The Road Dance - 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 The Road Dance write by John MacKay. This book was released on 2022-05-01. The Road Dance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This edition is releasing to celebrate the release of the award winning film adaptation, starring Hermione Corfield, Will Fletcher and Mark Gatiss and directed by Richie Adams. Cinematic release set for May 2022 in UK and Irish cinemas. Winner of the Edinburgh International Film Festival Audience Award 2021. Kirsty MacLeod is a beautiful young woman, coveted by all the young men of her island village. She dreams of America, of following the setting sun west to a better life. She meets the man who dreams her dreams and promises to make them come true. But then the Great War breaks out and the men must leave for battle. In their honour, the islanders organise a grand Road Dance. That night she is raped. She is left with a secret that will bring shame upon her and her family and ultimately on the child she is carrying. On a night of storms and sorrow, she has to make her choice and it is no choice at all.
Songs that Make the Road Dance
Songs that Make the Road Dance - 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 Songs that Make the Road Dance write by Linda O'Brien-Rothe. This book was released on 2015-08-01. Songs that Make the Road Dance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An important and previously unexplored body of esoteric ritual songs of the Tz’utujil Maya of Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala, the “Songs of the Old Ones” are a central vehicle for the transmission of cultural norms of behavior and beliefs within this group of highland Maya. Ethnomusicologist Linda O’Brien-Rothe began collecting these songs in 1966, and she has amassed the largest, and perhaps the only significant, collection that documents this nearly lost element of highland Maya ritual life. This book presents a representative selection of the more than ninety songs in O’Brien-Rothe’s collection, including musical transcriptions and over two thousand lines presented in Tz’utujil and English translation. (Audio files of the songs can be downloaded from the UT Press website.) Using the words of the “songmen” who perform them, O’Brien-Rothe explores how the songs are intended to move the “Old Ones”—the ancestors or Nawals—to favor the people and cause the earth to labor and bring forth corn. She discusses how the songs give new insights into the complex meaning of dance in Maya cosmology, as well as how they employ poetic devices and designs that place them within the tradition of K’iche’an literature, of which they are an oral form. O’Brien-Rothe identifies continuities between the songs and the K’iche’an origin myth, the Popol Vuh, while also tracing their composition to the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries by their similarities with the early chaconas that were played on the Spanish guitarra española, which survives in Santiago Atitlán as a five-string guitar.
Catholicity and Progress in Ireland
Catholicity and Progress in Ireland - 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 Catholicity and Progress in Ireland write by Michael O'Riordan. This book was released on 1906. Catholicity and Progress in Ireland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Dance and Some Dancers
The Dance and Some Dancers - 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 The Dance and Some Dancers write by . This book was released on 1927. The Dance and Some Dancers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Untilled Field
The Untilled Field - 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 The Untilled Field write by George Moore. This book was released on 1903. The Untilled Field available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
