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...en a month ago that Sung Ki had left him. Sung Ki: even now the name sounded musical. After the video pang girl's attempt at marital entrapment, this... ...wife and children unbearable, and even his hobby of playing a cello was as a musical dilettante. He looked out of the window and smoothed out his hair... ...crawl like worms, pushing their carts and singing their songs as traditional music blared forth. He died every time he saw one of them. He yearned for... ...g what he thought their lives might be like; and from there, feeling and the musical notes encroached from distant spaces within his imagination. Ther... ...no higher significance. He got a vision in his mind. It was a feeling with musical notes. He got his underwear and his book bag from the locker and ... ...ned to tapping that seemed more like rain. Her thoughts rambled on: "800,000 African children die from dysentery each year and yet the news is about t... ...nd. It was very exciting-more than even a racket ball game with Betty whose African American skin, muscular physique, and strong competitive strife g... ... lap and you guys could make any political cartoon on him you pleased." The Africans once said that the military cost of their civil wars were the re... ...and create form by means of color, bang sticks and rattles rhythmically like African Pygmies, lace and tie shoes neatly, say their ABCs and the sounds...

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...Oh shit. Oh, hell no. This isn't happening. "We've got one victim down ... African-American male, early twenties ... wounds to the chest and abdomen..... ...truck him as out of place in a Dagny or Tyler-influenced household was the musical collection. There were rows and rows of tapes and CDs outlining a r... ...re rows and rows of tapes and CDs outlining a rather soulful, R&B taste in music. Earth, Wind and Fire CDs abounded. Vintage Marvin Gaye and the Isley... ...ys II Men, New Edition, Tevin Campbell—and any other young protégés of pop music's big three: Babyface, Puff Daddy and Teddy Riley. There was even an ... ... Puff Daddy and Teddy Riley. There was even an extensive collection of rap music: L.L. Cool J and Heavy D being the most prominent. Nothing resembling... ...being the most prominent. Nothing resembling Wu Tang Clan, NWA or Ice Cube music extolling the virtues of racism, cop-killing or defiance of the law a... ...ed the farmhouse, turned to Kelly. "And you? What's your background?" "I'm African-American. My family's originally from the south. Georgia, to be spe... ... a brow as she stood and put a hand on a hip. "Hmm. I believe I do see the African-American background you were telling me about." "Cut the dallying. ...

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...ed to hunger with the wistful gaze of the poor youth, mostly Hispanic and African American, who stared enviously at products behind shop windows. Her... ...ting one in its thick textured darkness, or fears that a live and growing African Spider Monkey could be swinging from her uterus, ready to come out ... ...actly the same as the guitar recital we saw last night, but it is the same musician and similar material--at least I gather that from what it says on... ... in place of other libations. My idea is that with these dinner and light music sessions the nuns will eventually become less feral-- less likely to ... ...ady here. She is upstairs. I just thought that you wanted to preview the music before we do anything else." "Well, you thought wrong. Anyhow, ... ...tric Christmas candles glowing in the window pane, the sound of Christmas music which she had equated with an ethereal love of mankind that never rea...

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...rs, like 28 Melmoth Reconciled stage action for an actress. “Where is the music?” asked Castanier. “What next? Only think of your hearing music now!”... ...ed Castanier. “What next? Only think of your hearing music now!” “Heavenly music!” he went on. “The sounds seem to come from above.” “What? You have a... ...lways refused to give me a box at the Italiens because you could not abide music, and are you turn- ing music-mad at this time of day? Mad—that you ar... ...and are you turn- ing music-mad at this time of day? Mad—that you are! The music is inside your own noddle, old addle-pate!” she went on, as she took ... ...e wheels that sings in your ears?” “Just listen, Naqui! If the angels make music for God Al- mighty, it must be such music as this that I am drinking ... ... over the fertile plains of India, could soar on the wings of demons above African desert spaces, or skim the surface of the seas. The same insight th...

