Regula Burckhardt Qureshi
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- May 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195173048
- eISBN:
- 9780199872091
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195173048.003.0003
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
By focusing on the celebration of the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad (milad) by South Asian Muslim women in Edmonton, Canada, this chapter refocuses the usual consideration of Islam as public and ...
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By focusing on the celebration of the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad (milad) by South Asian Muslim women in Edmonton, Canada, this chapter refocuses the usual consideration of Islam as public and male-oriented. Immigrant and ethnic Canadian Muslim women gather in homes and perform the prayers and recited texts that are not strictly considered music, employing texts and styles that are gathered from different traditions. The Arabic and Urdu languages are used separately and together, and distinctive styles and genres of worship are mixed to create musical practices traditional in Islam and new to Canada. The creativity of the Muslim women is considerable as it further creates new spaces for Islam that then becomes part of their religious and immigrant experiences in Canada.Less
By focusing on the celebration of the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad (milad) by South Asian Muslim women in Edmonton, Canada, this chapter refocuses the usual consideration of Islam as public and male-oriented. Immigrant and ethnic Canadian Muslim women gather in homes and perform the prayers and recited texts that are not strictly considered music, employing texts and styles that are gathered from different traditions. The Arabic and Urdu languages are used separately and together, and distinctive styles and genres of worship are mixed to create musical practices traditional in Islam and new to Canada. The creativity of the Muslim women is considerable as it further creates new spaces for Islam that then becomes part of their religious and immigrant experiences in Canada.
Martin Bloomer
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520255760
- eISBN:
- 9780520948402
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520255760.001.0001
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
This cultural and intellectual history focuses on education as practiced by the imperial-age Romans, looking at what they considered the value of education and its effect on children. The author ...
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This cultural and intellectual history focuses on education as practiced by the imperial-age Romans, looking at what they considered the value of education and its effect on children. The author details the processes, exercises, claims, and contexts of liberal education from the late first century Bce to the third century ce—the epoch of rhetorical education. He examines the adaptation of Greek institutions, methods, and texts by the Romans, and traces the Romans' own history of education. The author argues that while Rome's enduring educational legacy includes the seven liberal arts and a canon of school texts, its practice of competitive displays of reading, writing, and reciting were intended to instill in the young social as well as intellectual ideas.Less
This cultural and intellectual history focuses on education as practiced by the imperial-age Romans, looking at what they considered the value of education and its effect on children. The author details the processes, exercises, claims, and contexts of liberal education from the late first century Bce to the third century ce—the epoch of rhetorical education. He examines the adaptation of Greek institutions, methods, and texts by the Romans, and traces the Romans' own history of education. The author argues that while Rome's enduring educational legacy includes the seven liberal arts and a canon of school texts, its practice of competitive displays of reading, writing, and reciting were intended to instill in the young social as well as intellectual ideas.
Schaeffer Kurtis R.
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195152999
- eISBN:
- 9780199849932
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195152999.003.0014
- Subject:
- Religion, Buddhism
This chapter relates how Orgyan Chokyi gave up working in the kitchen and stayed in meditation reciting prayers. Orgyan Chokyi lived at Nyimapuk for seven years. For four years she worked in the ...
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This chapter relates how Orgyan Chokyi gave up working in the kitchen and stayed in meditation reciting prayers. Orgyan Chokyi lived at Nyimapuk for seven years. For four years she worked in the kitchen. During the following three years Chokyi built a small meditation cell, and at this point felt she had no need for the work of this life. Chokyi has seen and heard people dying regardless of whether they were young or old. These felt like signs of her own quick death and she was afraid of her own death. As she pondered such things she made a commitment, and she recited prayers and meditated. At that point the master traveled to Nechen Tadru, and Chokyi accompanied him. She set up a small cave and remained in retreat reciting prayers and meditating.Less
This chapter relates how Orgyan Chokyi gave up working in the kitchen and stayed in meditation reciting prayers. Orgyan Chokyi lived at Nyimapuk for seven years. For four years she worked in the kitchen. During the following three years Chokyi built a small meditation cell, and at this point felt she had no need for the work of this life. Chokyi has seen and heard people dying regardless of whether they were young or old. These felt like signs of her own quick death and she was afraid of her own death. As she pondered such things she made a commitment, and she recited prayers and meditated. At that point the master traveled to Nechen Tadru, and Chokyi accompanied him. She set up a small cave and remained in retreat reciting prayers and meditating.
