women's Souls

Personal Narratives of Thailand's Transgendered Youth

by LeeRar Costa ...

Get a detailed look at the Thai sex/gender systemthrough analysis of the personal stories from transgendered youth in ThailandThe Thai term sao braphet song (a second type of woman) describes males who reject the gender of masculinity for femininity. Male Bodies, Women’s Souls: Personal Narratives of Thailand’s Transgendered Youth uses the narrative method, stories in the words of these second ... Read more

$45.99 USD

Get a detailed look at the Thai sex/gender systemthrough analysis of the personal stories from transgendered youth in ThailandThe Thai term sao braphet song (a second type of woman) describes males who reject the gender of masculinity for femininity. Male Bodies, Women’s Souls: Personal Narratives of Thailand’s Transgendered Youth uses the narrative method, stories in the words of these second
... Read more

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