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...roposed mar- riage, and an elopement. His voice is as clear as a bell or a musical glass—very like a musical glass indeed—but of course I didn’t liste... ...n old one; a third line was devoted to the re-engagement of the unrivalled African Knife-swallower, who had kindly suffered himself to be prevailed up... ...d preside, while the honours of the vice-chair would be sus- tained by the African Swallower. The room being by this time very warm and somewhat crowd... ...l; more’s the pity.’ Mr Snittle Timberry now appeared, arm-in-arm with the African Swallower, and, being introduced to Nicholas, raised his hat half a... ...ief, who is bleeding to death and too faint to move, except to the softest music (and then only upon his hands and knees), shall be seen to approach a... ... on the left hand of Nicholas, to whom he was introduced by his friend the African Swallower, from the bottom of the table, with a high eulogium upon ... ...ts of the six new pieces which he had written by contract to introduce the African Knife-swallower in his various unrivalled performances. This speedi... ...ese solemnities having been suc- ceeded by a decent interval, enlivened by musical and other entertainments, Mr Crummles proposed that ornament of the... ...led round some itinerant juggler, opposed, in his turn, by a noisy band of music, or the classic game of ‘Ring the Bull,’ while ven- triloquists holdi...

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...ave been ever since, while he has been these three years and a half on the African station.” “What, is he in the navy?” “Yes,” said the boy proudly, “... ...at could be. Mr. Ernescliffe manages him very well—used to illness on that African coast, and the doctor is very fond of him. As to Miss May, one can’... ...orman wearily. “I promised to go and read to Margaret while Flora does her music,” said Ethel; “I shall come after that and do my Latin and Greek with... ...e evening,” she said, “and I could draw here, if I wished, but I have some music to copy.” Margaret was concerned at the dissatisfaction, though not u... ...b book, and imparting the cream to the listeners; and Flora gave them some music, a great treat to Margaret, who had long only heard its distant sound... ...ly some notes to compare, and while he did so, he was remarking on Flora’s music, and joining in the conversation so freely as to prove it was no labo... ...her hearty appreciation made Mr. Rivers for the time forget her plainness. Music followed; Flora played nicely, Meta like a well-taught girl; Ethel we...

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...mixed — blood: Jewish blood, Spanish blood, Native American blood, and even African blood. Also, don't you find it ironic that the word Asian is mix... ...re the minorities, we've been emblematically segregated as Asian Americans, African Americans, and even Jewish Americans, but the strange thing is t... ...anese like you. I really don't have a ” problem with Ebonics, the idiomatic African American slang of our generation. I just wish that words such as... ...lter ego of the affluent Palo Alto, since it consists mostly of Latinos and African Americans and not its rich, snobby counterpart. It's truly amazi... ... or any instrument for that matter not for the love and — — appreciation of music, but just as a way to get ahead since it looks good on your resume.... ...ying the piano, from classical to contemporary, for the pure inspiration of music. I resent my parents butchering this with their lust for a good-pay... ...on't have any “ plans. What about you? Emilie asks, her lack of plans being music to my ears. ” None at all. What do you feel like eating? “ ” Being ... ...s. I see a Spanish couple to my right, an Asian couple across from us and an African American couple behind them. We're in a room full of minorities....

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..., Mr. Connolly,” she whispered, but the words were lost in the silk and the music and the applause. ***** Rupert Gable, Legendary Lord of Leg... ...five years later Daniel Connolly smiled behind the cover of his sheet music. His wife Helene was on the verge of a small tantrum, her third o... ...e of any help, darlin’?” he asked. “I don’t want to disturb you from your music,” she replied with an edge of petulance in her voice. “It’s all... ...Halverson’s new minstrel show which folded two nights after opening, of the musical pantomime Schwann had in rehearsal lampooning Boss Tweed and Tam... ...ss as he’d been, though his stoic reserve never faltered. His proud mix of African and Cherokee blood would not allow it. Helene had been the one ... .... He raised his chin and turned his hawk-like profile. “I am Cherokee and African. It’s in my blood.” “Ah, well, if it is a blood-carried diseas... ...l wrong, and her accent was terrible. But, God, he had never heard sweeter music in his life. Ignoring the stitch in his side, he rose and followed...

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...ion of God arises within some groups (e.g., Jews, Muslims, Hindus, various African tribes, some varieties of American Indian culture), while other gro... ...l impact consequently differs greatly. The same is to be said even more of music. The score of a particular musical piece indicates the notes to be pl... ... be played and to some degree the timing of each note, but each individual musician is required to input a personal interpretation simply because the ... ...actly how it is to be played. Since we have come to associate emotion with music more than drama, by and large, we need to take this musical analogy q... ...he broad outline of the life that is to be lived already exists, just as a musical score for a violin sonata already exists when the musician takes up... ... perform the sonata. However, just as the individual interpretation of the music by the violinist determines whether what results evokes the emotions ...

