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Bethany Lowes Folk Art Halloween $17.95 Haunted lights and spooky sights, ghoulish glowing luminaries, frightful festoons what fun. Halloween has become one of the most popular holidays of the year, with legions of would-be creepy creatures on the lookout for fantastic ideas. And the newest craze is to go old-fashioned, with charmingly nostalgic folk-style costumes, decorations, and other accessories. No one does that better than designer Bethany Lowe in this, the very first book to focus solely on folk art projects for Halloween. She gets into the spirit of the season with 30 sensational projects that range from trick-or-treat cones to a crazy quilt pumpkin pillow. |
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Classic Folk Art Speckles Red $8.48 Designed for Fabri-Quilt, this cotton print fabric is perfect for quilting, apparel and home décor accents. Colors include yellow and red. |
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Classic Folk Art Checkerboard Blue $8.48 Designed for Fabri-Quilt, this cotton print fabric is perfect for quilting, apparel and home décor accents. Colors include shades of blue. |
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Classic Folk Art Speckles Brown $8.48 Designed for Fabri-Quilt, this cotton print fabric is perfect for quilting, apparel and home décor accents. Colors include shades of brown. |
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Classic Folk Art Checkerboard Gold $8.48 Designed for Fabri-Quilt, this cotton print fabric is perfect for quilting, apparel and home décor accents. Colors include gold and red. |
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Classic Folk Art Speckles Olive $8.48 Designed for Fabri-Quilt, this cotton print fabric is perfect for quilting, apparel and home décor accents. Colors include gold and olive. |
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Cowboy Mouth Members: Paul Sanchez, Fred Leblanc, Vance Degeneres, Sonia Tetlow, John Thomas Griffith, Regina Zernay $8.96 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Paul Sanchez is a New Orleans-born and based American guitarist and a singer-songwriter. Sanchez is best known as one of New Orleans finest song writers and was also founding member of the New Orleans band Cowboy Mouth. Sanchez was a guitarist and one of the primary singers and songwriters for the band from 1990 to 2006. Sanchez’s songs have appeared in films and on television and have been performed by various artists such as Darius Rucker, Susan Cowsill, Kevin Griffin and The Eli Young Band, Hootie and the Blowfish, John Boutté, Shamarr Allen, Glen Andrews and Kim Carson. Paul Sanchez was born literally across the street from the Mississippi River and grew up in New Orleans, in the Irish Channel section, a working class Catholic neighborhood where his mother Sylvia was grew up. His father, Joseph Sanchez, was Islenos from Delacroix Island in Louisiana who came to New Orleans as a boy after the flood of ’27. He met Sylvia, fathered eleven children and worked as a longshoreman until his death at 45. Paul was raised by his widowed mother along with ten brothers and sisters. His first musical endeavor was in the New Orleans band The Backbeats, along with Vance DeGeneres, Steve Walters and a drummer he was to encounter again in his career named Fred LeBlanc. He refined his art in the flourishing anti-folk scene during a stint in New York in the late eighties where he befriended artists Michelle Shocked, Brenda Kahn, John S. Hall and Roger Manning. He signed a deal as a solo acoustic performer with CBS records, but the record company underwent management changes and his agreement expired without producing any releases. Sanchez temporarily left the music business and worked as a production assistant on films Sanchez ultimately r… More: |
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Freewheelin’ Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties $22.95 A Freewheelin’ Time is Suze Rotolo’s firsthand, eyewitness, participant-observer account of the immensely creative and fertile years of the 1960s, just before the circus was in full swing and Bob Dylan became the anointed ringmaster. It chronicles the back-story of Greenwich Village in the early days of the folk music explosion, when Dylan was honing his skills and she was in the ring with him.A shy girl from Queens, Suze Rotolo was the daughter of Italian working-class Communists. Growing up at the start of the Cold War and during McCarthyism, she inevitably became an outsider in her neighborhood and at school. Her childhood was turbulent, but Suze found solace in poetry, art, and music. In Washington Square Park, in Greenwich Village, she encountered like-minded friends who were also politically active. Then one hot day in July 1961, Suze met Bob Dylan, a rising young musician, at a folk concert at Riverside Church. She was seventeen, he was twenty; they were young, curious, and inseparable. During the years they were together, Dylan was transformed from an obscure folk singer into an uneasy spokesperson for a generation.Suze Rotolo’s story is rich in character and setting, filled with vivid memories of those tumultuous years of dramatic change and poignantly rising expectations when art, culture, and politics all seemed to be conspiring to bring our country a better, freer, richer, and more equitable life. She writes of her involvement with the civil rights movement and describes the sometimes frustrating experience of being a woman in a male-dominated culture, before women’s liberation changed the rules for the better. And she tells the wonderfully romantic story of her sweet but sometimes wrenching love affair and its eventual collapse under the pressures of growing fame.A Freewheelin’ Time is a vibrant, moving memoir of a hopeful time and place and of a vital subculture at its most creative. It |
