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The song of Delphine
\"A story of kindness rewarded-- and of finding friends in unexpected places\"--Jacket.
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A song for bear
\"An imaginative story about a bear trying to learn to sing\"--Provided by publisher.
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Juba this, Juba that
An adaptation of the \"traditional 'juba' hand-clapping games [which] originated in Nigeria. The many rhymes and clapping patterns were remembered and passed along as a way of preserving something comforting and familiar from home. In North America, the games were often transformed into work songs by African-American slaves. Juba this, Juba that was among the most popular of these chants and is still a favorite with children today\"--Dust jacket flap.
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Vole and Troll
A clever vole distracts a grumpy, hungry, and musical troll who threatens to eat him by teaching the troll new songs, and in the end they become good friends because two voices are better than one.
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Staging Juli Zeh's Corpus Delicti in the aftermath of a pandemic
In the years following the 2009 publication of Juli Zeh's Corpus Delicti, literary critics classified it in a variety of ways, including as science fiction, futuristic vision, dystopia, negative utopia, and anti-utopia. Discursively situated at the intersection of law and literature, the novel reads like a manifesto for individual freedoms against the ubiquitous expansion of governmental control following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. More than a decade later, Corpus Delicti regained significance when, during the pandemic, the novel experienced a revival and came to be viewed as a polarizing text. The first and more obvious reason is that the message of securing individual freedoms resonated with those who were skeptical of the expansion of governmental control and long-lasting measures to contain the spread of Covid-19. The second and more subtle reason – the focus of this essay – concerns the peculiarities of the fictional world of Corpus Delicti and its embedded aim of conserving the legal status quo.
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The blue songbird
A little blue songbird longs to sing like her sisters. But whenever she tries, she can't get the tune right. Her mother encourages her to leave home and find a song that only she can sing. With courage and tenacity, she travels the world, seeking advice from a crane, an owl, a mean-looking crow, and other birds, hoping they'll lead her to her special song.
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Bowie and Science Fiction / Bowie as Science Fiction
Directed by Mark Romanek, the video returns to Bowie's fascination with science fiction and recalls his brief appearance in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me. The apocalyptic world depicted-which features Bowie singing at the top of a futuristic corporate building before finally jumping to his death at the end-is interspersed with sequences that draw heavily on Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (the backing singers are dressed like the air hostesses on 2001's Pan Am space plane), Chris Marker's La jetée (1962) (the images of Bowie being mind-tortured while wearing a virtual reality headset), and Jean-Luc Godard's film Alphaville (1965) (Bowie's angular, jerky movements at the beginning of the video, which mimic those of characters in corridors in Alphaville who have lost their connection to real space-time gravity).According to Ryan M. Milner, through reappropriation memes can develop a dense and vibrant complexity that is reliant on intertextual connections.[...]the aliases as the chameleon of pop, the Tall Pale Earl and Xavi Moonburst are similar to Bowie's aliases and characters as the chameleon of rock, the Thin White Duke and Ziggy Stardust, respectively.32 Continuing the association of Bowie and science fiction, the popular sci-fi and fantasy role-playing game EarthBound (Nintendo, 1994), which was designed by Shigesato Itoi (a Bowie fan), included the characters \"the Starmen\" and \"Diamond Dog\"-a boss that must be defeated in the final stage of the game.33 Even more amusing is the fact that in EquestriaBound, the My Little Pony hack of EarthBound, Dinky, Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo must also defend their land against the Diamond Dog.34 Bowie has inspired many writers and artists in the world of comics and cartoons.Ziggy's band the Spiders from Mars possibly inspired the decision, as did the Ziggy Stardust-like red \"hair\" that runs across the spider's body.35 In 2013, as a tribute to David Bowie, astronaut commander Chris Hadfield covered a video version of \"Space Oddity,\" playing his guitar and singing while floating aboard the International Space Station; the video was uploaded to YouTube, where it was seen by more than twenty-five million viewers.
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