Anne K. Rasmussen
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520255487
- eISBN:
- 9780520947429
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520255487.003.0003
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
Indonesians are recognized today throughout the Muslim world community, or umma, as excellent reciters, and qari's and qari'as often place among the champions in international competitions. This ...
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Indonesians are recognized today throughout the Muslim world community, or umma, as excellent reciters, and qari's and qari'as often place among the champions in international competitions. This chapter considers how people conceptualize musical activity and organize musical patterns in ways that they can communicate to their students and peers, and in ways which communicate, in a more general sense, with their publics.Less
Indonesians are recognized today throughout the Muslim world community, or umma, as excellent reciters, and qari's and qari'as often place among the champions in international competitions. This chapter considers how people conceptualize musical activity and organize musical patterns in ways that they can communicate to their students and peers, and in ways which communicate, in a more general sense, with their publics.
Stephen Bottomore
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199797615
- eISBN:
- 9780199979738
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199797615.003.0004
- Subject:
- Music, Popular, History, Western
In 1911, the former actor Eric Williams started a new career reciting to his own specially made films. Over the next few years he produced and acted in some dozen films, and recited to these in ...
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In 1911, the former actor Eric Williams started a new career reciting to his own specially made films. Over the next few years he produced and acted in some dozen films, and recited to these in numerous theaters throughout the United Kingdom.The film narratives were based on pre-existing texts, such as scenes from Shakespeare or popular ballads by the likes of Frederick Weatherly or G. R. Sims. Williams had evident talent as an “elocutionist,” but the chapter argues that his appeal was also founded on a unique fusion of three factors: his films were specially made and not off the shelf, he appeared both in the film and reciting live in the theater, and he lip-synced some of the lines of the on-screen performers.Less
In 1911, the former actor Eric Williams started a new career reciting to his own specially made films. Over the next few years he produced and acted in some dozen films, and recited to these in numerous theaters throughout the United Kingdom.The film narratives were based on pre-existing texts, such as scenes from Shakespeare or popular ballads by the likes of Frederick Weatherly or G. R. Sims. Williams had evident talent as an “elocutionist,” but the chapter argues that his appeal was also founded on a unique fusion of three factors: his films were specially made and not off the shelf, he appeared both in the film and reciting live in the theater, and he lip-synced some of the lines of the on-screen performers.
John A. Crespi
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824833657
- eISBN:
- 9780824868871
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824833657.003.0005
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This chapter attempts to recover the performance texts of recited poetry during the War of Resistance period. As it follows poems and poets through the war years, it provides as thorough a recounting ...
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This chapter attempts to recover the performance texts of recited poetry during the War of Resistance period. As it follows poems and poets through the war years, it provides as thorough a recounting of context as possible by referring to the range of materials that record this lost poetry of performance. These materials includes diaries, memoirs, performance reviews, forewords, articles from contemporary journals and newspaper literary supplements, and, of course, printed versions of poems themselves. Always fragmentary and inevitably shot through with bias, evasions, and embellishments, these materials can nonetheless be woven into a narrative that traces the makings of poetry recitation's establishment as a new genre of performed literature. The chapter traces poets and their poetic events from the early years of 1937–1938 in Guangzhou and the tricity (Hankou, Hanyang, Wuchang) complex of Wuhan, to the rural hinterland surrounding Wuhan, the Communist base of Yan'an, and finally into the middle and late years of recitation in Shanghai, Chongqing, Chengdu, and Guilin. Along the way it considers the major personalities of wartime recitation as they move from region to region and city to city, carrying with them the energy and agency without which there would have been no movement at all.Less
This chapter attempts to recover the performance texts of recited poetry during the War of Resistance period. As it follows poems and poets through the war years, it provides as thorough a recounting of context as possible by referring to the range of materials that record this lost poetry of performance. These materials includes diaries, memoirs, performance reviews, forewords, articles from contemporary journals and newspaper literary supplements, and, of course, printed versions of poems themselves. Always fragmentary and inevitably shot through with bias, evasions, and embellishments, these materials can nonetheless be woven into a narrative that traces the makings of poetry recitation's establishment as a new genre of performed literature. The chapter traces poets and their poetic events from the early years of 1937–1938 in Guangzhou and the tricity (Hankou, Hanyang, Wuchang) complex of Wuhan, to the rural hinterland surrounding Wuhan, the Communist base of Yan'an, and finally into the middle and late years of recitation in Shanghai, Chongqing, Chengdu, and Guilin. Along the way it considers the major personalities of wartime recitation as they move from region to region and city to city, carrying with them the energy and agency without which there would have been no movement at all.
