The Accordionist S Son
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The Accordionist S Son
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Author : Bernardo Atxaga
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2008-09-04
The Accordionist S Son written by Bernardo Atxaga and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-04 with Fiction categories.
The Accordionist's Son is a remarkably powerful and accomplished novel, exploring the life of David Imaz, a former inhabitant of the Basque village of Obaba, now living in exile and ill-health on a ranch in California. As a young man, David divides his time between his uncle's ranch and his life in the village, where he reluctantly practises the accordion on the insistence of his authoritarian father. Increasingly aware of the long shadow cast by the Spanish Civil War, he begins to unravel the story of the conflict, his father's association with the fascists and his uncle's opposition and brave decision to hide a wanted republican. Caught betweeen the two men, the course of his own life is changed forever when he agrees to shelter a group of students on the run from the military police. Translated by Margaret Jull Costa.
The Accordion Family
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Author : Katherine S. Newman
language : en
Publisher: Beacon Press
Release Date : 2013-01-29
The Accordion Family written by Katherine S. Newman and has been published by Beacon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-29 with Social Science categories.
Why are adults in their twenties and thirties stuck in their parents’ homes in the world’s wealthiest countries? There’s no question that globalization has drastically changed the cultural landscape across the world. The cost of living is rising, and high unemployment rates have created an untenable economic climate that has severely compromised the path to adulthood for young people in their twenties and thirties. And there’s no end in sight. Families are hunkering down, expanding the reach of their households to envelop economically vulnerable young adults. Acclaimed sociologist Katherine Newman explores the trend toward a rising number of “accordion families” composed of adult children who will be living off their parents’ retirement savings with little means of their own when the older generation is gone. While the trend crosses the developed world, the cultural and political responses to accordion families differ dramatically. In Japan, there is a sense of horror and fear associated with “parasite singles,” whereas in Italy, the “cult of mammismo,” or mamma’s boys, is common and widely accepted, though the government is rallying against it. Meanwhile, in Spain, frustrated parents and millenials angrily blame politicians and big business for the growing number of youth forced to live at home. Newman’s investigation, conducted in six countries, transports the reader into the homes of accordion families and uncovers fascinating links between globalization and the failure-to-launch trend. Drawing from over three hundred interviews, Newman concludes that nations with weak welfare states have the highest frequency of accordion families while the trend is virtually unknown in the Nordic countries. The United States is caught in between. But globalization is reshaping the landscape of adulthood everywhere, and the consequences are far-reaching in our private lives. In this gripping and urgent book, Newman urges Americans not to simply dismiss the boomerang generation but, rather, to strategize how we can help the younger generation make its own place in the world.
The Geographical Imagination Of Annie Proulx
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Author : Alex Hunt
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2010-11-23
The Geographical Imagination Of Annie Proulx written by Alex Hunt and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
This highly readable edited collection focuses on the work of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Proulx. Each contributor to this volume explores a different facet of Proulx's striking attention to geography, place, landscape, regional environments, and local economies in her writing. Covering all of her novels and short story collections, scholars from the United States, Canada, and abroad engage in critical analyses of Proulx's new regionalism, use of geographical settings, and themes of displacement and immigration. Taken together, these essays demonstrate Annie Proulx's contribution to new regionalist understandings of place on local, national, and global scales. Readers will come away with a better understanding of Proulx's particular landscapes_particularly those of Wyoming, New England, Texas, and Newfoundland_and the issues surrounding the significance of these regions in contemporary American culture and literature.
The Accordion In The Americas
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Author : Helena Simonett
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2012-09-28
The Accordion In The Americas written by Helena Simonett and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-28 with History categories.
This collection considers the accordion and its myriad forms, from the concertina, button accordion, and piano accordion familiar in European and North American music to the exotic-sounding South American bandoneon and the sanfoninha. Capturing the instrument's spread and adaptation to many different cultures in North and South America, contributors illuminate how the accordion factored into power struggles over aesthetic values between elites and working-class people who often were members of immigrant and/or marginalized ethnic communities. Specific histories and cultural contexts discussed include the accordion in Brazil, Argentine tango, accordion traditions in Colombia, cross-border accordion culture between Mexico and Texas, Cajun and Creole identity, working-class culture near Lake Superior, the virtuoso Italian-American and Klezmer accordions, Native American dance music, and American avant-garde.
