When Drummers Were Women

Author : Layne Redmond
Publisher : Echo Point Books & Media, LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book When The Drummers Were Women: A Spiritual History of Rhythm written by Layne Redmond and published by Echo Point Books & Media, LLC. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For millennia, the sacred drummers of pre-Christian Mediterranean and western Asia were women. In this inspiring book, Layne Redmond, herself a renowned drummer, tells their history. Artistic representations reveal that female frame drummers carried the spiritual traditions of many of the earliest recorded civilizations. During those ancient times, the drummer-priestesses held the keys to experience of the divine through rhythm. They were at the center of the goddess worship of matriarchal societies until the ascendance of patriarchal cultures and the loss of drumming as a spiritual technology. With wisdom and passion, Redmond chronicles our species’ deep connection to the drum, our rich heritage of inseparable spirituality and music, and the modern-day women reclaiming it. This book encourages readers—both women and men—to reestablish rhythmic links with themselves, nature, and other people through the power of drumming. Redmond illustrates her message with an extensive collection of images gathered during ten years of research and travel. Woven throughout the book are strands of ancient ritual and mythology, personal stories, and scientific evidence of the benefits of drumming. It is at once a history, a memoir, and a resounding call for spiritual and social renewal.

Author : Layne Redmond
Publisher : Echo Point Books & Media
ISBN 13 : 9781635617887
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When the Drummers Were Women written by Layne Redmond and published by Echo Point Books & Media. This book was released on 2018-12-24 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned drummer Layne Redmond presents a comprehensive, empowering narrative history of women, the sacred drum, and the Divine Feminine, ranging from pre-Christian goddess worship to female drumming and spirituality in the modern era. Complete with a thorough bibliography and lavishly illustrated with over 200 photos & drawings

Author : Layne Redmond
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780609801284
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When the Drummers Were Women written by Layne Redmond and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this long-awaited, lavishly illustrated book, drummer Layne Redmond presents an empowering narrative history of the sacred drum in the ancient Goddess civilization, using her extensive collection of images gathered during more than five years of research and travel in the Mideast and Europe. 80 photos & drawings.

Author : Angela Smith
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810888351
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women Drummers written by Angela Smith and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1942, drummer Viola Smith sent shock waves through the jazz world by claiming in Down Beat magazine that “hep girls” could sit in on any jam session and hold their own. In Women Drummers: A History from Rock and Jazz to Blues and Country, Angela Smith takes Viola at her word, offering a comprehensive look at the world of professional drumming and the women who had the courage and chops to break the barriers of this all-too-male field. Combining archival research with personal interviews of more than fifty female drummers representing more than eight decades in music history, Smith paints a vivid picture of their struggles to overcome discrimination—not only as professional musicians but in other parts of their lives. Women Drummers outlines the evolution of female drumming from pre-biblical times when women held important leadership roles to their silencing by the church during the Middle Ages to spearheading the fight for women’s rights in the modern era. The stories and personal accounts of female drummers who bucked tradition and societal norms are told against the backdrop of the times in which they performed and the genres they represented, from rock and jazz to blues and country. Although women have proven time and time again that they can more than hold their own against their male counterparts, female drummers not only remain a minority, but their contributions have been obscured by the traditional chauvinistic attitudes in the music business and gender stereotypes that surround the drum itself as a “male” instrument. Women Drummers takes a major step forward in undoing this misconception by acknowledging the talent, contribution, and growing power of women drummers in today’s music environment.

Author : Tricia Fields
Publisher : Severn House Publishers Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1448304970
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Drummers written by Tricia Fields and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Police Chief Josie Gray's life is complicated when sparks and bullets begin to fly after her small town in Texas is overrun by a community wishing to live "off grid." The residents of the small town of Artemis are suspicious when a community called The Drummers moves into a local abandoned church. Their leader, Gideon, claims their aim is simple: to live peacefully off the grid without government interference. But when local power substations are sabotaged and the whole of West Texas loses electricity, all fingers point to them. Forced to intervene, Police Chief Josie Gray and her team try to enter the church only for gunshots to be exchanged. Inside the church one young girl is killed, with Gideon claiming Josie's stray bullet hit her. Was Josie responsible? Did one of The Drummers murder the girl and use Josie as a patsy? Were The Drummers responsible for the power outage? As Josie identifies an ever-widening pool of suspects, she learns of a shocking connection reaching far beyond West Texas.

Author : Margarita Engle
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544102290
Total Pages : 51 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drum Dream Girl written by Margarita Engle and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2015 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows a girl in the 1920s as she strives to become a drummer, despite being continually reminded that only boys play the drums, and that there has never been a female drummer in Cuba. Includes note about Millo Castro Zaldarriaga, who inspired the story, and Anacaona, the all-girl dance band she formed with her sisters.

Author : Robert Lawrence Friedman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578760131
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Healing Power of the Drum written by Robert Lawrence Friedman and published by . This book was released on 2020-10 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Healing Power of the Drum psychotherapist and drum facilitator, Robert Lawrence Friedman weaves an extraordinary tapestry of personal experience, fascinating anecdotes, and compelling research, demonstrating the hand drum's capacity to provide significant health benefits for everyone. This breakthrough book examines the use of hand drums in treating at-risk adolescents, stress-out employees, veterans, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Autism and more. Find joy and self-expression in The Healing Power of the Drum.

Author : Steven Ash
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780806926575
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sacred Drumming written by Steven Ash and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2004-08 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a guided tour from a writer who grew up and studied on Native American reservations and join those throughout the world—from Siberia to South America, Australia to Africa—who venerate the drum for its healing and celebratory powers. Through painting, cleansing, blessing, smudging, dedicating, chanting, and performing, you’ll find your own special beat, transforming the drum into a medicinal tool. Become one with a purchased or homemade instrument. Draw on the knowledge of Native American and other cultures to drum away fear, purify, establish a sacred space, and reach into areas of the consciousness that would otherwise be inaccessible. Extra special bonus: a CD with more than an hour’s worth of music for a Sacred Directions ceremony, meditation, trance, and more.

Author : Hiba Masood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780990625971
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drummer Girl written by Hiba Masood and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-29 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Year after year in the blessed month of Ramadan, little Najma has happily arisen to the drum beat of her neighborhood's musaharati. He walks through the streets of her small Turkish village, waking each family for the pre-dawn meal before the long day of fasting. Najma wants nothing more than to be a musaharati herself one day, but no girl has ever taken on the role before. Will she have what it takes to be the drummer girl of her dreams? Find out in this inspirational story of sincerity, determination, and believing in yourself.

Author : Helen Reddington
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754657736
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost Women of Rock Music written by Helen Reddington and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Britain during the late 1970s and early 1980s, a new phenomenon emerged, with female guitarists, bass-players, keyboard-players and drummers playing in bands. This sudden influx of female musicians into the male domain of rock music was brought about partly by the enabling ethic of punk rock ('anybody can do it!') and partly by the impact of the Equal Opportunities Act. But just as suddenly as the phenomenon arrived, the interest in these musicians evaporated and other priorities became important to music audiences. Helen Reddington investigates the social and commercial reasons for how these women became lost from the rock music record.