Singing to the Lions
Author : Jonathan Brakarsh
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 27,99 MB
Release : 2016-10-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781614921639
Author : Jonathan Brakarsh
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 27,99 MB
Release : 2016-10-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781614921639
Author : Banning Eyre
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,44 MB
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0822375427
Like Fela Kuti and Bob Marley, singer, composer, and bandleader Thomas Mapfumo and his music came to represent his native country's anticolonial struggle and cultural identity. Mapfumo was born in 1945 in what was then the British colony of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). The trajectory of his career—from early performances of rock 'n' roll tunes to later creating a new genre based on traditional Zimbabwean music, including the sacred mbira, and African and Western pop—is a metaphor for Zimbabwe's evolution from colony to independent nation. Lion Songs is an authoritative biography of Mapfumo that narrates the life and career of this creative, complex, and iconic figure. Banning Eyre ties the arc of Mapfumo's career to the history of Zimbabwe. The genre Mapfumo created in the 1970s called chimurenga, or "struggle" music, challenged the Rhodesian government—which banned his music and jailed him—and became important to Zimbabwe achieving independence in 1980. In the 1980s and 1990s Mapfumo's international profile grew along with his opposition to Robert Mugabe's dictatorship. Mugabe had been a hero of the revolution, but Mapfumo’s criticism of his regime led authorities and loyalists to turn on the singer with threats and intimidation. Beginning in 2000, Mapfumo and key band and family members left Zimbabwe. Many of them, including Mapfumo, now reside in Eugene, Oregon. A labor of love, Lion Songs is the product of a twenty-five-year friendship and professional relationship between Eyre and Mapfumo that demonstrates Mapfumo's musical and political importance to his nation, its freedom struggle, and its culture.
Author : Ellie Holcomb
Publisher : B&H Kids
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 15,29 MB
Release : 2018-10-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1462794459
Have you ever wondered who hummed the first tune? Was it the flowers? The waves or the moon? Dove Award-winning recording artist Ellie Holcomb answers with a lovely lyrical tale, one that reveals that God our Maker sang the first song, and He created us all with a song to sing. Go to bhkids.com to find this book's Parent Connection, an easy tool to help moms and dads (or anyone else who loves kids) discuss the book's message with their child. We're all about connecting parents and kids to each other and to God's Word.
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 21,33 MB
Release : 2007-04-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1599900297
Ruby's loud voice annoys everyone around her, until she learns to control her volume with the help of her new jazz musician friends.
Author : Bhajneet Singh
Publisher :
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 44,77 MB
Release : 2018-10-30
Category :
ISBN : 9781732798106
Ajeet Singh is surrounded by a group of kids who won't share toys or play with him. They bully, tease him and bring him down! His mom advises him to seek out the kids with different qualities, those who are happy and kind like the type of kid he wants to be. Ajeet learns that true friends bring out the best in each other. Gurbani can inspire and guide even the littlest lions. Its timeless universal message can help Sikh kids powerfully deal with bullying or any adversity in their life. This book hopes to inspire kids to live in eternal optimism and find the sangat that leads them to becoming the best versions of themselves!
Author : Karthika Nair
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 20,56 MB
Release : 2017-08-16
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9352772830
In Until the Lions, Karthika Nair retells the Mahabharata through multiple voices. Her poems capture the epic through the lenses of nameless soldiers, outcast warriors and handmaidens but also abducted princesses, tribal queens and a gender-shifting god. As peripheral figures and silent catalysts take centre stage, we get a glimpse of lives and stories buried beneath the edifices of god and nation, heroes and victory; a glimpse of the price paid for myth and history--all too often interchangeable.
Author : Robie H. Harris
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,71 MB
Release : 2013
Category : FICTION
ISBN : 9780545112833
Loud, scary noises frighten a child until quiet and calmness return.
Author : Fiona Tierney
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,58 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Animals
ISBN : 9780545176910
When Lion comes upon Sarah walking in the jungle, he threatens to eat her unless she shows that she can do something none of the other animals can do.
Author : Sonia Sanchez
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 39,44 MB
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0807069523
From the American Poetry Society's 2018 Wallace Stevens Award–winner, this is an epic poem on kin estranged, the death of a brother from AIDS, and the possibility of reconciliation and love in the face of loss.
Author : Tom Tinn-Disbury
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 31,56 MB
Release : 2022
Category : Dance
ISBN : 1684464412
Brian the lion loves to dance, but since lions are supposed to be fierce he hides his talent from his lion friends--until they explain that they also have talents that are not particularly fierce.