The Music Of Multicultural America
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Author : Kip Lornell
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2016-01-04
The Music Of Multicultural America written by Kip Lornell and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-04 with Music categories.
The Music of Multicultural America explores the intersection of performance, identity, and community in a wide range of musical expressions. Fifteen essays explore traditions that range from the Klezmer revival in New York, to Arab music in Detroit, to West Indian steel bands in Brooklyn, to Kathak music and dance in California, to Irish music in Boston, to powwows in the midwestern plains, to Hispanic and Native musics of the Southwest borderlands. Many chapters demonstrate the processes involved in supporting, promoting, and reviving community music. Others highlight the ways in which such American institutions as city festivals or state and national folklife agencies come into play. Thirteen themes and processes outlined in the introduction unify the collection's fifteen case studies and suggest organizing frameworks for student projects. Due to the diversity of music profiled in the book—Mexican mariachi, African American gospel, Asian West Coast jazz, women's punk, French-American Cajun, and Anglo-American sacred harp—and to the methodology of fieldwork, ethnography, and academic activism described by the authors, the book is perfect for courses in ethnomusicology, world music, anthropology, folklore, and American studies. Audio and visual materials that support each chapter are freely available on the ATMuse website, supported by the Archives of Traditional Music at Indiana University.
Accordion Eulogies
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Author : Noé Álvarez
language : en
Publisher: Catapult
Release Date : 2024-05-28
Accordion Eulogies written by Noé Álvarez and has been published by Catapult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Searching, propulsive, and deeply spiritual, Accordion Eulogies is an odyssey to repair a severed family lineage, told through the surprising history of a musical instrument Growing up in Yakima, Washington, Noé Álvarez never knew his grandfather. Stories swirled around this mythologized, larger-than-life figure: That he had abandoned his family, and had possibly done something awful that put a curse on his descendants. About his grandfather, young Noé was sure of only one thing: That he had played the accordion. Now an adult, reckoning with the legacy of silence surrounding his family’s migration from Mexico, Álvarez resolves both to take up the instrument and to journey into Mexico to discover the grandfather he never knew. Álvarez travels across the US with his accordion, meeting makers and players in cities that range from San Antonio to Boston. He uncovers the story of an instrument that’s been central to classic American genres, but also played a critical role in indigenous Mexican history. Like the accordion itself, Álvarez feels trapped between his roots in Mexico and the U.S. As he tries to make sense of his place in the world—as a father, a son, a musician—he gets closer to uncovering the mystery of his origins.
Second Edition Accordion And World S Best Contemporary Accordionists
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Author : Maximillien de Lafayette
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
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Second Edition Accordion And World S Best Contemporary Accordionists written by Maximillien de Lafayette and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
From The Shadow Of An Accordion To Eternity Talking To Accordionists Worth Listening To
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Author : Times Square Press
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
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From The Shadow Of An Accordion To Eternity Talking To Accordionists Worth Listening To written by Times Square Press and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Accordion Crimes
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Author : Annie Proulx
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2007-12-01
Accordion Crimes written by Annie Proulx and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-01 with Fiction categories.
Pulitzer Prize–winning author Annie Proulx brings the immigrant experience to life in this stunning novel that traces the ownership of a simple green accordion. E. Annie Proulx’s Accordion Crimes is a masterpiece of storytelling that spans a century and a continent. Proulx brings the immigrant experience in America to life through the eyes of the descendants of Mexicans, Poles, Africans, Irish-Scots, Franco-Canadians and many others, all linked by their successive ownership of a simple green accordion. The music they make is their last link with the past—voice for their fantasies, sorrows and exuberance. Proulx’s prodigious knowledge, unforgettable characters and radiant language make Accordion Crimes a stunning novel, exhilarating in its scope and originality.
The Musical Standard
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1868
The Musical Standard written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1868 with Music categories.