This well researched volume tells the story of music education in Japan and of the wind band contest organized by the All-Japan Band Association. Identified here for the first time as the world’s largest musical competition, it attracts 14,000 bands and well over 500,000 competitors. The book’s insightful contribution to our understanding of both music and education chronicles music learning in Japanese schools and communities. It examines the contest from a range of perspectives, includin...

Music has long played a prominent role in cultural diplomacy, but until now no resource has comparatively examined policies that shape how non-western countries use music for international relations. Ethnomusicology and Cultural Diplomacy, edited by scholars David G. Hebert and Jonathan McCollum, demonstrates music's role in international relations worldwide. Specifically, this book offers "insider" views from expert contributors writing about music as a part of cultural diplomacy initiati...

This book outlines a philosophy of music education that is responsive to the age of artificial intelligence. Against the background of AI's challenges to human modes of production, the authors demonstrate how music education can become a tool for selfdiscovery in this transformative era. Taking the approach of a dialogue between Chinese and Western perspectives, the book addresses the relationships between the social functions of music education and individual development in different hist...

Historical ethnomusicology is increasingly acknowledged as a significant emerging subfield of ethnomusicology due to the fact that historical research requires a different set of theories and methods than studies of contemporary practices and many historiographic techniques are rapidly transforming as a result of new technologies. In 2005, Bruno Nettl observed that “the term ‘historical ethnomusicology’ has begun to appear in programs of conferences and in publications” (Nettl 2005, 274), ...

This Element demonstrates how a combination of stimulated recall and collaborative autoethnographic strategies can be applied to artistic and scholarly work at the intersection of ethnomusicology and practice-led-research. The authors relate recently collected material from fieldwork in Vietnam to the long-term method development within the Vietnamese/Swedish group The Six Tones, of which three authors are the founding members. The discussion centers around the inter-subjective forms of st...

World Music Pedagogy, Volume VII: Teaching World Music in Higher Education addresses a pedagogical pathway of varied strategies for teaching world music in higher education, offering concrete means for diversifying undergraduate studies through world music culture courses. While the first six volumes in this series have detailed theoretical and applied principles of World Music Pedagogy within K-12 public schools and broader communities, this seventh volume is chiefly concerned wi...

All the basics of French--fast and easy!Whether you are planning a vacation, adding a valuable second language to your resume, or simply brushing up on your skills, The Everything Essential French Book is your perfect introduction to the French language. With easy-to-follow instructions and simple explanations, this portable guide covers the most important basics, including:The French alphabet, accents, and translation.Common French phrases and gree...

Shakespeare’s plays explore a staggering range of political topics, from the nature of tyranny, to the practical effects of Christianity on politics and the family, to the meaning and practice of statesmanship. From great statesmen like Burke and Lincoln to the American frontiersman sitting by his rustic fire, those wrestling with the problems of the human soul and its confrontation with a puzzling world of political peril and promise have long considered these plays a source of political ...

Who Watered Down Baptism? challenges one of the most widely accepted assumptions in modern Christianity—that baptism is optional, merely symbolic, or secondary to salvation.Drawing directly from Scripture, Ryan Hebert demonstrates that baptism is inseparably connected to the gospel itself: death, burial, and resurrection with Christ. From the preaching of John the Baptist to the words of Jesus, to the consistent practice of the early church, baptism is never presen...

David Cloverfield avait eu la peur de sa vie. Il serait possible qu'il rate ce numéro comme d'autres magiciens l'avaient raté avant lui. Selon la légende, certains incidents s'étaient produits. Autrefois... Au temps du Grand Guignol, au moment où on commençait à jouer avec les découvertes scientifiques, les magiciens exécutaient ce genre de tour avec des objets inertes ou... des victimes consentantes. Lui, il s'était attaqué à du monumental. Des objets d'une taille aussi imposante que la T...

O Financeiramente revela um caminho que precisa ser seguido por todos aqueles que têm o desejo ardente de crescer em mentalidade, conhecimento econômico e estratégico no universo financeiro para alcançar resultados exponenciais de riqueza e felicidade. São 28 passos desenvolvidos por 28 homens e mulheres que atuam nesse mercado e na área de comportamento humano. Você poderá se conectar e aprender com cada um deles em uma verdadeira imersão que irá transformar sua vida, financeiramente fala...

Simply entitled Celine, this is the long-awaited, authorized biography of Celine Dion, the rags-to-riches story of a woman who has become the leading recording artist in the world.First published in French in Quebec in December 1997, Celine has sold in excess of 120,000 copies in Quebec alone. A French-language edition will be released in France this fall, to coincide with the release of a new French album.Celine Dion is one of the world's best-loved and b...