Yoruba in Diaspora
Yoruba in Diaspora

Author: H. Harris

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2006-09-16

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 0230601049

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The Nigerian diaspora is now world-wide, and when Yoruba travel, they take with them their religious organizations. As a member of the Cherubim and Seraphim church in London for over thirty years, anthropologist Hermione Harris explores a world of prayer, spirit possession, and divination through dreams and visions.

Riflemen Form
Riflemen Form

Author: Ian F. W. Beckett

Publisher: Pen and Sword

Published: 2007-07-30

Total Pages: 375

ISBN-13: 1844156125

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Lt.-Gen. Sir Garnet Wolseley commented that history would record the formation of the Volunteers Movement as one of the most remarkable events in the century. In this study of the Rifle Volunteer Movement, the author Ian Beckett has drawn from a wide range of primary source material such as official, regimental, local and private repositories. He has been able to put into perspective the Movement within the structure of the Victorian and Edwardian social, political and military affairs from its formation in 1859 to its absorption in the Territorial Force in 1908.

The Trombone
The Trombone

Author: Trevor Herbert

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 9780300100952

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This is the first comprehensive study of the trombone in English. It covers the instrument, its repertoire, the way it has been played, and the social, cultural, and aesthetic contexts within which it has developed. The book explores the origins of the instrument, its invention in the fifteenth century, and its story up to modern times, also revealing hidden aspects of the trombone in different eras and countries. The book looks not only at the trombone within classical music but also at its place in jazz, popular music, popular religion, and light music. Trevor Herbert examines each century of the trombone's development and details the fundamental impact of jazz on the modern trombone. By the late twentieth century, he shows, jazz techniques had filtered into the performance idioms of almost all styles of music and transformed ideas about virtuosity and lyricism in trombone playing.

The Myth of the 'Islamic' Headscarf
The Myth of the 'Islamic' Headscarf

Author: Omar Hussein Ibrahim

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2019-09-11

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 0244517681

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A book containing the fullest coverage as to why Islam does not oblige Muslim women to cover their hair. Compiled by Omar Hussein Ibrahim, based in London, using the best academic material and press commentary available today.