Alexander Stewart – författare

Häftad, Engelska, 2007

442 kr

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The received wisdom of popular jazz history is that the era of the big band was the 1930s and '40s, when swing was at its height. But as practicing jazz musicians know, even though big bands lost the spotlight once the bebop era began, they never really disappeared. "Making the Scene" challenges conventional jazz historiography by demonstrating the vital role of big bands in the ongoing development of jazz. Alex Stewart describes how jazz musicians have found big bands valuable. He explores the rich 'rehearsal band' scene in New York and the rise of repertory orchestras. "Making the Scene" combines historical research, ethnography, and participant observation with musical analysis, ethnic studies, and gender theory, dismantling stereotypical views of the big band.

Making the Scene

Contemporary New York City Big Band Jazz

E-bok

PDF, Engelska, 2007

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The received wisdom of popular jazz history is that the era of the big band was the 1930s and ''40s, when swing was at its height. But as practicing jazz musicians know, even though big bands lost the spotlight once the bebop era began, they never really disappeared. Making the Scene challenges conventional jazz historiography by demonstrating the vital role of big bands in the ongoing development of jazz. Alex Stewart describes how jazz musicians have found big bands valuable. He explores the rich "rehearsal band" scene in New York and the rise of repertory orchestras. Making the Scene combines historical research, ethnography, and participant observation with musical analysis, ethnic studies, and gender theory, dismantling stereotypical views of the big band.

Michael C. Brose, Darren Byler, Rahile Dawut, Ge Caixia, Guangtian Ha, Rachel Harris, Wai Weng Hew, Maria Jaschok, Mu Qian, Francesca Rosati, Shui Jingjun, Elke Spiessens, Alexander Stewart, Su Min, Thomas White, Yang Yang, Ruslan Yusupov, Rachel Harris, Guangtian Ha, Maria Jaschok - Ethnographies of Islam in China, Häftad

Ethnographies of Islam in China

AvMichael C. Brose,Darren Bylerm. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

294 kr

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In the late 1970s Islam regained its force by generating novel forms of piety and forging new paths in politics throughout the world, including China. The Islamic revival in China, which came to fruition in the 2000s and the 2010s, prompted increases in government suppression but also intriguing resonances with the broader Muslim world—from influential theoretical and political contestations over Muslim women’s status, the popularization of mass media and the appearance of new patterns of consumption, to increases in transnational Muslim migration. Although China does not belong to the "Islamic world" as it is conventionally understood, China’s Muslims have strengthened and expanded their global connections and impact. Such significant shifts in Chinese Muslim life have received scant scholarly attention until now. With contributions from a wide variety of scholars—all sharing a commitment to the value of the ethnographic approach—this volume provides the first comprehensive account of China’s Islamic revival since the 1980s as the country struggled to recover from the wreckage of the Cultural Revolution. The authors show the multifarious nature of China’s Islam revival, which defies any reductive portrayal that paints it as a unified development motivated by a common ideology, and demonstrate how it was embedded in China’s broader economic transition. Most importantly, they trace the historical genealogies and sociopolitical conditions that undergird the crackdown on Muslim life across China, confronting head-on the difficulties of working with Muslims—Uyghur Muslims in particular—at a time of intense religious oppression, intellectual censorship, and intrusive surveillance technology. With chapters on both Hui and Uyghur Muslims, this book also traverses boundaries that often separate studies of these two groups, and illustrates with great clarity the value of disciplinary and methodological border-crossing. As such, Ethnographies of Islam in China is essential reading for those interested in Islam’s complexity in contemporary China and its broader relevance to the Muslim world and the changing nature of Chinese society seen through the prism of religion.

Elements of Gaelic Grammar

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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Elements of Gaelic Grammar

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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Scotish Gaël; or, Celtic Manners, as Preserved Among the Highlanders

Being an Historical and De

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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Scotish Gaël; or, Celtic Manners, as Preserved Among the Highlanders

Being an Historical and De

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'Twixt Ben Nevis and Glencoe

The Natural History, Legends, and Folk-lore of The West Highlands

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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'Twixt Ben Nevis and Glencoe

The Natural History, Legends, and Folk-lore of The West Highlands

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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Elements of Gaelic Grammar

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Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

385 kr

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Elements of Gaelic Grammar

In Four Parts

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

242 kr

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Scotish Gaël; or, Celtic Manners, as Preserved Among the Highlanders

Being an Historical and Descriptive Account of the Inhabitants, Antiquities, and National Peculiarities of Scotland; More Particularly of the Northern, or Gaëlic Parts of the Countr

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

442 kr

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Our Temperaments

Their Study and Their Teaching: A Popular Outline

AvWilliam Robertson,Alexander Stewart

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

456 kr

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Works of William Robertson

Historical Disquisition Concerning the Knowledge Which the Ancients Had of India; and the Progress of Trade With That Country Prior to Discovery of the Passage to It by the Cape of Good Hope

