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The North Wind & the Sun
\"The cruel North Wind and the kind Sun vie to take the coats from three sisters out on a walk\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Snow Eater
\"A chinook is a warm, dry wind that blows eastward from the Pacific Ocean, over the Rocky Mountains, and across the North American prairie. It can quickly raise temperatures by tens of degrees. Chinook is actually an Indian word meaning `snow eater,' for in a chinook's path, snow rapidly disappears.\" (CRICKET)
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MIYAZAWA KENJI'S SINGING LANDSCAPE: \THE WIND CHILD MATASABURO\
This essay analyzes the story \"Kaze no Matasaburo\" (The wind Child Matasaburo) by Miyazawa Kenji within a theoretical framework of 'landscape in literature'. It represents a part of a larger research projech project called \"Narratology of the Japanese Literary Landscape\", which tries to explore indigenous concepts of landscape description and its function in the modern Japanese novel. Through a detailed critical analysis of Miyazawa Kenji's famous story the study challenges Karatani Kojin's paradigm of 'discovery of landscape' by Japanese writers in the Meiji period. Kenji's poetic style experiments with a variety of onomatopoeia, employing them in a highly original, even idiosyncratic ways. He creates a unique blend of inner/outer landscape that can not be defined by Karatani's \"imported models of landscape description'. Furthermore, this study considers the literary potential of 'oral' and 'tactile' stylistic expression versus more abstract and conceptual modes, tracing the sources of Kenji's rich onomatopoeia to his rich poetic vision and ancient folkloric motifs. 要旨:拙論は、「文学における風景」という視点から、宮沢賢治の『風の又三郎』を分析する。これは、「日本文学の風景における話法」とぃう大きな研究課題であり、このテーマの目的は、風景描写の土着的概念と近代日本の小説における風景描写の役割をさぐることである。拙論は、宮沢賢治の有名な『風あ又三郎』の分析を通して、明治期日本の作家たちによる「風景の発見」という柄谷行人のパラグイムを批判する。賢治は、その詩的文体によって、高度に独創的で特異とさえ言いうる擬声語のさまざまな実験を行っている。彼は、内的ノ外的風景のユニークな融合を成し遂げているが、それは柄谷の「風景描写の舶来のモデル」では説明しきれないものである。ぎらに、拙論では、「口論的」、「触覚的」文体表現が、より抽象的、概念的表現形悠に対してもつ可能性を、賢治の擬声語の豊かな詩的ヴイジョンや古代民間伝承の源にまで遡のほって考察する。
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Between Tradition and Innovation: Transformations in Wind Music in the Slovácko Region since the Early 20th Century
In the Moravian region of Slovácko, wind music occupies a special position, which has been influenced by a number of factors. At the time of its introduction into the rural environment, bringing with it modern contemporary elements, the discourse of authenticity was beginning to grow stronger in the field of ethnographic science. A few decades later, this construct of originality and ancientness became a factor that paradoxically contributed to the development of wind bands in this environment. This study describes the complex relationships between traditional music and its performance and repertoire development in the context of the long-standing discourse of authenticity in Czech folklore studies and the so-called folklore revival movement.
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An Analysis of Haydn Wood’s Mannin Veen as It Relates to Manx Folk Songs and Legends From the Isle of Man
Haydn Wood (1882–1959) was an English composer raised on the Isle of Man. His compositional strengths lay in melodic writing and scoring, and he is best remembered as a composer of British light music. Haydn Wood has also been credited with composing works for wind band, most notably, Mannin Veen: A Manx Tone Poem. Given the lack of research on Haydn Wood, his compositions and his homeland, this article focuses on the transcribed wind work Mannin Veen as it relates to Manx folksongs and legends from the Isle of Man. In this article, comprehensive research on Haydn Wood, The Isle of Man, and Mannin Veen is provided. For the analysis, original source materials are provided that can be used by conductors to better prepare and perform these works.
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The Mountain and the Devil: Fake Lore or Folklore?: A Wonder of the World in South African Children’s Literature
Table Mountain, beneath which nestles South Africa’s “Mother City,” Cape Town, whose history is given briefly, has not featured much in South African children’s literature, although it is mentioned in the epic poem by Portugal’s national poet, Camões, and the adventures of Baron Munchausen. A much-loved exception has been the story of how Table Mountain got its cloud and why its companion, Devil’s Peak, was so named. This article discusses two older versions of this tale alongside more recent books written for children, in which Table Mountain and/or Devil’s Peak play a role.
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Human geographies of sea ice: freeze/thaw processes around Cape Dorset, Nunavut, Canada
Sea ice has been, and continues to be, an integral component of life in the Inuit community of Cape Dorset, Nunavut. Located on an island of the same name off the southwestern coast of Baffin Island, the strong Hudson Strait currents prevent extensive ice formation around the community. Nevertheless, sea ice remains an important travel and hunting platform, enabling access to Baffin Island, hunting and fishing grounds, and nearby communities. With the combined importance, dynamism, and continuous use of this frozen ocean environment, local Inuit elders and hunters have developed a detailed and nuanced understanding of sea ice conditions, freeze/thaw processes, and the influences of winds and currents on ice conditions. Working collaboratively with the community of Cape Dorset since October, 2003, we present the results of 30 semi-directed interviews, 5 sea ice trips, and 2 focus groups to provide a baseline understanding of local freezing processes (near-shore, open water, sea ice thickening, landfast ice, floe edge, and tidal cracks), melting processes (snow melt, water accumulation and drainage, break-up, and cracks/leads), wind influences on sea ice (wind direction and strength affecting sea ice formation, and movement), and current influences on sea ice (tidal variations and current strength affecting sea ice formation, movement, and polynya size/location). Strong emphasis is placed on Inuktitut terminology and spatial delineations of localised ice conditions and features. Therefore, this paper provides insights into local scale ice conditions and dynamics around Cape Dorset that are not captured in regional scale studies of Hudson Bay and/or Hudson Strait. Results have the potential to inform future research efforts on local/regional sea ice monitoring, the relationship between Inuit knowledge, language, and the environment, and addressing community interests through targeted studies.
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Flowing Down Taiwan’s Tamsui River: Towards an Ecomusicology of the Environmental Imagination
The Tamsui River as represented in popular song texts after the 1950s is often not much more than a meeting place for courting or breaking up. The descriptions of the natural phenomena and the river's beauty, as well as descriptions of the embodied sense of inhabiting this specific environment, found in earlier songs are minimized, if not entirely absent. This trend continues in mainstream popular music up to today. Here, Guy draws largely on the theories and concerns of ecocriticism, a relatively young branch of literary criticism, that proponent Cheryl Glotfelty defines simply as \"the study of the relationship between literature and the physical environment\". She also takes the \"Tamsui songs\" (i.e., popular songs whose lyrics reference the Tamsui River) as an entry point into a \"green\" reading of popular music in Taiwan. Moreover, she discusses new ways of understanding the role that musical practices have in shaping human interaction with the environment.
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