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...is art rises to its most consummate triumphs in Venus and Madonna, and his music is saturated in love suggestions. Not only is this so with the right ... ...ining I mean the differentiation of sounds—articu- late, inarticulate, and musical—fixing the child’s attention and causing it to imitate. As every so... ...des of expression need not begin till after five, or later. With regard to music, every child should begin to undergo a simple course of ear-training ... ...lve or fourteen. But, beginning early—as early as pos- sible—every child, ‘musical’ or not, can be trained, just as every child, ‘artistic’ or not, ma... ...schools, is English adequately taught. And these people ex- pect the South African Dutch to take over their neglected tongue! As though the poor parti... ...go to a Board School, and very probably after- wards to evening classes—or music-halls. Here again is a new type of home, in which the English of 1920...

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...00 volumes, its classes for the study of the foreign languages, elocution, music; its opportunities of discussion and debate, of healthful bodily exer... ... of a Herschel or a Faraday? It is with all these things as with the great music of Mendelssohn, or a lecture upon art—if we had the good fortune to l... ...On the above date Mr. Dickens gave a reading of his Christmas Carol in the Music Hall, before the members and subscribers of the Philosophical Institu... ...y no difference. The painters’ art has four or five such institutions. The musicians’ art, so generously and charmingly represented here, has likewise... ...ficiated as Chairman at the annual dinner of the Dramatic, Equestrian, and Musical Fund, at Willis’s Rooms, where he made the following speech: Ladies... ...peech— not to say brazen—from whomsoever it exalts to my high office. Some African tribes—not to draw the comparison disrespectfully—some savage Afric...

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...f the old fore court,’ where the young people danced and made merry to the music of the village band. Or perhaps, in the depth of winter, the father w... ... day; and attained to such pro- ficiency that her collaboration in chamber music was courted by professionals. And more than twenty years later, the o... ...at is still more strange, he had been up to then invincibly indifferent to music, insomuch that he could not distinguish 28 Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin... ... Here at the opera he discovered besides a taste for a new art, the art of music; and it was, he wrote, ‘as if he had found out a heaven on earth.’ ‘I... ...lt; and already the one wire, supposed previously to be quite bad near the African coast, can be spoken through. I am very glad I am here, for my mach... ... the refreshments chosen, the list of guests drawn up, by Joseph; the best music of the place in attendance; and hosts and guests in their best clothe...

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...t from the Opera band reside within its precincts. Its boarding-houses are musical, and the notes of pianos and harps float in the evening time round ... ... casements, and smoking fearfully. Sounds of gruff voices practising vocal music invade the evening’s silence; and the fumes of choice tobacco scent t... ...arge room were eyeing, by turns, the empty platform, and the ladies in the Music Gallery . In these amusements the greater portion of them had been oc... ...ts pure affections. Her glee- some voice and merry laugh were the sweetest music of their home. She was its very light and life. The brightest flowers... ...n old one; a third line was devoted to the re-engagement of the unrivalled African Knife-swallower, who had kindly suffered himself to be prevailed up... ...s preside, while the honours of the vice-chair would be sus- tained by the African Swallower. The room being by this time very warm and somewhat crowd... ...l; more’s the pity.’ Mr Snittle Timberry now appeared, arm-in-arm with the African Swallower, and, being introduced to Nicholas, raised his hat half a... ... on the left hand of Nicholas, to whom he was introduced by his friend the African Swallower, from the bottom of the table, with a high eulogium upon ... ...ts of the six new pieces which he had written by contract to introduce the African Knife-swallower in his various unrivalled performances. This speedi...

