Among The Jasmine Trees

Author : Jonathan Holt Shannon
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780819567987
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Among the Jasmine Trees written by Jonathan Holt Shannon and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first ethnographic study of music-making in modern Syria

Author : Jonathan Holt Shannon
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780819569851
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Among the Jasmine Trees written by Jonathan Holt Shannon and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does a Middle Eastern community create a modern image through its expression of heritage and authenticity? In Among the Jasmine Trees: Music and Modernity in Contemporary Syria, Jonathan H. Shannon investigates expressions of authenticity in Syria's musical culture, which is particularly known for embracing and preserving the Arab musical tradition, and which has seldom been researched in depth by Western scholars. Music plays a key role in the process of self-imaging by virtue of its ability to convey feeling and emotion, and Shannon explores a variety of performance genres, Sufi rituals, song lyrics, melodic modes, and aesthetic criteria. Shannon shows that although the music may evoke the old, the traditional, and the local, these are re-envisioned as signifiers of the modern national profile. A valuable contribution to the study of music and identity and to the ethnomusicology of the modern Middle East, Among the Jasmine Trees details this music and its reception for the first time, offering an original theoretical framework for understanding contemporary Arab culture, music, and society.

Author : Jonathan Shannon
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781282553743
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Among the Jasmine Trees: Music and Modernity in Contemporary Syria written by Jonathan Shannon and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does a Middle Eastern community create a modern image through its expression of heritage and authenticity? In Among the Jasmine Trees: Music and Modernity in Contemporary Syria, Jonathan H. Shannon investigates expressions of authenticity in Syria's musical culture, which is particularly known for embracing and preserving the Arab musical tradition, and which has seldom been researched in depth by Western scholars. Music plays a key role in the process of self-imaging by virtue of its ability to convey feeling and emotion, and Shannon explores a variety of performance genres, Sufi rituals, song lyrics, melodic modes, and aesthetic criteria. Shannon shows that although the music may evoke the old, the traditional, and the local, these are re-envisioned as signifiers of the modern national profile. A valuable contribution to the study of music and identity and to the ethnomusicology of the modern Middle East, Among the Jasmine Trees details this music and its reception for the first time, offering an original theoretical framework for understanding contemporary Arab culture, music, and society.

Author : Peter Shaw Green
Publisher : Botanical Magazine Monograph
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Genus Jasminum in Cultivation written by Peter Shaw Green and published by Botanical Magazine Monograph. This book was released on 2009 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new publication fromthe Botanical MagazineMonograph series,Hardy Heathers is afully illustratedmonograph thatdescribes all Calluna,Daboecia and thoseErica species that grownaturally in thenorthern hemisphere.Distribution, history,conservation, classification and cultivation arecovered in detail, making this an indispensable bookfor the heather enthusiast, professional nurseryman,landscape architect, gardener, botanist, ecologist andconservationist with interests in heaths and heathlands. The close collaboration between the authorand the renowned botanical artist Christabel Kingmake this book an outstanding contribution to the artof botanical illustration.

Author : Caroline McAlister
Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1570917299
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brave Donatella and the Jasmine Thief written by Caroline McAlister and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The jasmine plant is Duke Cosimo de Medici's most treasured possession. When the gardener Antonio clips a sprig of the forbidden jasmine for his love, he is sent to prison. Now brave Donatella, Antonio's beloved, is his only hope for freedom. Full color.

Author : Maha Khalid
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781496051141
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jasmine Tree written by Maha Khalid and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a time of turmoil and change, two strangers meet in the ancient city of Cairo, an Arabian girl from noble origins and complicated past and a an idealist and daring American journalist. They fall in love while both of them are looking for something lost hoping to find it in the city of eternity. Yet life, is never simple, nor love.... From Cairo to Beirut, and from Dubai to Riyadh in Saudi Arabia, London and back to Dubai, "The Jasmine Tree" will take you in a journey inside the heart of a woman and culture of passion. Through the alleys of ancient cities and the world most adventurous metropolitan "The Jasmine Tree" will bring you to a secret place in your very own heart you will never forget.

Author : Kay Kaufman Shelemay
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226752112
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Let Jasmine Rain Down written by Kay Kaufman Shelemay and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1998-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jews left Aleppo, Syria, in the early twentieth century and established communities abroad, they carried with them a repertory of songs (pizmonim) with sacred Hebrew texts set to melodies borrowed from the popular Middle Eastern Arab musical tradition. Let Jasmine Rain Down tells the story of the pizmonim as they have continued to be composed, performed, and transformed through the present day; it is thus an innovative ethnography of an important Judeo-Arabic musical tradition and a probing contribution to studies of the link between collective memory and popular culture. Shelemay views the intersection of music, individual remembrances, and collective memory through the pizmonim. Reconstructing a century of pizmon history in America based on research in New York, Mexico, and Israel, she explains how verbal and musical memories are embedded in individual songs and how these songs perform both what has been remembered and what otherwise would have been forgotten. In confronting issues of identity and meaning in a postmodern world, Shelemay moves ethnomusicology into the domain of memory studies.

Author : Maha Khalid
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781495491634
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jasmine Tree written by Maha Khalid and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a time of turmoil and change, two strangers meet in the ancient city of Cairo, an Arabian girl from noble origins and complicated past and a an idealist and daring journalist from a different world. They fall in love while both of them are looking for something lost hoping to find it in the city of eternity. Yet life, is never simple, nor love....From Cairo to Beirut, and from Dubai to Riyadh, Houston. Berkeley and London and back to Dubai, "The Jasmine Tree" will take you in a journey inside the heart of a woman and culture of passion. Through the alleys of ancient cities and the world most shrouded metropolitans "The Jasmine Tree" will bring you to a secret place in your very own heart you will never forget.

Author : Bharati Mukherjee
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802136305
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jasmine written by Bharati Mukherjee and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the assassination of her husband, seventeen-year-old Jasmine leaves India to live with a middle-aged banker in a small Iowa town, only to retain some of the traditions and memories of the past.

Author : Debbi Michiko Florence
Publisher : Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 0374304165
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jasmine Toguchi, Drummer Girl written by Debbi Michiko Florence and published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book three in this charming new chapter book series, starring a spunky Japanese-American heroine, Jasmine Toguchi!