Sentences with word «folkways»

The distribution of cannabis was still stuck in the old street - dealer folkways of pot brokers, burner cell phones, and sketchy handoffs of drugs and cash.

Yet Cavicchi, who scoured the Library of Congress and the archives of the Smithsonian Folkways record label to compile the exhibit, found his personal interest piqued the most by the tales of Muslim punks.

Schwartz made One, Two, Three and a Zing Zing Zing for Folkways Records four years ago, but it was picked up first by teachers and playground instructors and is used in teachers» courses at Bucknell, Teachers College at Columbia, New York University and other colleges.

The Anthology of American Folk Music is a six - album compilation released in 1952 by Folkways Records (catalogue FP 251, FP 252, and FP 253), comprising Offers news, comment and features about the British arts scene with sections on books, films, music, theatre, art and architecture.

Another specific reference point for this project was «Sounds of a Tropical Rainforest», an album produced in 1951 by the US label Folkways Records using in part staged field recordings from nature.

We think of the Easter throngs crowding the churches to sing, «Christ the Lord is ris»n today» — many of them there merely because church is the place prescribed by American folkways for the display of spring finery.

Each of the six 75 - square - meter tents is dedicated to a specific Laotian hill tribe which still inhabits the surrounding mountains, with its distinctive ethnic pattern adorning individual tent canopies and its colours, motifs and textiles in the interior lending a closer understanding of indigenous folkways.

In that same year 1964, Folkways Music released History of the Soviet Union in Ballad and Song: Vol.

The newcomers see no virtue in honoring the institution's hidebound folkways; that's what got us into this mess in the first place.

Recordings with helpful explanatory notes can be purchased from Folkways (P431, with notes by Alain Danielou) and from Angel (35468 and 35283, with notes by Yehudi Menuhin).

Buddhism is a complex belief system with a longer history than western science; and the ability to incorporate folkways and local religions, into a highly literate and esoteric specialist practice.

In this field William Graham Sumner's old dictum that «stateways can not change folkways» remained the basic preconception.

While she still retains her retro style — long nails, big brown hair bow — she takes pride in mastering D.C.'s political folkways, scoring spots on the education and finance committees and the House delegation to NATO.

They define school culture as an «underground flow of feelings and folkways [wending] its way within schools» in the form of vision and values, beliefs and assumptions, rituals and ceremonies, history and stories, and physical symbols.

After a rousing weekend in New Orleans, a center for Louisiana Voodoo spiritual folkways, I came back home to try out my own voodoo with Full Mojo Rampage.

[1] The two worked closely together on many of Cage's pieces, both works for piano and electronic pieces, including for the Smithsonian Folkways album: Indeterminacy: New Aspect of Form in Instrumental and Electronic Music (1959).

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Written in poetic language and saturated with the flavors, smells, and folkways of America's southwest, this captivating tall tale brings life to an engaging, original character, whose love and concern for her neighbors fills the story with joy.

Nipmuck flute maker and musician Hawk Henries; Algonkian storytelling and winter fashions with Indian Doctress Molly Geet; Native American food and craft demonstrations (STURBRIDGE, MA)- Feb. 22, 2013: Some of New England's most noted authorities on Native American folkways, food, music, and crafts will gather at Old Sturbridge Village March 2 - 3 for the museum's first annual Native...

The session will focus specifically on «hot spots» where scientific interests overlap with indigenous folkways, with development projects and with security issues.

In Japanese Music and Musical Instruments, by William P. Malm, there is a brief chapter on Buddhist religious music, and a little information can be gleaned from the notes accompanying recordings of Japanese music by Folkways (FR8980), but the study of music in the Buddhism of China, Japan, Korea, and Tibet has not yet been written.

The cover motive is in tribute to Ronald Clyne, the seminal designer of album sleeves for the US - label Folkways Records.

vitrine with five copies of the record «Sounds Of A Tropical Rainforest in America» Folkways Records, New York, 1960 installation view Antiquariat Buchholz, Köln 2007

He considers these small organizations as tribes (with a nod to Seth Godin), analyzes their cultures through the concept of «folkways» and thinks about their rituals.

By awakening previously dormant assets like human attention or latent computer memory, the potential for cryptocurrencies to profoundly change our mores and folkways is at the heart of this emerging technology.

Every people has its culture, whether primitive or advanced, and this culture is discerned in the folkways and moral standards, forms of family life, economic enterprises, laws and modes of dealing with lawbreakers, forms of recreation, religion, art, education, science, and philosophy that constitute the social aspects of human existence as contrasted with the bare biological fact of living.

Hence, only by revealing his own views of his place in the cosmos - which are religious as even such nontraditionalists as Spinoza and Einstein understood - can Schlesinger argue for the authority of «History,» or «our folkways, traditions, standards.»

And the essence of revivalism was never the size of the meeting, the number of «decisions,» the folkways of the time, nor the passion of the preacher.

The folkways and loyalties in the life of a congregation change slowly, but there can be new life in a congregation.

One is the natural love humans develop for the place and polity they were raised in, for its folkways and so forth.

To be wise is to be instructed in the folkways of the grandmothers and grandfathers.

A large portion of Budapest's population consisted of families from the non «Hungarian provinces, and as a whole the country's folkways were so exotic, with traces of oriental ancestry (and its language being indisputably Asian), that in Europe Hungary was conventionally thought of as having one foot in the West and one foot in East.

In Polish, Greek, Portuguese, German and French social clubs and organizations the old languages, stories, memories and folkways are nurtured; there people can meet and send their children to learn of the cultural and ethnic history of their forebears.

The grant agreement asks senior administrators at the seminary to point out the folkways of the school's culture.

Mr. X begins drinking at about sixteen and one - half when he becomes a part of a group for whom drinking is a folkway.

My first exposure to the folkways of Afghanistan came right after my arrival, when the father of the student who had sold me on the idea of working there greeted me, and, having noticed my then wife Connie's pregnancy, asked if it was true that Americans could make male babies at will.

It's about the traditions of that region, the foodways and the folkways, and about working within view of what has been done for generations and trying to find new and exciting ways to express it.»

Jan 04,2016... Folkways are always getting ahead of legal codes, especially codes that restrict such ubiquitous hum...

Today, much of the effort to return to less - interventionist births, as well as the folkways and traditions of new - mom support, is being led by the same class of women, who have the means to pay the costs of outside - the - hospital care and are driven by a vision of birth as empowering.

Within minutes of Monday's stunning announcement that the Manhattan Democrat was found guilty of all counts, the speculation began as to what — if any — effect it would have on the culture and folkways of the Capitol, an environment that has been once again placed in the national spotlight as an ethical brownfield.

May 1, 2018 • Smithsonian Folkways, known for its broad - based music catalog, wants to surprise you with sounds you didn't even know existed.

Unlike European modernists who understood the «primitive» within a colonial framework that placed Europe at the top of an imagined scale of development, Johnson's primitivism had more to do with «the community values and folkways of all marginalized peoples.

According to catalogue essayist Leslie Umberger, «Like many traditional practices and folkways, his work functions to keep people alive in his memory and map his own existence in relation to theirs.

«Secrets Behind Closed Doors» is Susan Martinez's first solo exhibition, which demonstrates American family stories, daily life, landscapes, and folkways.