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...ving, village landscapes, different languages and dialects, different folk music, the whole diversity of local cultures that has existed on Earth. The... ...ther here in the village. In the evenings, we used to walk along the road, musicians used to play old folk instruments and the others follow them, dan... ... used to collect money for the temple or celebrate for other reasons. Play music, sing and dance it was great fun. Today, you don't see such things an... ...ar completely, but people don't like them today, like they don't like Thai music. Today, they listen to disco music and it annoys me. Foreign, Western... ...urton (eds.) 1991. Thai Constructions of Knowledge. School of Oriental and African Studies. University of London. Chongrak, Ruthai Cai 1977. Old Th... ... (1978). Natural Symbols in South East Asia. London School of Oriental and African Studies. Mizuno, Koichi 1968. Multi-household Compounds in Northea... ...t (ed.), Nature and Man in South East Asia, 68–106. School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. — 1982. The Social and Economic Cor... ....) 1991. Thai Constructions of Knowledge, 183–212. School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Tanabe, Shigeharu – Charles F. Keye... ...atural Symbols in South East Asia, 113–132. London School of Oriental and African Studies. — 1984. Limits of Ideological Domination and the Formatio...

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...isis; about Wayne Gretzky being traded to the Los Angeles Kings; and about music. Lacey 52 SUSAN BRACKEN was enthralled by her first intimate convers... ...nto his embrace and followed him slowly around the room, mesmerized by the music, the twinkling lights of the city, and the nearness of Jake’s body. S... ...love of nature, and their wonderful house; the world of books; evenings of music and theatre in Toronto and Barrie; their chil- dren. Jake bought a ca... ...t Tony Blair would do in retirement, whether Americans would ever elect an African-American president, and on and on, with- out a single reference to ... ... his hands on a kitchen towel, Scott asked, “Do you feel like listening to music?” “Sure. Let’s see, it’s Friday, so my station should have the croone... ...s voice flooded the room. “Is this okay with you?” “Yes. I like almost all music.” They moved back into the living room and stood by the window, looki...

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...The Souls of Black Folk is a well-known work of African-American literature by activist W.E.B. Du Bois. The book, published in 1903, contains several essays on race, some of which had been previously published in Atlantic Monthly magazine. Du Bois drew from his own experie...

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...iful Armida-Palace, where the inmates live enchanted lives; lapped in soft music of adulation; waited on by the splendours of the world;—which neverth... ...ike the outward ones, but forever growing and changing. Does not the Black African take of Sticks and Old Clothes (say, exported Monmouth-Street cast-... ...n black domino, like a black night-bird, and disturb the fair Antoinette’s music-party in the Park: all Birds of Paradise flying from thee, and musica... ...ndignation, which makes, if not verses, satirical law-papers, the withered Music-master, with a desperate heroism, takes up his lost cause in spite of... ...ever, heard from such distance, are little other than a cheerful marching- music. If indeed that dark living chaos of Ignorance and Hun- ger, five-and... ...of working and slumbering; and now, for the second time, most European and African mortals are asleep. But here, in this Whirlpool of Words, sleep fal... ... gods witness, ye are hardly entreated. Oh, if in National Palaver (as the Africans name it), such blessedness is verily found, what tyrant would deny... ...g in long horrid death-throes, it is Black without remedy; and remains, as African Haiti, a monition to the world. O my Parisian Friends, is not this,... ...nals: or is there, that thou wottest of, one shabbier? Mumbo- Jumbo of the African woods to me seems venerable beside this new Deity of Robespierre; f...

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...ore, French behind, French to the backbone. Back then, curs! strike up the music; silence, bigots! advance my merry wags, my little pages, put your so... ...with a hundred glorious Droll T ales. Stand back then, curs; strike up the music! Silence, bigots; out of the way, dunces! step forward my merry wags!... ...n a corner, to make himself big, to make himself little, to agree, to play music, to drudge, to go to the devil wherever he may be, to count the gray ... ...l inhabitants of the quarter were all there, who as a great honour, played music to him, and cried to him, “You will always be a noble man in spite of... ...sluice-gates were opened. It was a sermon in three heads, accompanied with music of a high gamut, varied in tones, with many sharps among the keys. “O... ..., Jerusalem, the lands 89 Droll Stories- V ol. Three of Soudan, and other African places. Certain men of vast minds conducted his affairs, bringing t...

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...ve her morning’s work undone. Morning work! By the blushes of Aurora and the music of Memnon, what should be man’s morning work in this world? I had t... ...me good, I should run for my life, as from that dry and parching wind of the African deserts called the simoom, which fills the mouth and nose and ears... ...untains, bearing the broken strains, or celestial parts only, of terrestrial music. The morning wind forever blows, the poem of creation is uninterrup... ...rce and aspirations from within, accompanied by the undulations of celestial music, instead of factory bells, and a fragrance filling the air — to a hi... ...ll poets and heroes, like Memnon, are the children of Aurora, and emit their music at sunrise. To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace wi... ...tertainments. If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets. When we are unhurried a... ...in the retreat from Concord, — where he is styled “Sippio Brister,” — Scipio Africanus he had some title to be called, — “a man of color,” as if he we...

