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Authentic Connection - Music, Spirituality, And Wellbeing

by June Boyce-Tillman e Karin Hendricks

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 This volume focuses on the ways in which mutual musical engagement might play a role in creating healthful, life-giving experiences. Scholarly chapters and reflective interludes illustrate how people use music to forge authentic spiritual and emotional connections with others, including in times of physical isolation and political unrest.
Chain Of Fire - Campaigning In Egypt And The Sudan, 1882-98

by Peter Hart

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 The gripping story of the siege of Khartoum and Britain's extraordinarily bloody 1882 campaign in Egypt and Sudan
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Chain Of Fire - Campaigning In Egypt And The Sudan, 1882-98

by Peter Hart

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 The gripping story of the siege of Khartoum and Britain's extraordinarily bloody 1882 campaign in Egypt and Sudan
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Footsloggers - An Infantry Battalion At War, 1939-45

by Peter Hart

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 The latest volume in Peter Hart's 'British Band of Brothers' series, combining gripping history with vivid eyewitness testimony
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The Return Beat - Interfacing With Our Interface - A Spiritual Approach To The Golden Triangle

by Olugbenga Taiwo

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 This book represents a significant contribution to debates about identity, the arts and spirituality. Written in an autoethnographic style, the author charts his own journey into understanding the interface between himself, culture and digital technology. He charts a course through West African orate and literate traditions and their relationship to the transatlantic trade of enslaved Africans, describing how they became a source of so many dance traditions in Europe and the Americas, such as capoeira, Afro Brazilian and Cuban movement, Hip Hop and Samba. He enters into a detailed analysis of Western linear time and the African curved time; the flux of the Return Beat. He sets out a description of the Yoruba religion of the Orishas; centred around the figure of Olodumare and the concept of Ashe, the animating force of the natural world. As a practitioner of Tai Chi Chuan, he draws comparisons with Chinese spiritual practice and other philosophical traditions, always linking these with the movement of the body both as generative forces and reflective frames. He constructs the framework of the Return Beat, physical journal and mobile studio practice from an understanding of many intercultural, conceptual and performative practices, embodied over his career as a performer.
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Rivers Of Sacred Sound - Chant

by Solveig Mcintosh

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 Rivers of Sacred Sound traces the flow of influences from East to West, from BC to AD and from wordless jubilations to the setting of texts. It takes the discussion about western chant beyond a European perspective. The text of this book, preceded by an introduction, is presented in seven chapters and covers a period of approximately five thousand years. There are many references all over the world to praising the divine with sound. Thus the starting point is the praise song, a fundamental impulse in mankind. The Rg-Veda requests that our loudest-sounding hymn be accepted, as food most delightful to the Gods. The Psalms request us to make a joyful noise unto God and to sing forth the honour of His name. Spontaneous songs became ritual events. In an aural culture what was the role of gesture and what is its role now? There are many doors to open in pursuing these and other questions. This book opens some of them.
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Experiencing Music Restoring The Spiritual - Music As Well-Being

by June Boyce-Tillman

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 This book concerns an examination of the totality of the musical experience with a view to restoring the soul within it. It starts with an analysis of the strands in the landscape of contemporary spirituality. It examines the descriptors spiritual but not religious, and spiritual and religious, looking in particular at the place of faith narratives in various spiritualities. These strands are linked with the domains of the musicking experience: Materials, Expression, Construction and Values. The book sets out a model of the spiritual experience as a negotiated relationship between the musicker and the music. It looks in detail at various models of musicking drawn from music therapy, ethnomusicology, musicology and cultural studies. It examines the relationship between Christianity and music as well as examining some practical projects showing the effect of various Value systems in musicking, particularly in intercultural dialogue. It finally proposes an ecclesiology of musical events that includes both orate and literate traditions and so is supportive of inclusive community.
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A River Rather Than A Road - The Community Choir As Spiritual Experience

by June Boyce-Tillman e Sarah Morgan

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 This book is an auto-ethnographic account of the development of a charismatic community choir leader. It brings together management literature and a survey of the community choir scene with the development of community choir leadership. It provides a useful introduction to the sustaining of community choirs, including the use of English folksong material in this context. Some useful arrangements of folk songs are included. Community singing events are described with helpful advice on setting up and managing these. It presents a useful model of the range of skills necessary for aspiring community choir leaders. This is linked with the formation of a community that contains spiritual elements; this is theorized in relation to the role of the parish church in communal singing. It also discusses the two aesthetics of choral singing and the relationship between oral and literate traditions. The book arises from the engagement of the University of Winchester in partnership with the local community, which is theorized.
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They Bear Acquaintance - African American Spirituals And The Camp Meetings

by Nancy L. Graham

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 Identifying the roots of African American Spirituals and other religious folk music has intrigued academics, hymnologists and song leaders since this genre came to the public eye in 1867. This book examines twentieth-century research, and new material from this century in an attempt to preserve and affirm this musical genre.
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An Exciting And Vivid Inner Life

by Paul Dalla Rosa

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A Rhythm For Wellbeing - A Therapist Reflects

by Jillian Schofield e June Boyce-Tillman

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 This book reflects on a journey as a shamanic healer and a psychotherapist, and how the integration of psychotherapy and traditional healing methods emerged. It explores an initial training in cognitive behavioural psychotherapy, to gestalt therapy, to body therapy, to energy healing and shamanism, to develop a unified theory. It explores the process by means of a dialogue between a psychotherapist, a shamanic healer, an academic and an integrative therapist. This is placed in a dialogue within the therapist herself. Later chapters give examples of the unified theory in practice, including both individual and in group settings. Opening and closing chapters contextualise the work in the context of developments on the internet in the areas of wellbeing and therapeutic practices drawing on different cultures.
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Ten Life Histories - Berlin Prostitutes And The Sexual Question, By Wilhelm Hammer

