"Dried millet breaking," sung by the bard at the end of one episode of this Woi epic of the Kpelle people of Liberia, represents a formula that breaks the flow of events and introduces the epic's complex temporal scaffolding. Examining the singing, narration, dramatic performance, instrumental accompaniment, and timing of the Woi epic, Ruth M. Stone reveals that the Kpelle show time flux through changing timbres, motion, and spatial metaphors in ways fundamentally different from those of much Western art music. In this illuminating study Stone moves beyond typical genre studies of African...
"Dried millet breaking," sung by the bard at the end of one episode of this Woi epic of the Kpelle people of Liberia, represents a formula that bre...
This final volume of the Garland Encyclopedia of World Music includes first person field work case studies from different regions of the world, a general index to the entire ten volume series and all the bibliographies, discographies and videographies from the nine regional volumes. It is an essential reference that students, scholars and teachers will consult regularly.
This final volume of the Garland Encyclopedia of World Music includes first person field work case studies from different regions of the world, a gene...
The premiere volume of the " Garland Encyclopedia of World Music " series offers a comprehensive view of African music as a vital part of the social and cultural life of it peoples. The 34 expert contributors have all conducted fieldwork in Africa and their firsthand experience is reflected in the immediacy of their observations. In 39 articles, this encyclopedia explores key themes in African music that have emerged in recent years - a subject usually neglected in country-by-country coverage; emphasizes the contexts of musical performance-unlike studies that offer static interpretations...
The premiere volume of the " Garland Encyclopedia of World Music " series offers a comprehensive view of African music as a vital part of the social a...
"Ordinary Words" celebrates Ruth Stone s 84th birthday. This brilliant new collection is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Eric Mathieu King Award from the Academy of American Poets. "Ordinary Words" captures a unique vision of Americana marked by Stone s characteristic wit, poignancy, and lyricism. The poet addresses the environment, poverty, and aging with fearless candor and surprising humor. Sister poet to Nobel Prize-winner Wislawa Syzmborska, Ruth Stone offers a view of her country and its citizens that is tender and wacky, filled with hard political...
"Ordinary Words" celebrates Ruth Stone s 84th birthday. This brilliant new collection is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award and t...
Her poems startle us over and over with their shapeliness, their humor, their youthfulness, their wild aptness, their strangeness, their sudden familiarity, the authority of their insights, the moral gulps they prompt, their fierce exactness of language and memory.-Galway Kinnell on presenting the Wallace Stevens Award In the Next Galaxy gives us the unflinching vision of a woman well into her '80s, fully inhabiting body and mind.-National Book Award Judges' statement Compassionate, comic, feminist and horrified by injustice, Stone's poems are composed with an accessible deftness.-The...
Her poems startle us over and over with their shapeliness, their humor, their youthfulness, their wild aptness, their strangeness, their sudden famili...
"A collection of poems that give rich drama to ordinary experience, deepening our sense of what it means to be human."--Pulitzer Prize finalist citation
"There is a broad, powerful streak of independence--even disobedience--that runs through Stone's writing and has inspired a great number of women after her."--Guardian
Finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize, this retrospective of Ruth Stone's poetry combines the best work from twelve previous volumes with an abundance of new poems. This comprehensive selection includes early formal lyrics, fierce political poems, and...
"A collection of poems that give rich drama to ordinary experience, deepening our sense of what it means to be human."--Pulitzer Prize finalist cit...
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