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Collecting Folk Narratives In New York City Today, Francesca Sautman
Collecting Folk Narratives In New York City Today, Francesca Sautman
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Teaching French With The Fairy Tale: Folk Tales Written By Students Of French, Francesca Sautman
Teaching French With The Fairy Tale: Folk Tales Written By Students Of French, Francesca Sautman
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A small number of language departments throughout the country have begun to incorporate courses based on the fairy tale into their curriculum. In a French composition course (third-year level) which I taught at Hunter College of CUNY in the Fall of 1989, folk, fairy and marvelous tales were used as a basis for written and oral instruction. They generated fascinating examples of how folk tale structures remain quite alive with students studying and living in a contemporary, Western, highly urban environment, and how, specifically, their own cultural backgrounds and interests found a privileged mode of expression in this genre.
Legitimate And Illegitimate Variation In Raga Interpretations, Peter L. Manuel
Legitimate And Illegitimate Variation In Raga Interpretations, Peter L. Manuel
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The Infusion Of Teachers From Eastern Indonesia Into West Kalimantan, Jay H. Bernstein
The Infusion Of Teachers From Eastern Indonesia Into West Kalimantan, Jay H. Bernstein
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Variation Procedures In Northern Ewe Song, V. Kofi Agawu
Variation Procedures In Northern Ewe Song, V. Kofi Agawu
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The major organizational principle of Northern Ewe song is one shared by numerous African, Oriental, and European musical traditions: a small number of models (variously described as "basic shapes," "archetypes," "background structures," "basic designs," "core patterns," "deep structures") is transformed in a wide variety of ways during performance. Variation takes place on different hierarchic levels both within and between songs and includes practically all of a song's dimensions (rhythm, interval, register, contour, harmony, and so on). This principle, although widely demonstrated in the literature on African song (see, among others, Jones 1976; Kauffman 1984; Schmidt 1984; and Erlmann 1985), is …
Representation, Liberation, And The Queer Press, Polly Thistlethwaite
Representation, Liberation, And The Queer Press, Polly Thistlethwaite
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Lesbian and gay people lay special claim to the power of the printed word. It is through the printed word, consumed privately and anonymously, that we often first call ourselves queer. Coming out stories are thick with accounts of self-discovery through reading and exploration in libraries.