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 This book is an annotated translation into English of Zehn LebenslÃ¤ufe (Ten Life Histories) by Dr. Wilhelm Hammer, relating to prostitution in the German Empire in the early twentieth century. It sheds valuable light on cultural and social life of the time, including the school system, welfare institute and womenâ€™s role in society.
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Enlivening Faith - Music, Spirituality And Christian Theology

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 The relationship between Christian theology and music has been complex since the early days of the Church. The search for the soul led to an increasing body of literature in on spirituality. This book is an attempt to open up a conversation between these related discourses, with contributions reflecting a range of perspectives within them.
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Ritualised Belonging - Musicing And Spirituality In The South African Context

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 This book interrogates the notion of belonging through musicing rituals in the South African context. The authors raise questions such as "What can we learn from musicing rituals?", "What does it mean to belong through musicing?" and "In what ways could musicing address marginalization and transform a broken society?"
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Heart'S Ease - Spirituality In The Music Of John Tavener

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 The contributors to this book include scholars, musicians, theologians, medical practitioners, informed listeners and practitioners in religious traditions. It includes case study material, empirical studies, philosophical, theological and theoretical contributions along with accounts from lived experience of the spirituality in Tavenerâ€™s music.
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Queering Freedom: Music, Identity And Spirituality - (Anthology With Perspectives From Over Ten Countries)

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 This book is intended to challenge the status quo of music learning and experience by intersecting various musical topics with discussions of spirituality and queer studies. The book reaches an international audience, with invited authors from around the world who represent the voices and perspectives of over ten countries.
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Environment Matters - Why Song Sounds The Way It Does

by Lynn Whidden e Paul Shore

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 Why does human music sound the way it does? To understand this, the authors look at human and animal ability for mimicry, at existing acoustic niches and introduce the idea of at least three habitats for music. Is there a unified sound quality for music created indoors, for song sung outdoors, and for music produced with electric signals?
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Rivers Of Sacred Sound - Chant

by Solveig Mcintosh

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 The text of this book, preceded by an introduction, is presented in seven chapters and covers a period of approximately five thousand years. In an aural culture what was the role of gesture and what is its role now? There are many doors to open in pursuing these and other questions. This book opens some of them.
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Freedom Song: Faith, Abuse, Music And Spirituality - A Lived Experience Of Celebration

by June Boyce-Tillman

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 This book is an autobiographical account of the development of an authentic interiority, based thematically around the Lordâ€™s Prayer. It charts the way in which the Christian faith in which the author was enculturated, was refined by her lived experience of music, abuse, forgiveness, interfaith dialogue, gender and vocation.
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The Return Beat - Interfacing With Our Interface - A Spiritual Approach To The Golden Triangle

by Olugbenga Taiwo

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Ritualised Belonging - Musicing And Spirituality In The South African Context

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 This book interrogates the notion of belonging through musicing rituals in the South African context. The authors raise questions such as «What can we learn from musicing rituals?», «What does it mean to belong through musicing?» and «In what ways could musicing address marginalization and transform a broken society?» To answer these questions, the editors employ a range of perspectives from micro-sociological theory to personal accounts of marginalization and belonging through musicing. The contributors employ both established and novel qualitative strategies of inquiry including case studies, narrative inquiry, performative autoethnography, practice as research, and interpretive phenomenological analysis, amongst others. Although this book focuses on musicing in the South African context, international readers will also benefit from the rich theoretical and methodological contributions in this volume. It investigates the potentiality of cultivating a sense of belonging through musicing rituals to heal a mutilated world. The contributions will inform and enhance readers repertoire of musicing strategies in both community and educational contexts. This work is based on the research supported in part by the National Research Foundation of South Africa (Grant Numbers: 118579). The Grantholder, Prof Liesl van der Merwe,acknowledges that opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed inRitualisedBelonging,generated by the NRF supported research (Grant Numbers: 118579), is that of the authors, and that the NRF accepts no liability whatsoever in this regard.
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Living Song - Singing, Spirituality, And Wellbeing

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 This volume consists of various approaches to the spirituality of the singing experience, and how these have changed or even been heightened during the current pandemic. It offers a number of very wide-ranging perspectives from across the world. The chapters are drawn from several cultures and include a number referring to the various lockdowns.
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The Museum Of Other People - From Colonial Acquisitions To Cosmopolitan Exhibitions

by Adam Kuper

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 A contemplation of the hotly-debated significance - and future - of anthropology museums, from a global expert
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Airs, Species, Commons - A Manifesto For The Air

by Daisy Lafarge

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