Sahaja Yoga


Book Description

Shri Mataji writes that “India is a very ancient country and it has been blessed by many seers and saints who wrote treatises about reality and guidelines on how to achieve it.” This is just such a book. This book is both an introduction to Sahaja Yoga, describing the nature of the subtle reality within each of us, and a step-by-step handbook on how to be a good Sahaja Yogi, the nature of Sahaj culture, how to be a leader and how to raise children. “The knowledge of Sahaja Yoga cannot be described in a few sentences or one small book, but one should understand that all this great work of creation and evolution is done by some great subtle organization, which is in the great divine form.”




Choruses of Young Women in Ancient Greece


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In this groundbreaking work, Claude Calame argues that the songs sung by choruses of young girls in ancient Greek poetry are more than literary texts; rather, they functioned as initiatory rituals in Greek cult practices. Using semiotic and anthropologic theory, Calame reconstructs the religious and social institutions surrounding the songs, demonstrating their function in an aesthetic education that permitted the young girls to achieve the stature of womanhood and to be integrated into the adult civic community. This first English edition includes an updated bibliography.




Bollywood Sounds


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Bollywood Sounds focuses on the songs of Indian films in their historical, social, commercial, and cinematic contexts. Author Jayson Beaster-Jones takes readers through the highly collaborative compositional process, highlighting the contributions of film directors, music directors (composers), lyricists, musicians, and singers in song production. Through close musical and multimedia analysis of more than twenty landmark compositions, Bollywood Sounds illustrates how the producers of Indian film songs have long mediated a variety of musical styles, instruments, and performance practices to create a uniquely cosmopolitan music genre. As an exploration of the music of seventy years of Hindi films, Bollywood Sounds provides long-term historical insights into film songs and their musical and cinematic conventions in ways that will appeal both to scholars and to newcomers to Indian cinema.







The Disney Fake Book


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(Fake Book). This fourth edition features even more Disney favorites, including hits from their most recent movie and television releases. 240 songs in all, including: The Bare Necessities * Be Our Guest * Beauty and the Beast * Can You Feel the Love Tonight * Circle of Life * The Climb * Colors of the Wind * Do You Want to Build a Snowman? * A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes * For the First Time in Forever * Go the Distance * Happy Working Song * He's a Pirate * How Do You Know? * I See the Light * Immortals * King of New York * Lava * Let It Go * The Parent Trap * Part of Your World * A Pirate's Life * Reflection * Seize the Day * Some Day My Prince Will Come * True Love's Kiss * Under the Sea * When I See an Elephant Fly * When She Loved Me * When Will My Life Begin? * When You Wish Upon a Star * A Whole New World * Winnie the Pooh * Written in the Stars * You Are the Music in Me * You'll Be in My Heart * Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah * and many more.




Hindi Poetry in a Musical Genre


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Indian classical music has long been fascinating to Western audiences, most prominently since the Beatles' sessions with Ravi Shankar in the 1960s. Du Perron examines Thumi Lyrics, a major genre of Hindustani music, from a primarily linguistic perspective.




Popular Culture, Voice and Linguistic Diversity


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This book analyses the language practices of young adults in Mongolia and Bangladesh in online and offline environments. Focusing on the diverse linguistic and cultural resources these young people draw on in their interactions, the authors draw attention to the creative and innovative nature of their transglossic practices. Situated on the Asian periphery, these young adults roam widely in their use of popular culture, media voices and linguistic resources. This innovative and topical book will appeal to students and scholars of sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, cultural studies and linguistic anthropology.




Play Keyboard with Ease


Book Description

If you want to learn to play the keyboard, you certainly need this book. This book enables you to play songs in a step by step manner using the Scientific Pitch Notation System (C, D, E, F, G, A, B). Through this book, you learn to train your ears by hearing music. Ear training is the soul of musicians that builds a bridge between the language of music and sounds designated by that language. The more we train our ears to recognize this connection, the better we get at playing music as our ability to observe musical structures improve. Play Keyboard with Ease contains step-wise instructions as well as Chords, Notations and Scales of top Bollywood songs.