When The Drummers Were Women: A Spiritual History of Rhythm
Title | When The Drummers Were Women: A Spiritual History of Rhythm PDF eBook |
Author | Layne Redmond |
Publisher | Echo Point Books & Media, LLC |
Total Pages | 582 |
Release | 2021-08-05 |
Genre | History |
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For millennia, the sacred drummers of pre-Christian Mediterranean and western Asia were women. In this inspiring book, Layne Redmond, herself a renowned drummer, tells their history. Artistic representations reveal that female frame drummers carried the spiritual traditions of many of the earliest recorded civilizations. During those ancient times, the drummer-priestesses held the keys to experience of the divine through rhythm. They were at the center of the goddess worship of matriarchal societies until the ascendance of patriarchal cultures and the loss of drumming as a spiritual technology. With wisdom and passion, Redmond chronicles our species’ deep connection to the drum, our rich heritage of inseparable spirituality and music, and the modern-day women reclaiming it. This book encourages readers—both women and men—to reestablish rhythmic links with themselves, nature, and other people through the power of drumming. Redmond illustrates her message with an extensive collection of images gathered during ten years of research and travel. Woven throughout the book are strands of ancient ritual and mythology, personal stories, and scientific evidence of the benefits of drumming. It is at once a history, a memoir, and a resounding call for spiritual and social renewal.
Sacred Drumming
Title | Sacred Drumming PDF eBook |
Author | Steven Ash |
Publisher | Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. |
Total Pages | 148 |
Release | 2004-08 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780806926575 |
Take a guided tour from a writer who grew up and studied on Native American reservations and join those throughout the world—from Siberia to South America, Australia to Africa—who venerate the drum for its healing and celebratory powers. Through painting, cleansing, blessing, smudging, dedicating, chanting, and performing, you’ll find your own special beat, transforming the drum into a medicinal tool. Become one with a purchased or homemade instrument. Draw on the knowledge of Native American and other cultures to drum away fear, purify, establish a sacred space, and reach into areas of the consciousness that would otherwise be inaccessible. Extra special bonus: a CD with more than an hour’s worth of music for a Sacred Directions ceremony, meditation, trance, and more.
Drumming at the Edge of Magic
Title | Drumming at the Edge of Magic PDF eBook |
Author | Mickey Hart |
Publisher | Harper San Francisco |
Total Pages | 263 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780062503749 |
Explores the role of drums, rattles, and gongs in human societies revealing the primal hypnotic power of these instruments
The Healing Power of the Drum
Title | The Healing Power of the Drum PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Lawrence Friedman |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 190 |
Release | 2020-10 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780578760131 |
In The Healing Power of the Drum psychotherapist and drum facilitator, Robert Lawrence Friedman weaves an extraordinary tapestry of personal experience, fascinating anecdotes, and compelling research, demonstrating the hand drum's capacity to provide significant health benefits for everyone. This breakthrough book examines the use of hand drums in treating at-risk adolescents, stress-out employees, veterans, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Autism and more. Find joy and self-expression in The Healing Power of the Drum.
The Cambridge Companion to the Drum Kit
Title | The Cambridge Companion to the Drum Kit PDF eBook |
Author | Matt Brennan |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 283 |
Release | 2021-06-17 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1108489834 |
An approachable introduction to the drum kit, drummers, and drumming, and the key debates surrounding the instrument and its players.
Let the Drum Speak
Title | Let the Drum Speak PDF eBook |
Author | Linda Lay Shuler |
Publisher | Lake Union Publishing |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013-07-23 |
Genre | Indians of North America |
ISBN | 9781477807507 |
A novel on an Indian shaman in 13th Century America. She is Antelope, a blue-eyed Anazasi who becomes the object of desire and fear of the ruler of the City of the Great Sun. He desires her because she is beautiful and fears her because of her powers to communicate with spirits and foretell the future. By the author of She Who Remembers.
Rhythm is The Cure
Title | Rhythm is The Cure PDF eBook |
Author | ALESSANDRA BELLONI |
Publisher | Mel Bay Publications |
Total Pages | 112 |
Release | 2015-07-24 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1619115174 |
This book with online video (111 min.) will introduce the reader to the tambourine and folk dance tradition of Southern Italy, the Tarantella. Students will learn the techniques of Tarantella tambourine playing as well as the history of this ancient tradition. This book reflects 25 years of field research and performance by the author, Alessandra Belloni