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For the Sake of a Song

Wangga Songmen and Their Repertories

By: Allan Marett,Linda Barwick,Lysbeth Ford

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For the Sake of a Song

Wangga Songmen and Their Repertories

By: Allan Marett,Linda Barwick,Lysbeth Ford

Wangga, originating in the Daly region of Australia's Top End, is one of the most prominent Indigenous genres of public dance-songs. This book focuses on the songmen who created and performed the song

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For the Sake of a Song

Wangga Songmen and Their Repertories

By: Marett, Allan,Barwick, Linda,Ford, Lysbeth

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Wangga Songmen and Their Repertories

By: Marett, Allan,Barwick, Linda,Ford, Lysbeth

Wangga, originating in the Daly region of Australia’s Top End, is one of the most prominent Indigenous genres of public dance-songs. This book is organised around six repertories: four from the Belyuen-based songmen Barrtjap, Muluk, Mandji and Lambudju, and two from the Wadeye-based Walakandha and Ma-yawa wangga groups, the repertories being named after the ancestral song-giving ghosts of the Marri Tjavin and Marri Ammu people respectively. Framing chapters include discussion of the genre’s social history, musical conventions and the five highly endangered languages in which the songs are composed. The core of the book is a compendium of recordings, transcriptions, translations and explanations of over 150 song items. Thanks to permissions from the composers’ families and a variety of archives and recordists, this corpus includes almost every wangga song ever recorded in the Daly region.

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Sydney University Press

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1920899758

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9781920899752

Joseph Conrad and the Ethics of Darwinism (Routledge Revivals)

The Challenges of Science

By: Allan Hunter

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Joseph Conrad and the Ethics of Darwinism (Routledge Revivals)

The Challenges of Science

By: Allan Hunter

First published in 1983, this book explores a number of avenues of critical thinking about Joseph Conrad, showing him as an author deeply concerned with humankind’s ethical motivation and its relationship with the ideas of evolution current in his day. Allan Hunter establishes Conrad’s detailed knowledge of the leading evolutionary arguments of the period and the main questions posed: were ethics God-given or were morals merely an evolved attribute? His novels are shown as debates with, and extensions of, the theories of Huxley, Darwin, Carlyle, Spencer, Lombroso and others on the nature of humanity and altruism.

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237

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Routledge

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131763795X

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9781317637950

The College on the Hill

A New History of the Ontario Agricultural College, 1874-1999

By: Alexander M. Ross,Terry Crowley,Terence Allan Crowley

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The College on the Hill

A New History of the Ontario Agricultural College, 1874-1999

By: Alexander M. Ross,Terry Crowley,Terence Allan Crowley

How has the Ontario Agricultural College contributed to Canadian education? What role has the college played in the development of agriculture since it was founded in 1874? This history of Canada's oldest agricultural college revolves around these two questions. It shows that the college's mandate has changed in its attempt to serve both education and agriculture. The Ontario Agricultural College was established to enshrine science in farming, but it also became the testing and extension arm of the provincial ministry of agriculture. Direct government control for ninety years provided financial resources not enjoyed by other post-secondary schools, but the results sometimes proved of greater benefit to agriculture than to education or science. Swept into the University of Guelph when it was created in 1964, the college rethought its role. It emerged as a centre for advanced scientific inquiry, for global agricultural programs, and for understanding rural societies. The controversies surrounding these changes and the evolving nature of agriculture and science are brought out fully in this account of the past century and a quarter.

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Dundurn

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1550023209

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9781550023206

Songs, Dreamings, and Ghosts

The Wangga of North Australia

By: Allan Marett

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Songs, Dreamings, and Ghosts

The Wangga of North Australia

By: Allan Marett

A mesmerizing journey into the musical world of Australia's Aboriginal people. Winner of the Stanner Award from the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Studies (2006) Aboriginal musicians receive songs both from an eternal realm known as The Dreaming and from the ghosts of deceased ancestors. Songs, Dreamings, and Ghosts is the first book-length study of wangga, a musical and ceremonial genre of Aboriginal people of the Daly Region of Northern Australia. This work is a labor of love, the culmination of nearly 20 years of field work and research by renowned ethnomusicologist Allan Marett, and represents the only comprehensive documentation of a single major genre of Aboriginal music. With first-hand, in-depth knowledge of Northwest Australia's Aboriginal cultures, Marett provides the reader with a penetrating description and analysis of this compelling musical practice. This book makes a significant contribution to knowledge of Aboriginal studies, and provides a rare glimpse into relatively unknown traditions and cultures. It includes illustrations, musical examples, and links to a web-based virtual CD loaded with samples of this fascinating music, closely linked to the text, at http://www.wesleyan.edu/wespress/wanggacd/.

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Wesleyan University Press

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0819569348

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9780819569349

For the Sake of a Song

Wangga Songmen and Their Repertories

By: Allan Marett,Linda Barwick,Lysbeth Ford

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Intercultural Japanese Noh Theatre

Texts and Analyses of English-language Noh

By: Ashley Thorpe,Allan Marett,Greg Giovanni,Jannette Cheong,Deborah Brevoort,Carrie J. Preston

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Intercultural Japanese Noh Theatre

Texts and Analyses of English-language Noh

By: Ashley Thorpe,Allan Marett,Greg Giovanni,Jannette Cheong,Deborah Brevoort,Carrie J. Preston

Discover Japanese culture and one of the world's oldest performance artforms in an exhilarating new way: through English-language noh theatre. Intercultural Japanese Noh Theatre: Texts and Analyses of English-language Noh provides a unique perspective on intercultural engagement with Japanese noh, a classical dance-drama that has been performed since the 14th century. Unlike many projects approaching noh from the 'outside in,' this volume dives 'inside out,' tapping into the expertise of both professional Japanese noh performers and dedicated non-indigenous practitioners. Through selected play texts and insightful essays, this collection introduces a new realm of noh to global readers, academics, and theatre enthusiasts interested in Japanese culture. The opening chapters, guided by Akira Matsui, a master actor of the Kita school of noh, offer a contemporary view from within the professional noh world: the subsequent seven playtexts, chosen for their representation of shifts in practice and global resonance, are introduced by the writers, providing insights into their creative motivations. Following each play, experts analyse its performance aspects, from movement and music to costume and language, exploring the implications of integrating Japanese noh professionals with international amateurs. This volume not only contextualizes the chosen noh texts but also serves as a window into a dynamic form of intercultural engagement with noh theatre. By blending tradition with global perspectives, it illuminates the multifaceted nature of noh in a globalized context. For those interested in the longevity of performance art and new intercultural approaches, this book offers a comprehensive exploration of English-language noh and its rich complexity on the global stage.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350473154

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9781350473157

Book's by Allan Marett

For the Sake of a Song

For the Sake of a Song

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For the Sake of a Song

Joseph Conrad and the Ethics of Darwinism (Routledge Revivals)

Joseph Conrad and the Ethics of Darwinism (Routledge Revivals)

The College on the Hill

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Songs, Dreamings, and Ghosts

Songs, Dreamings, and Ghosts

For the Sake of a Song

For the Sake of a Song

Intercultural Japanese Noh Theatre

Intercultural Japanese Noh Theatre

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