Sounds of the Sunny Island
Sounds of the Sunny Island

Author: Maher Asaad Baker

Publisher: tredition

Published: 2024-11-15

Total Pages: 97

ISBN-13: 3384421221

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Sounds of the Sunny Island provides a historical overview of music in this rapidly developing city and the impact of immigration on its melodies. Covering folk music to popular tunes, this book reveals the basis of music and relates it to society. Explore how Chinese opera tunes, Malay rhythms, Indian raga, and Western styles evolved to become the Singapore memories of today. With each chapter, the definitive cultural milestones and art movements of the chapter's featured cities are revealed, along with the locals that keep the music scene alive today. Incorporating elements of Traditional and Modern, "Sounds of the Sunny Island" is your gateway whether you are a music freak or a wanderlust. Feel the beat of this gay sunny island and learn about the pulse of the people that from generation to generation continued to beat in music.

Kingdom's Dream
Kingdom's Dream

Author: Iris Gower

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2010-08-03

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 140708383X

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If you like Dilly Court, Rosie Goodwin and Kitty Neale, you will love this atmospheric, mesmerising and heart-wrenching saga from the pen of bestselling author Iris Gower. READERS ARE LOVING KINGDOM'S DREAM! "Totally engrossed from the minute you start reading" - 5 STARS "Excellent read. Another brilliant book from Iris Gower." - 5 STARS "Outstanding" - 5 STARS ********************************************************************************** SECRETS AND LOVE AFFAIRS BRING TRAGEDY IN THEIR WAKE AMIDST THE WELSH HILLS... Lovely Katie Cullen is all alone in the world. Her mother has died, and Swansea is no fit place for a young girl on her own. The navvies who are building the new railway roam the streets on pay day looking for trouble, and the peaceful outskirts are transformed into a shanty town as the silver track wends its way to the town centre... So when Katie meets handsome Bull Beynon, the foreman of the railway builders, she falls in love with him at once and longs to be protected by him. But Bull has his own woman, the spirited Rhiannon... Katie and Rhiannon find that they are caught in a network of deception and deceit as their lives become intertwined...and no good can come from secrets and lies. Kingdom's Dream is the fifth novel in Iris Gower's Firebird series. The saga concludes in Paradise Park. Have you read Firebird, Dream Catcher, Sweet Rosie and Daughters of Rebecca where the story began?