Teach and Play African Drums
Featuring six diverse pieces, this book offers a vibrant selection of music from Africa, showcasing traditional djembe drumming, gumboot dancing, and even a Senegalese pop song. It's designed to engage students and inspire them to explore the rich musical heritage of the continent through interactive play and learning.
Featuring six diverse pieces of music from Bali, this book offers an engaging way to introduce students to the rich cultural heritage of the island. The selections include a Balinese warrior dance, a traditional lullaby, rhythmic monkey chanting, and music for shadow-puppet plays, providing a vibrant exploration of Balinese traditions. Ideal for educators, it encourages creativity and participation while celebrating the unique sounds and stories of Balinese culture.
Our families can be the source of great joy, inspiration, sustenance and good examples of mercy and strength. It's equally, painfully true that families can be our greatest source of misery, stagnation, anger and resentment. I'm guessing you know pretty well that families can be inadequate, dysfunctional fountains of pain. For you perhaps the real question is: can families be fixed? Is it possible the same family that turns every birthday, every holiday, maybe every meal into a nightmare can be transformed into a group of compassionate, accepting, sincere, nurturing loved ones? It can happen, yes. Whether or not it will happen depends on your willingness to understand why they act as they do, to engage them, to persist in being part of their lives and, above all, to let yourself be empowered by what you're about to learn and do as you move through the process described in this book to fix your family.
Featuring six diverse pieces, this collection showcases the vibrant musical landscape of Brazil, including traditional Carnival tunes, samba reggae, and even a Paul Simon song. Designed to engage students, it encourages them to explore and enjoy the rhythms of samba through play and performance.
"A personal account of one man’s confrontation with colonization that illuminates the philosophy and values of a First Nation threatened by the Trans Mountain pipeline. It Stops Here is the story of the spiritual, cultural, and political resurgence of a nation taking action to reclaim their lands, waters, law, and food systems in face of colonization. The book recounts the intergenerational struggle of the Tsleil-Waututh to overcome the harms of colonization and the powerful stance they have taken against the expansion of the Trans Mountain Pipeline—a fossil fuel megaproject that would triple the capacity of tar sands bitumen piped to tidewater on their unceded territory and result in a sevenfold increase in oil tankers moving through their waters. The book provides a firsthand account of this resurgence as told by one of the most prominent leaders of the widespread opposition to the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion—Rueben George of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation. He has devoted more than a decade of his life to fighting this project and shares stories about his family’s deep ancestral connections to these waters that have provided the Tsleil-Waututh with a rich abundance of foods and medicines since time immemorial. Despite the systematic attempts at cultural genocide enacted by the colonial state, Rueben recounts how key leaders of the community, such as his grandfather, Chief Dan George, always taught the younger generations to be proud of who they were and to remember the importance of their connection to the inlet. Part memoir, part call to action, It Stops Here urges policy makers to prioritize sacred territory over oil profits and insists that colonial Canada change its perspective from bending natural resources to their will to respecting this territory and those who inhabit it."-- Provided by publisher