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...iful Armida-Palace, where the inmates live enchanted lives; lapped in soft music of adulation; waited on by the splendours of the world;—which neverth... ...e the outward ones, but forever growing and chang- ing. Does not the Black African take of Sticks and Old Clothes (say, exported Monmouth-Street cast-... ...n black domino, like a black night-bird, and disturb the fair Antoinette’s music-party in the Park: all Birds of Paradise flying from thee, and musica... ...ignation, which makes, if not verses, satirical law-papers, the with- ered Music-master, with a desperate heroism, takes up his lost cause in spite of... ...ver, heard from such distance, are little other than a cheer- ful marching-music. If indeed that dark living chaos of Ignorance and Hunger, five-and-t... ... as in rapt commerce; an Antique Egyptian Hierophant in this new age. Soft music flits; breaking fitfully the sacred stillness. Round their Magnetic M... ... the second time, most Euro- 92 The French Revolution: V ol. One pean and African mortals are asleep. But here, in this Whirl- pool of Words, sleep f...

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... of the globe?” This suggestion of the possible ultimate redemption of the African race and African continent was made twenty- five years ago. Every s... ...g slavery to go into our own free territory than it would for reviving the African slave trade by law. The law which forbids the bringing of slaves fr... ...is some truth in this, and I am glad of it; but it is not wholly true. The African slave trade is not yet effectually suppressed; and, if we make a re... ...0 you (the South) joined the North, almost unanimously, in de- claring the African slave trade piracy, and in annexing to it the punishment of death. ... ...ves from the States to Nebraska does not make slaves of free- men; but the African slave-trader can say just as much. He does not catch free negroes a... ...us continue to obey the Constitution and the laws; let us keep step to the music of the Union. Let us draw a cordon, so to speak, around the slave Sta...

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...have seen it.’ ‘Well! One day when we took Pet to church there to hear the music—because, as practical people, it is the business of our lives to show... ...ed, and never took to that luxury any more. He had been a very indifferent musical amateur in his better days; and when he fell with his brother, reso... ...yes, yes, yes. It’s my leg, it’s my leg. But it pleases me to hear the old music, though I am very bad.’ ‘Y ou are a traveller! Stay! See, the water! ... ...d if Mr Clennam was one of our visitors, and we were dancing to delightful music, and were all as gay and light-hearted as ever we could be! I wonder—... ...oke coarsely, but with no naturally coarse voice; there was even something musical in its sound. ‘What are you doing with your- self?’ retorted Maggy,... ...ock up, lock up; but remember that you are, in the words of the fet- tered African, a man and a brother ever. The list of toasts disposed of, Mr Dorri...

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...have seen it.’ ‘Well! One day when we took Pet to church there to hear the music—because, as practical people, it is the business of our lives to show... ...ed, and never took to that luxury any more. He had been a very indifferent musical amateur in his better days; and when he fell with his brother, reso... ...yes, yes, yes. It’s my leg, it’s my leg. But it pleases me to hear the old music, though I am very bad.’ ‘Y ou are a traveller! Stay! See, the water! ... ...d if Mr Clennam was one of our visitors, and we were dancing to delightful music, and were all as gay and light-hearted as ever we could be! I wonder—... ...oke coarsely, but with no naturally coarse voice; there was even something musical in its sound. ‘What are you doing with your- self?’ retorted Maggy,... ...ock up, lock up; but remember that you are, in the words of the fet- tered African, a man and a brother ever. The list of toasts disposed of, Mr Dorri...

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...y, is the true diversion, as it is likewise the key of the great Book, the music of the Book. They tell us how it con- denses whole sections of the bo... ...tner. The “Phoebus Apollo turned fasting friar” had entirely forgotten his musical gifts in motion. He crossed himself and crossed his bewildered lady... ...her hand. “Laetitia Dale!” he said. He panted. “Your name is sweet English music! And you are well?” The anxious question permitted him to read deeply... ...orcelain”. Vernon’s fancy of her must have sprung from her prompt and most musical responsiveness. He preferred the society of her learned father to t... ...id not, I should be looking on mist, hearing a perpetual boom in- stead of music. I remember hearing Mr. Whitford say that cynicism is intellectual da... ...ted Captain Patterne to visit me: just pre- vious to his departure for the African Coast, where Govern- ment despatches Marines when there is no other...

