Songs Of The Bamboo

Author : Xuân Lan Nguyen
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625160089
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Songs of the Bamboo written by Xuân Lan Nguyen and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Songs of the Bamboo does not only record Vietnamese historical events but also reproduces folk tales and comic stories. My book is a rehabilitation of the present vicissitudes. Wasn't the 9/11 event a coup of terror and a clash between civilizations? In order to cure it, instead of being at war against each other, I would like to present my civilization of the bamboo, which would imply that we are only different in order to be one, since all of us look for human perfection and life happiness. My presentation of the bamboo civilization might not be complete, since now that I am away from my country, I can only rely on my memory. Bamboo is valued for its intrepidity. It cannot be broken by the most blustering wind. Therefore, the bamboo incarnates the virtue of the "royal man" (quan tu), or the chivalrous man so idealized by the Vietnamese civilization that it can often be called the civilization of the bamboo. Thus, our bamboo sings, followed by the wind as a humming accompaniment. Its songs present a variety of historical events and country folklore, with legends I am trying to reproduce as ricochets on the surface of an unknown pond. Xuan-Lan Nguyen was a professor of English at the Universities of Saigon and Hue in Vietnam. She now teaches English courses at Montgomery College in Maryland. Her earlier three books describe the struggles of the Vietnamese people under communist rule, with mass imprisonment, state confiscation of people's properties by expelling them from their homes, and sending them to live and work in wild forests and on the coastline. Publisher's website: http: //sbpra.com/XuanLanNguyen

Author : Shinki Masaoka
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Songs from a Bamboo Village written by Shinki Masaoka and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : 正岡子規
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Songs from a Bamboo Village written by 正岡子規 and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of experimental Japanese poetry in original Japanese script and precise English translations, this volume also includes reference notes, biographical, historical, linguistic and cultural information on author Shiki Masaoka.

Author : Fay Strawn Campbell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258223359
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bamboo Songs written by Fay Strawn Campbell and published by . This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Yoko Kawashima Watkins
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 006234711X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book So Far from the Bamboo Grove written by Yoko Kawashima Watkins and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the final days of World War II, Koreans were determined to take back control of their country from the Japanese and end the suffering caused by the Japanese occupation. As an eleven-year-old girl living with her Japanese family in northern Korea, Yoko is suddenly fleeing for her life with her mother and older sister, Ko, trying to escape to Japan, a country Yoko hardly knows. Their journey is terrifying—and remarkable. It's a true story of courage and survival that highlights the plight of individual people in wartime. In the midst of suffering, acts of kindness, as exemplified by a family of Koreans who risk their own lives to help Yoko's brother, are inspiring reminders of the strength and resilience of the human spirit.

Author : Zhi Dao
Publisher : DeepLogic
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Chinese Music written by Zhi Dao and published by DeepLogic. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides highlights on the key concepts and trends of evolution in the History of Chinese Music, as one of the series of books of “China Classified Histories”.

Author : José Maceda
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gongs & Bamboo written by José Maceda and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This panorama is a pictorial view of music instruments starting with older bamboo and other instruments of undetermined age, going on two types of gongs-flat in Northern Luzon and bossed in the South. These two areas may be viewed as pocket cultures comparable to other pocket cultures in Borneo, Sumatra, other islands in Southeast Asia and the mountain regions south of and including Yunnan province of China, thus placing the music of Luzon and Mindanao in a larger geographical context. For example, mouth organs in Borneo and continental Southeast Asia are absent in the Philippines, where, however, separate pipes of panpipes are on occasion still being played by groups of boys among the Kalingga of Luzon. The musical elements of drone and melody identified in two lutes in Borneo or ensembles in Yunnan find examples in two players of the same tube zither in Mindanao and flat gongs in Luzon. The nearly 500 photographs in the book are almost all taken in the field, showing details of making and playing bamboo buzzers, jaw harps, zithers, percussion tubes, flutes and other instruments. Manners of tapping and sliding with the hands on flat gongs differ from beating them with sticks. Examples of big bossed gongs with wide rims (agung) struck with a mallet on the boss and a stick on the rim show affinities with a manner of playing bronze drums in Yunnan. In North Luzon, men and women dancing in circles with outstretched hands distinguish them from solo dancers with minimum body movements in the South.

Author : Larry Evers
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816509959
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yaqui Deer Songs, Maso Bwikam written by Larry Evers and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrates the method of the deer song

Author : Raymond Ammann
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643801300
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sounds of Secrets written by Raymond Ammann and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2012 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Double flute, shoulder flute, and large standing slit drums with carved decorations are only a few of the unique musical instruments used in the islands of Vanuatu. In many ways, the people of this South Pacific archipelago live according to their traditional cultures and conduct their rituals and ceremonies as their great-grandfathers had. This book deals comprehensively with traditional musical instruments and their role and function in ceremonies on Vanuatu. Music, dance, and musical instruments are not only means to highlight certain moments in ceremonies, but help to set up an entire network of secrets. The field notes, personal opinions, and ideas that are documented in this book are the result of an intensive study of over 20 years on music in south Melanesia. This is the first reference book on the music of Vanuatu that constitutes an invaluable source for musicologists and anthropologists alike, and it will surprise general readers with its interesting and lively accounts. (Series: SoundCultureStudies / KlangKulturStudien - Vol. 7)

Author : Susanne Lucas
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780232063
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bamboo written by Susanne Lucas and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2024-11-12 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A natural and cultural history of this important and useful plant. We may think of bamboo only as a snack for cuddly panda bears, but we use the plant as food, clothing, paper, fabric, and shelter. Drawing on a vast array of sources, this book builds a complete picture of bamboo in both history and our modern world. Susanne Lucas shows how bamboo has always met the physical and spiritual requirements of humanity while at the same time being exploited by people everywhere. Lucas describes how bamboo’s special characteristics, such as its ability to grow quickly and thus be an easily replaced resource, offers potential solutions to modern ecological dilemmas. She explores the vital role bamboo plays in the survival of many animals and ecosystems, as well as its use for some of the earliest books ever written, as the framework for houses, and for musical instruments. As modern research and technologies advance, she explains, bamboo use has increased dramatically—it can now be found in the filaments of light bulbs, airplanes, the reinforcements of concrete, and even bicycles. Filled with illustrations, Bamboo is an interesting new take on a plant that is both very old and very new.