Birdsong, Speech and Poetry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Birdsong, Speech and Poetry write by Francesca Mackenney. This book was released on 2022-09-22. Birdsong, Speech and Poetry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the long nineteenth century, scientists discovered striking similarities between how birds learn to sing and how children learn to speak. Tracing the 'science of birdsong' as it developed from the 'ingenious' experiments of Daines Barrington to the evolutionary arguments of Charles Darwin, Francesca Mackenney reveals a legacy of thought which informs, and consequently affords fresh insights into, a canonical group of poems about birdsong in the Romantic and Victorian periods. With a particular focus on the writings of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the Wordsworth siblings, John Clare and Thomas Hardy, her book explores how poets responded to an analogy which challenged definitions of language and therefore of what it means to be human. Drawing together responses to birdsong in science, music and poetry, her distinctive interdisciplinary approach challenges many of the long-standing cultural assumptions which have shaped (and continue to shape) how we respond to other creatures in the Anthropocene.
Sung Birds
Sung Birds - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sung Birds write by Elizabeth Eva Leach. This book was released on 2018-07-05. Sung Birds available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Is birdsong music? The most frequent answer to this question in the Middle Ages was resoundingly "no." In Sung Birds, Elizabeth Eva Leach traces postmedieval uses of birdsong within Western musical culture. She first explains why such melodious sound was not music for medieval thinkers and then goes on to consider the ontology of music, the significance of comparisons between singers and birds, and the relationship between art and nature as enacted by the musical performance of late-medieval poetry. If birdsong was not music, how should we interpret the musical depiction of birdsong in human music-making? What does it tell us about the singers, their listeners, and the moral status of secular polyphony? Why was it the fourteenth century that saw the beginnings of this practice, continued to this day in the music of Messiaen and others?Leach explores medieval arguments about song, language, and rationality whose basic terms survive undiminished into the present. She considers not only lyrics that have their singers voice the songs or speech of birds but also those that represent other natural, nonmusical, sounds such as human cries or the barks of dogs. The dangerous sweetness of birdsong was invoked in discussions of musical ethics, which, because of the potential slippage between irrational beast and less rational woman in comparisons with rational human masculinity, depict women's singing as less than fully human. Leach's argument comes full circle with the advent of sound recording. This technological revolution-like its medieval equivalent, the invention of the music book-once again made the relationship between music and nature an acute preoccupation of Western culture.
Birdsongs
Birdsongs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Birdsongs write by Betsy Franco. This book was released on 2007-01-09. Birdsongs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Young readers can celebrate the birds in their own neighborhoods with this lyrical picture book that helps them learn to count backwards from ten to one. Full color.
Negotiations
Negotiations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Negotiations write by Destiny O. Birdsong. This book was released on 2020-10-13. Negotiations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Full of wonder." —Elizabeth Acevedo A Best Book of the Year at BuzzFeed, Refinery29, and Entropy Magazine What makes a self? In her remarkable debut collection of poems, Destiny O. Birdsong writes fearlessly towards this question. Laced with ratchetry, yet hungering for its own respectability, Negotiations is about what it means to live in this America, about Cardi B and top-tier journal publications, about autoimmune disease and the speaker’s intense hunger for her own body—a surprise of self-love in the aftermath of both assault and diagnosis. It’s a series of love letters to black women, who are often singled out for abuse and assault, silencing and tokenism, fetishization and cultural appropriation in ways that throw the rock, then hide the hand. It is a book about tenderness and an indictment of people and systems that attempt to narrow black women’s lives, their power. But it is also an examination of complicity—both a narrative and a black box warning for a particular kind of self-healing that requires recognizing culpability when and where it exists.
Birdsong
Birdsong - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Birdsong write by Catherine Mary Sabala. This book was released on 2006-09-18. Birdsong available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Birdsong represents a lyrical journey through understanding ourselves, our parents, and our hearts. It echoes with observations of the human condition as well as resonates with anyone who has loved and lost, braved the world's tests, and found understanding with who they are and where they're going. Birdsong is a collection of wise insights that will make you laugh in recognition, sigh in kinship, and cry with joy at having discovered this true voice. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.