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...of yours to the top of mine – Ring once, ring twice – the best tune on the Musical Glasses! Y our health. May you live a thousand years, and never be ... ...a peal of bells!” The sound of her iron shoes upon the hard road was quite musical, as she came along at a much brisker trot than usual. We got a chai... ...sly strong voice (in reply to the inquisitive bore who leads that piece of music in a most impertinent manner, by wanting to know all about everybody’... ....” “Would you mind Handel for a familiar name? There’s a charming piece of music by Handel, called the Harmonious Blacksmith.” “I should like it very ... ...ignation taking the form of nuts. Lastly , Ophelia was a prey to such slow musical mad- ness, that when, in course of time, she had taken off her whit... ... had just finished putting somebody’s hat into black long-clothes, like an African baby; so he held out his hand for mine. But I, misled by the action...

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...Our music, our culture, our science, and our economic welfare all depend on a delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Do...

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...a brilliant composer, not only educated me in composition and the history of musical borrowing but co-taught a class on musical borrowing that dramati... ...s, and Carol Rose. Kembrew McLeod and Siva Vaidhyanathan inspired my work on music and sampling. Peter Jaszi was named in my last book as the person w... ...to many of its members. Whitney Brous- sard told me the dirty secrets of the music industry. Daphne Keller—a former student and later a colleague—help... ...s a lowering of copying costs hurt every industry equally. Digital copies of music were a threat to the traditional music business, but digital copies... ...1930s, or the films of the Second World War, or footage on the daily lives of African-Americans during segregation, or the music of the Great Depressio... ...t first they were successful. 36 As Yochai Benkler puts it, Alice Randall, an African American woman, was ordered by a government official not to publis... ...gree with him from quoting his autobiography in dis- cussing his life. If an African-American author wishes to tell the story of Gone With the Wind fr... ...s watching pictures of a flooded New Orleans, seeing pleading citizens—mainly African-American—and a Keystone Cops response by the Federal Emergency Ma... ...e television played certain images over and over again. People—again, mainly African-Americans—were portrayed breaking into stores, pleading from roof...

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... that stimulates the brain. Or another possibility is that different people react differently to aggression. On another track, when classical music ... ...genes. There is also a great deal of animal research that points to the existence of instincts. ―We mentioned Robert Ardrey‘s book ‗Africa... ...ned Helen Keller who, deaf and blind, graduated from college and became a famous author and lecturer. Then there is Oscar Pistorius, the South Africa... ...for justice. Just the exact opposite of those using power to subdue others in business, politics or sport. ―I cringed when I saw the Africa... ...senting adults is one thing while non-willing teenagers is something else. Just look at the female genital mutilation in Africa. Twenty eight Africa... ...ter, to ‗turn the other cheek‘ and to ‗do unto others.‘‖ —―It‘s not just the religious right! Hitler, the Keiser, Saddam Hussein, and Africa... ...s photos can indicate anti-social feelings. 60 ―The popular male music ... ... more about the most effective techniques of love-making, or should we say ‗sexing?‘ We find romantic love as the central theme of the arts, music,... ...goals of self fulfillment for our individual citizens. We make pleasant and productive use of our leisure time. We read, we exercise, we play musica...

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...38.6% Mixed Race 23.6% Native Hawaiian or Pacifc Islander 10% Black or African American 1.6% Other 1.5% HAWAI‘I’S POPULATION BY RACE State Popula... ...aring, education and organization, a traditional lifestyle redolent with music and dance, and a special relationship to the land and water. HAWAII... ... the world today for graceful, swaying movements and hauntingly romantic music. Most people know that hula is a form of storytelling in dance. The... ...iian culture by encouraging participation in traditional Hawaiian dance, music, chant, and arts and crafts. By perpetuating the culture and giving ... ...st renowned and revered hula masters, instructors, dancers, chanters and musicians. They gather at the Edith Kanaka‘ole Stadium in Hilo to perfor... ...es the Merrie Monarch Royal Parade and a night with a free exhibition of music and dance, but the most attention is focused on the three nights of...