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Hanuman’s Tale: The Messages of a Divine Monkey $30 Hanuman, the devoted monkey helper of Rama and Sita, has long been recognized as a popular character in India’s ancient Ramayana epic. But more recently he has also become one of the most beloved and worshiped gods in the Hindu pantheon – enshrined in majestic new temples, but equally present in poster art, advertising, and mass media. Drawing on Sanskrit and vernacular texts, classical iconography and modern TV serials, and extensive fieldwork and interviews, Philip Lutgendorf challenges the academic cliché of Hanuman as a "minor" or "folk" deity by exploring his complex and growing role in South Asian religion and culture. This wide-ranging study examines the historical evolution of Hanuman’s worship, his close association with Shiva and goddesses, his invocation in tantric ritual, his physical immortality and enduring presence in sacred sites, and his appeal to devotees who include scholars, wrestlers, healers, politicians, and middle-class urbanites.Lutgendorf also offers a rich array of entertaining stories not previously available in English: an expanding epic cycle that he christens the "Hanumayana." Arguing that Hanuman’s role as cosmic "middle man" is intimately linked to his embodiment in a charming and provocative simian form, Lutgendorf moves beyond the Indian subcontinent to interrogate the wider human fascination with anthropoid primates as boundary beings and as potent signifiers of both Self and Other. |
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Hanuman’s Tale: The Messages of a Divine Monkey $40.12 Hanuman, the devoted monkey helper of Rama and Sita, has long been recognized as a popular character in India’s ancient Ramayana epic. But more recently he has also become one of the most beloved and worshiped gods in the Hindu pantheon – enshrined in majestic new temples, but equally present in poster art, advertising, and mass media. Drawing on Sanskrit and vernacular texts, classical iconography and modern TV serials, and extensive fieldwork and interviews, Philip Lutgendorf challenges the academic cliché of Hanuman as a "minor" or "folk" deity by exploring his complex and growing role in South Asian religion and culture. This wide-ranging study examines the historical evolution of Hanuman’s worship, his close association with Shiva and goddesses, his invocation in tantric ritual, his physical immortality and enduring presence in sacred sites, and his appeal to devotees who include scholars, wrestlers, healers, politicians, and middle-class urbanites.Lutgendorf also offers a rich array of entertaining stories not previously available in English: an expanding epic cycle that he christens the "Hanumayana." Arguing that Hanuman’s role as cosmic "middle man" is intimately linked to his embodiment in a charming and provocative simian form, Lutgendorf moves beyond the Indian subcontinent to interrogate the wider human fascination with anthropoid primates as boundary beings and as potent signifiers of both Self and Other. |
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Kingdom of Beauty: Mingei and the Politics of Folk Art in Imperial Japan $24.95 A Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia UniversityKingdom of Beauty shows that the discovery of mingei (folk art) by Japanese intellectuals in the 1920s and 1930s was central to the complex process by which Japan became both a modern nation and an imperial world power. Kim Brandt’s account of the mingei movement locates its origins in colonial Korea, where middle-class Japanese artists and collectors discovered that imperialism offered them special opportunities to amass art objects and gain social, cultural, and even political influence. Later, mingei enthusiasts worked with (and against) other groups—such as state officials, fascist ideologues, rival folk art organizations, local artisans, newspaper and magazine editors, and department store managers—to promote their own vision of beautiful prosperity for Japan, Asia, and indeed the world. In tracing the history of mingei activism, Brandt considers not only Yanagi Muneyoshi, Hamada Shōji, Kawai Kanjirō, and other well-known leaders of the folk art movement but also the often overlooked networks of provincial intellectuals, craftspeople, marketers, and shoppers who were just as important to its success. The result of their collective efforts, she makes clear, was the transformation of a once-obscure category of pre-industrial rural artifacts into an icon of modern national style. |
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Norwegian Musicologists: Norwegian Folk-Song Collectors, Norwegian Music Theorists, Christian Leden, Eivind Groven, Hans-J rgen Holman $12.83 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Norwegian Folk-Song Collectors, Norwegian Music Theorists, Christian Leden, Eivind Groven, Hans-Jørgen Holman, Fartein Valen, Ole Mørk Sandvik, Tim Rishton, Henrik Hellstenius, Ludvig Mathias Lindeman, Arne Holen. Excerpt: Christian Leden Christian Leden (born Christian Refsaas ; 17 July 1882 – 19 November 1957) was a Norwegian ethno-musicologist and composer. He was the first person to record film in the northern Arctic . Early years Leden was born in Inderøy , Nord-Trøndelag , Norway. In 1901, he trained in Christiania to be a musician. He studied musicology in Berlin , entering the composer class at Royal Hochschule fur Musik in 1904. While in Germany, he changed his surname from Refsaas to Leden. From 1904 through 1909, he was a church organist in Tromsø . Career Leden was interested in the early music of Greenland’s Inuit . In the spring of 1909, he received travel funds from the Danish Carlsberg fund to go to northern Greenland to study Inuit music on a voyage with the Danish polar scientist Knud Rasmussen . In the autumn of that year, he returned to Europe and worked on the music he had collected. He traveled in Northern Canada in 1911, West Greenland in 1912, and through the Keewatin Region in 1913. On his travels to Greenland and Canada, he collected large amounts of music, including approximately 1000 wax roll recordings. He collected large quantities of crafts with special emphasis on Inuit art . He preserved a significant amount of film and photographs from his expeditions, and he learned the Inuit language . During his fifth Arctic trip, a three-year expedition to the Keewatin Region on the west coast of Hudson Bay , he went to several villages collecting everything he could, from art to everyday objects. Leden cataloged |