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Boom boom go away!
A cumulative rhyme in which a young boy emphatically and noisily tells his parents to go away when they say it is time for bed.
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A Poetic Voice for Autonomy: Child Subjectivity in Premodern Japan
This essay explores the potential for poetry to illuminate moments of initiative and resistance on the part of boy acolytes (chigo) involved in non-illicit/condoned sexual relationships with adult monks in medieval Japanese Buddhist temples. Discussing numerous poems found in various anthologies produced in Buddhist temples, some in the context of poetic exchanges, the article argues that the vision communicated in poetry suggests some chigo enjoyed a surprising degree of freedom of voice, thought, and action that is at odds with current historiography, by which measure these boys of various ages would have had no power. In addition, the monks who granted the youths this freedom expressed both anxiety and helplessness in the face of the boys' self-agency. As this suggests, some authors and compilers of such poems—including youths themselves—chose to present a realm wherein chigo maintained a remarkable autonomy within an otherwise strict, hierarchical society.
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My family plays music
A musical family with talents for playing a variety of instruments enjoys getting together to celebrate.
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MORE THAN ACCESS: Limitless Libraries, a School District and Public Library Partnership That Shines
Imagine if your learners could have access to millions of items beyond the walls of your school library. In Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS), this dream is a reality. Through a partnership called Limitless Libraries, their learners can access the holdings of their Nashville Public Library (NPL), connecting them to books and other materials outside the walls of their schools. Conceived in 2009 at the request of Mayor Karl Dean, and led by Program Manager Syreeta Butler, this resource-sharing partnership breaks down barriers to access by allowing their learners to have even more print and digital items at their fingertips, right when they need them. This supports their efforts to promote lifelong reading and learning. Limitless Libraries received an American Association of School Librarians (AASL) commendation in 2023 for this innovative partnership, and they hope that once their learners leave MNPS, they will be practiced public library users and will use this valuable resource, no matter where they live.
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Play this book
Illustrations and simple, rhyming text invite the reader to try various instruments and join a band.
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FORUM 15
Melissa McCarthy plays real-life con artist Lee Israel in diis 2018 film, which asks to what degree real writing genius can be directly imitated. Israel had a knack for forging letters in the voices of great American authors. 8 ZEN IN THE ART OF WRITING Member Ashley McGrath (University of Central Florida) thought this collection of essays on die writing life by legendary science fiction author Ray Bradbury worth noting. First published in 2003, this work from Lynn Truss remains a delight.
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One Woman in a Hundred
Gifted harpist Edna Phillips (1907-2003) joined the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1930, becoming not only that ensemble's first female member but also the first woman to hold a principal position in a major American orchestra. Plucked from the Curtis Institute of Music in the midst of her studies, Phillips was only twenty-three years old when Leopold Stokowski, one of the twentieth century's most innovative and controversial conductors, named her principal harpist. This candid, colorful account traces Phillips's journey through the competitive realm of Philadelphia's virtuoso players, where she survived--and thrived--thanks to her undeniable talent, determination, and lively humor._x000B__x000B_Drawing on extensive interviews with Phillips, her family, and colleagues as well as archival sources, One Woman in a Hundred chronicles the training, aspirations, setbacks, and successes of this pioneering woman musician. Mary Sue Welsh recounts numerous insider stories of rehearsal and performance with Stokowski and other renowned conductors of the period such as Arturo Toscanini, Fritz Reiner, Otto Klemperer, Sir Thomas Beecham, and Eugene Ormandy. She also depicts Phillips's interactions with fellow performers, the orchestra management, and her teacher, the wily and brilliant Carlos Salzedo. Blessed with a nimble wit, Phillips navigated a plethora of challenges, ranging from false conductors' cues to the advances of the debonair Stokowski and others. She remained with the orchestra through some of its most exciting years from 1930 to 1946 and was instrumental in fostering harp performance, commissioning many significant contributions to the literature. _x000B__x000B_This portrait of Phillips's exceptional tenure with the Philadelphia Orchestra also reveals the behind-the-scenes life of a famous orchestra during a period in which Rachmaninoff declared it \"the finest orchestra the world has ever heard.\" Through Phillips's perceptive eyes, readers will watch as Stokowski melds his musicians into a marvelously flexible ensemble; world-class performers reach great heights and make embarrassing flubs; Greta Garbo comes to Philadelphia to observe her lover Leopold Stokowski at work; and the orchestra encounters the novel experience of recording for Walt Disney's Fantasia. A colorful glimpse into a world-class orchestra at the height of its glory, One Woman in a Hundred tells the fascinating story of one woman brave enough and strong enough to overcome historic barriers and pursue her dreams._x000B_
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88 instruments
\"A little boy can't choose which instrument to play, so he decides to try them all\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Homoeroticising Archaic Wind Music: A Rhizomatic Return to Ancient China
This article explores Archaic Wind music (gufeng 古風) and its implications for Sinophone articulations. Gufeng can be categorised as a particular type of music with lyrical, musical, and symbolic references to ancient China that is produced, consumed, and circulated within an online fan community. While the lyrics of gufeng music express a post-loyalist yearning to return to the fictional roots of “Cultural China,” its video adaptations deconstruct the authenticity of such cultural roots in their homoerotic subtext. Exploring the audio-visual texts of the gufeng music, I suggest that it shows a rhizomatic return to ancient China that disorients the routes to the past.
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