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...thmetic—math applied to basic numbers  geometry—math applied to space  music—math applied to the time and sound of harmonics and tuning  astron... ...nd harmonics. I‘ve since noticed how common it is for scientists to enjoy music as a hobby, as did Albert Einstein.) Soon after Alcuin‘s scholarl... ... the reality of segregation at that time and funded separate libraries for African-Americans. o DDC cards in catalog drawers enabled patrons to find... ...as just finishing grade school. The family home was filled with books, music, and artwork, and his parents studied diverse fields, ending up as f...

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...lingsby.” She had been seated at an ivory pianoforte on a mother-of- pearl music-stool, trying a sonata of Herz. She rose when thus apostrophized. Mir... ...ibouk of Lord Codlingsby. IV WHEN MIRIAM, returning to the mother-of-pearl music-stool, at a signal from her brother, touched the silver and enamelled... ...ot upon the escutcheon of the Mendozas.” As they sat talking together, the music finished, and Miriam having retired (though her song and her beauty w... ...it,” says she; “I’ll make him dance a turn with me.” So, presently, as the music was going like mad all this time, I pretended fatigue from my late wo... ...p, pro- posed to the Empress to drop in on the party. He made signs to the musicians to continue: and the conqueror of Marengo and Friedland watched w... .... (six elephant’s teeth, twelve tons of palm-oil, or four healthy niggers, African currency)—the shares of this helegeble investment rose to 1, 2, 3, ... ... you guess the rest? Haven’t you seen the Share List? which says:— “‘Great Africans, paid 9d.; price 1/4 par.’ “And that’s what came of my pore dear f...

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...59 STREAM AND SUN AT GLENDALOUGH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 WORDS FOR MUSIC PERHAPS 263 I CRAZY JANE AND THE BISHOP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... ...is in the old man’s eyes, His fingers move and sway, And when the wandering music dies They hear him feebly say, ‘Huntsman Rody, blow the horn, Make th... ... 38 THE COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS Did the kiss of Mother Mary Put that music in her face? Yet she goes with footstep wary, Full of earth’s old tim... ...g of its leafy head Has given the waves their melody, And made my lips and music wed, Murmuring a wizard song for thee. There the Loves a circle go, T... ... THE ROSE 45 And with the clashing of their sword blades make A rapturous music, till the morning break And the white hush end all but the loud beat ... ...tugged and struggled there As though a stag and unicorn were met Among the African Mountains of the Moon, Until at last the double horns, drawn backwa...

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...and poison brewing, and choking by sulphur. From the Palace esplanade, where music plays while Serene Highness is pleased to eat his victuals, down to... ...es. Gay mansions, with supper rooms and dancing rooms, are full of light and music and high swelling hearts; but, in the Condemned Cells, the pulse of... ...lls; so that when a man walks, it is with contin ual jingling. Some few, of musical turn, have a whole chime of bells (Glocken 32 SARTOR RESARTUS s... ... thou flewest through the middle thereof, striking fire from the highway; wild music hummed in thy ears, thou too wert as a “sailor of 40 SARTOR RESART... ...earied children sported, and the young men and maidens often danced to flute music. “Glorious summer twilights,” cries Teufelsdr¨ ockh, “when the Sun,... ...when the Runic Thor, with his Eddas, must withdraw into dimness; and many an African Mumbo Jumbo and In dian Pawaw be utterly abolished. For all thin...

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...ooking out of a window into a street, or listening to a piece of agreeable music, and that might be the limit of its effect. But almost always the nov... ...- other twenty-six millions were foreigners. Another nine mil- lion are of African negro descent. Fourteen million of the sixty-five million native-bo... ...lectual power from the British Colonel Norths, for ex- ample, or the South African Joels. In my “Future in America” I have taken the former largely at... ...ays been his dream to have a piano. The youngest girl, he is convinced, is musical. As a man who has knocked about the world and has thought, he quite...

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... that there was no higher Reason controlling the universe. This man had an African slave who followed him ev erywhere. When the theologian entered th... ...After the hunt he again feasted with his friends, and was entertained with music and dances, and the night he spent with the wife whom he loved. So, d...

