Echoes Of The Great Catastrophe

Author : Panayotis League
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472129244
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Echoes of the Great Catastrophe written by Panayotis League and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2021-09-13 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Echoes of the Great Catastrophe: Re-sounding Anatolian Greekness in Diaspora explores the legacy of the Great Catastrophe—the death and expulsion from Turkey of 1.5 million Greek Christians following the Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922—through the music and dance practices of Greek refugees and their descendants over the last one hundred years. The book draws extensively on original ethnographic research conducted in Greece (on the island of Lesvos in particular) and in the Greater Boston area, as well as on the author’s lifetime immersion in the North American Greek diaspora. Through analysis of handwritten music manuscripts, homemade audio recordings, and contemporary live performances, the book traces the routes of repertoire and style over generations and back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean, investigating the ways that the particular musical traditions of the Anatolian Greek community have contributed to their understanding of their place in the global Greek diaspora and the wider post-Ottoman world. Alternating between fine-grained musicological analysis and engaging narrative prose, it fills a lacuna in scholarship on the transnational Greek experience.

Author : Panayotis League
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472132687
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Echoes of the Great Catastrophe written by Panayotis League and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2021-09-13 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multi-sited exploration of the musical legacy of the Anatolian Greek diaspora

Author : Archibald Gracie
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3849621669
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Truth About The Titanic (Illustrated & Annotated Edition) written by Archibald Gracie and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2012 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This commemorative edition includes all the photos from the first edition of this unbelievable account as well as a detailed essay about the history of steamships and steamship lines up to the year 1912. Furthermore this volume features an interactive table-of-contents as well as perfect formatting for 21st century electronic reading devices 'The Truth About the Titanic', by Colonel Archibald Gracie, is a striking recital of the monumental shipwreck, by the sole survivor of all the men passengers, "stationed during the loading of six or more life-boats with women and children on the port side of the ship.'' The book is written as a tribute and testimony to the "heroism on the part of all concerned." Colonel Gracie refutes many of the press reports of the disaster, as for instance, the Captain and the First Officer shooting themselves, for which statement he says there is no direct testimony. The story of the author's marvelous escape beggars the imagination and gives proof of a remarkable telepathic communication with his wife. Horrible are the scenes described and they bring vividly before you the heroism and endurance that were borne until the arrival of the Carpathia. Some of the testimony taken before the Senate Committee and the British Courts of Inquiry is analyzed and the story of each lifeboat is given according to the testimony given and the different affidavits. The part devoted to J. Bruce Ismay's testimony will be of especial interest to readers. Colonel Gracie's death, eight months after the world's greatest marine disaster, was due to the exposure and strain received at that time, and the restraint is a marked feature in this vivid account of an unprecedented ocean disasterwhich occasioned the sympathy of the world.

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Total Pages : 952 pages
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Total Pages : 940 pages
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Author : Lorettus Sutton Metcalf
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Total Pages : 944 pages
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Download or read book Forum written by Lorettus Sutton Metcalf and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Leicester Literary & Philosophical Society
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Total Pages : 1220 pages
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Author : Joel E. Rubin
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1580465986
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century written by Joel E. Rubin and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2020 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The music of clarinetists Naftule Brandwein and Dave Tarras is iconic of American klezmer music. Their legacy has had an enduring impact on the development of the popular world music genre.

Author : Sarah Politz
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472903284
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transforming Vòdún written by Sarah Politz and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2023-09-18 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transforming Vòdún examines how musicians from the West African Republic of Benin transform Benin’s cultural traditions, especially the ancestral spiritual practice of vòdún and its musical repertoires, as part of the process of healing postcolonial trauma through music and ritual. Based on fieldwork in Benin, France, and New York City, Sarah Politz uses historical ethnography, music analysis, and participant observation to examine three case studies of brass band and jazz musicians from Benin. The multi-sited nature of this study highlights the importance of mobility, and diasporic connections in musicians’ professional lives, while grounding these connections in the particularities of the African continent, its histories, its people, and its present.

Author : Robert Muir-Wood
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465096476
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cure for Catastrophe written by Robert Muir-Wood and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We can't stop natural disasters but we can stop them being disastrous. One of the world's foremost risk experts tells us how. Year after year, floods wreck people's homes and livelihoods, earthquakes tear communities apart, and tornadoes uproot whole towns. Natural disasters cause destruction and despair. But does it have to be this way? In The Cure for Catastrophe, global risk expert Robert Muir-Wood argues that our natural disasters are in fact human ones: We build in the wrong places and in the wrong way, putting brick buildings in earthquake country, timber ones in fire zones, and coastal cities in the paths of hurricanes. We then blindly trust our flood walls and disaster preparations, and when they fail, catastrophes become even more deadly. No society is immune to the twin dangers of complacency and heedless development. Recognizing how disasters are manufactured gives us the power to act. From the Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 to Hurricane Katrina, The Cure for Catastrophe recounts the ingenious ways in which people have fought back against disaster. Muir-Wood shows the power and promise of new predictive technologies, and envisions a future where information and action come together to end the pain and destruction wrought by natural catastrophes. The decisions we make now can save millions of lives in the future. Buzzing with political plots, newfound technologies, and stories of surprising resilience, The Cure for Catastrophe will revolutionize the way we conceive of catastrophes: though natural disasters are inevitable, the death and destruction are optional. As we brace ourselves for deadlier cataclysms, the cure for catastrophe is in our hands.