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

441 kr

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Elements of Galic Grammar

In Four Parts: I. of Pronunciation and Orthography; II. of the Parts of S

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

370 kr

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Our Temperaments

Their Study and Their Teaching: A Popular Outline

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

346 kr

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Scotish Gaël; or, Celtic Manners, as Preserved Among the Highlanders

Being an Historical and Descriptive Account of the Inhabitants, Antiquities, and National Peculiarities of Scotland; More Particularly of the Northern, or Gaëlic Parts of the Countr

AvWilliam Robertson,Alexander Stewart

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

332 kr

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Works of William Robertson

Historical Disquisition Concerning the Knowledge Which the Ancients Had of India; and the Progress of Trade With That Country Prior to Discovery of the Passage to It by the Cape of Good Hope

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

313 kr

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Elements of Galic Grammar

In Four Parts: I. of Pronunciation and Orthography; II. of the Parts of S

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

214 kr

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Nether Lochaber

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

285 kr

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Nether Lochaber

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

398 kr

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Dog-Watch Meetings

A Revival on a Tramp Steamer

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

373 kr

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Dog-Watch Meetings

A Revival on a Tramp Steamer

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

235 kr

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Nether Lochaber

The Natural History, Legends, and Folk-lore of the West Highlands (Cram Edition)

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

371 kr

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Life of Alexander Stewart

Prisoner of Napoleon and Preacher of the Gospel

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

1 557 kr

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Originally published in 1948, this book is of a remarkable gentleman, Alexander Stewart, who was born in Kirkaldy, Fifeshire, in 1790, and died in 1874. In middle life he wrote for his children an account of his adventurous youth, when he ran away to sea, was captured by the French, and spent some ten years as a prisoner. On returning home, he took to teaching, but then came a compelling inner call to the Christian ministry, and for the remainder of his life he preached the gospel with characteristic vigour and courage.Sir P. Malcolm Stewart, his grandson, in his Preface speaks of his “sense of pride in Alexander Stewart’s patience, endurance, and determination, in his great physical and moral courage, and his fight for freedom whether in prison or in the ministry.”“The style of writing,” says Alexander Stewart, “which I have adopted is that of unadorned narrative,” and such a story needed no external embellishments. His early narrative is given in extenso; the later portion is taken and abridged from his diary. Altogether it is a remarkable addition to the corpus of memoirs of the Napoleonic era.This book is a re-issue originally published in 1948. The language used and views portrayed are a reflection of its era and no offence is meant by the Publishers to any reader by this re-publication.

Life of Alexander Stewart

Prisoner of Napoleon and Preacher of the Gospel

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

514 kr

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Originally published in 1948, this book is of a remarkable gentleman, Alexander Stewart, who was born in Kirkaldy, Fifeshire, in 1790, and died in 1874. In middle life he wrote for his children an account of his adventurous youth, when he ran away to sea, was captured by the French, and spent some ten years as a prisoner. On returning home, he took to teaching, but then came a compelling inner call to the Christian ministry, and for the remainder of his life he preached the gospel with characteristic vigour and courage.Sir P. Malcolm Stewart, his grandson, in his Preface speaks of his “sense of pride in Alexander Stewart’s patience, endurance, and determination, in his great physical and moral courage, and his fight for freedom whether in prison or in the ministry.”“The style of writing,” says Alexander Stewart, “which I have adopted is that of unadorned narrative,” and such a story needed no external embellishments. His early narrative is given in extenso; the later portion is taken and abridged from his diary. Altogether it is a remarkable addition to the corpus of memoirs of the Napoleonic era.This book is a re-issue originally published in 1948. The language used and views portrayed are a reflection of its era and no offence is meant by the Publishers to any reader by this re-publication.

Life of Alexander Stewart

Prisoner of Napoleon and Preacher of the Gospel

E-bok

PDF, Engelska, 2024

605 kr

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Originally published in 1948, this book is of a remarkable gentleman, Alexander Stewart, who was born in Kirkaldy, Fifeshire, in 1790, and died in 1874. In middle life he wrote for his children an account of his adventurous youth, when he ran away to sea, was captured by the French, and spent some ten years as a prisoner. On returning home, he took to teaching, but then came a compelling inner call to the Christian ministry, and for the remainder of his life he preached the gospel with characteristic vigour and courage.

Sir P. Malcolm Stewart, his grandson, in his Preface speaks of his â€œsense of pride in Alexander Stewartâ€™s patience, endurance, and determination, in his great physical and moral courage, and his fight for freedom whether in prison or in the ministry.â€

â€œThe style of writing,â€ says Alexander Stewart, â€œwhich I have adopted is that of unadorned narrative,â€ and such a story needed no external embellishments. His early narrative is given in extenso; the later portion is taken and abridged from his diary. Altogether it is a remarkable addition to the corpus of memoirs of the Napoleonic era.

This book is a re-issue originally published in 1948. The language used and views portrayed are a reflection of its era and no offence is meant by the Publishers to any reader by this re-publication.

Life of Alexander Stewart

Prisoner of Napoleon and Preacher of the Gospel