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Why Eleven Antilleans Knelt before Chopin's Heart is not your usual musical scholarship. In October 1999, eleven Antilleans attended the service held to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Frédéric Chopin's death. This service, held in the Warsaw church where the composer's heart is kept in an urn, was an opportunity for these Antilleans to express their debt of gratitude to Chopin, whose influence is central to Antillean music history. Press coverage of this event caused Dutch novelist and author Jan Brokken (b. 1949) to start writing this book, based on notes he took while living on Curaçao from 1993 to 2002.Anyone hoping to discover an overlooked chapter of Caribbean music and music history will be amply rewarded with this Dutch-Caribbean perspective on the pan-Caribbean process of creolization. On Curaçao, the history and legacy of slavery shaped culture and music, affecting all the New World. Brokken's portraits of prominent Dutch Antillean composers are interspersed with cultural and music history. He puts the Dutch Caribbean's contributions into a broader context by also examining the nineteenth-century works by pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk from New Orleans and Manuel Saumell from Cuba. Brokken explores the African component of Dutch Antillean music–examining the history of the rhythm and music known as tambú as well as American jazz pianist Chick Corea's fascination with the tumba rhythm from Curaçao. The book ends with a discussion of how recent Dutch Caribbean adaptations of European dance forms have shifted from a classical approach to contemporary forms of Latin jazz.
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700 years of people in Scotland, England, Europe, and the world fighting for freedom, sovereignty, independence and justice are investigated in the essential periods and cultures since the 1320 Declaration of Arbroath: the Middle Ages, the Reformation and Early Modern Age, the English Revolution, the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Cultural, media, political, and social studies, history, the law, art, philosophy, and literature are used for an analysis of the evolution of human rights, democracy, freedom, individual as well as national independence and justice in connection with past and present threats to them. Threats from politics, the economy, digitalisation, artificial intelligence, people's ignorance. With contributions by Alasdair Allan MSP, Christopher J. Berry, Neil Blain, Alexander Broadie FRSE, Dauvit Broun, Mark P. Bruce, Ewen A. Cameron, Robert Crawford, Ian Duncan, Richard J. Finlay, David Forrest, Edouard Gaudot, Marjory Harper, Sarah Longlands, Ben McConville, David McCrone, Aileen McHarg, John Morrison, Klaus Peter Müller, Hugh O’Donnell, Murray Pittock, Anthony Salamone, David R. Sorensen, Silke Stroh, Christopher A. Whatley and Ben Wray.
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Published in 1886, the original copy of this antiquarian gem is coveted by collectors everywhere.
The author is almost more fascinating than the accounts of his adventures traveling through the Kalahari. Born in Ontario as William Leonard Hunt, he went on to lead the famous circus troupe “The Flying Farinis”, the inventor behind folding theater seats and the modern parachute, and the creator of the first human cannonball act.
The book itself consists of Farini’s thoughts and observations in the Kalahari as a botanist and a scientist, as well as his descriptions of the fascinating people and events that befell him during his travels.
The author is almost more fascinating than the accounts of his adventures traveling through the Kalahari. Born in Ontario as William Leonard Hunt, he went on to lead the famous circus troupe “The Flying Farinis”, the inventor behind folding theater seats and the modern parachute, and the creator of the first human cannonball act.
The book itself consists of Farini’s thoughts and observations in the Kalahari as a botanist and a scientist, as well as his descriptions of the fascinating people and events that befell him during his travels.
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Книга «Мусульмане: подлинная история расцвета и упадка» состоит из двух частей. Первая книга рассказывает об истории возникновения и формирования мусульманского общества, о выдающихся достижениях в Средние века, роли исламского мира в прогрессе мировой цивилизации, о неизвестных страницах истории мусульман. Во второй книге приведена версия автора об основных причинах научно-культурного упадка в мусульманском обществе в результате монгольского нашествия и их многовекового господства в мусульманском мире. Автор предлагает различные пути выхода из данного положения посредством проведения реформ в мусульманском обществе. Книга написана на основе персидских и арабских средневековых источников, доселе не изданных на русском языке, и богато иллюстрирована оригинальными картами, хронологическими и генеалогическими таблицами. С учётом нынешнего цивилизационного противостояния Восток-Запад, работа может иметь успех у широкой аудитории читателей, интересующихся историей ислама.