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...oys them. Oppression has, at one stroke, deprived the de- scendants of the Africans of almost all the privileges of hu- manity. The negro of the Unite... ...and the peculiarity of the race perpetuates the tradition of sla- very. No African has ever voluntarily emigrated to the shores of the New World; when... ...in the former districts. It was to the southern settlements that the first Africans were brought, and it is there that the greatest number of them hav... ...y, but by the compulsory emigration of the negroes from the North; and the African race has causes of increase in the South very analogous to those wh... ... to the Continent from which they were originally taken; and the barbarous Africans have been brought into contact with civilization in the midst of b... ...y mournful strain,” says Champlain, who was not then aware that all savage music has a melancholy character. The tortures which succeeded, accompanied...

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...mently in the future. They saw too many people at Wickham Place—un- shaven musicians, an actress even, German cousins (one knows what foreigners are),... ...t once, and naturally. Your po- ets too are dying, your philosophers, your musicians, to whom Europe has listened for two hundred years. Gone. Gone wi... ...disturb the others—or like Helen, who can see heroes and shipwrecks in the music’s flood; or like Margaret, who can only see the music; or like Tibby,... ...shillings. It is cheap, even if you hear it in the Queen’s Hall, dreariest music-room in Lon- don, though not as dreary as the Free Trade Hall, Manche... ...man or other whom she takes an interest in?” “I expect so,” Helen replied. Music enwrapped her, and she could not enter into the distinction that di- ... ...We took the flat chiefly on that account, and also that Paul could get his African outfit. The flat be- longs to a cousin of my husband’s, and she mos... ...n o’clock, she pre- sented herself at the offices of the Imperial and West African Rubber Company. She was glad to go there, for Henry had implied his... ...n, civil to the last, and in a moment the offices of the Imperial and West African Rubber Company faded away. But it was not an impressive drive. Perh...

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...ans, not all seemly, were thrust upon him, and 79 The Day’s Work infernal music rolled and maddened round red fires, while singers sang songs of the ... ...rew an overpowering blaze, and whooped up the humming track to the roaring music of a happy giant’s song: “With a michnai—ghignai—shtingal! Yah! Yah!... ...re what they call a Pioneer regiment, and the bag- pipes made the national music of half their men. The native officers held bundles of polo-sticks, l... ...kards for whom a sea-voyage was recommended; there were frowzy little West African boats, full of rats and cock- roaches, where men died anywhere but ... ...hers on flint implements, car- pets, prehistoric man, or early Renaissance music. They came, and they played with him. They asked no questions; they c... ...sary till bed- time, but meditated on new colors and sounds and lights and music and things as far as he understood them; the deep- mouthed agony of M...

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... father. He had a young sister with a remarkable voice—he was giving her a musical education, so that her longing to be self supporting might be grat... ... comforts were now curtailed? Y.M. Quite seriously. Yes. O.M. The sister’s music lessens had to stop? Y.M. Yes. O.M. The young brother’s education—wel... ... same machine, but of unequal capacities—like yours and Edison’s; like the African pygmy’s and Homer’s; like the Bushman’s and Bismarck’s. Y.M. How ar... ...law by which it automatically hammers out of a piano an elaborate piece of music, with out error, while the man is thinking about something else, or ... ... a good letter, and was swift with her pen. She had but an indifferent ear music, but her tongue took to languages with an easy facility. She never al... ...rom the infection. In the homes there were no cheerful faces, there was no music, there was no singing but of solemn hymns, no voice but of prayer, no...

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...clarions shrill were heard, And every one to rouse him fierce begun, Sweet music to each heart for war prepared, The soldiers glad by heaps to harness... ... lady slept. V The birds awoke her with their morning song, Their warbling music pierced her tender ear, The murmuring brooks and whistling winds amon... ...ordage fail, Wind, thunder, rain, all gave a dreadful sound, And with that music deafed the trembling ground. 179 Torquato Tasso EIGHTH BOOK THE ARGU... ...ds they gone, No thundering drum, no trumpet shrill they hear, Their godly music psalms and prayers were. VII To thee, O Father, Son, and sacred Sprit... ...g, her sister lured them nigh With many a gesture kind and loving show, To music’s sound as dames in court apply Their cunning feet, and dance now swi... ...g spread her squadrons trim O’er the large plain, did Altamoro stand, With African and Persian kings with him, And two that came from Meroe’s hot sand... ...trong his troops he led, Whose side the Moors had open left and plain, The Africans that should have succored That battle, all were run away or slain,...