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      • Tango Sin Fin

        “Método de Tango” is the first fundamental book series that teaches how to play tango music, published in English and Spanish since 2014 by Tango Sin Fin in Buenos Aires. This book series is the only collection which provides any musician, arranger, composer or ethnomusicologist from around the world a methodological and pedagogical approach to tango language, using academic terms, exercises and musical studies. Each volume is focused on one instrument: violin, bass, bandoneon, piano, flute and guitar. So far, the collection has only been published in Argentina and worldwide rights belong to Tango Sin Fin.

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        The Arts
        February 2022

        "I am Jugoslovenka!"

        Feminist performance politics during and after Yugoslav Socialism

        by Jasmina Tumbas, Amelia Jones, Marsha Meskimmon

        "I am Jugoslovenka" argues that queer-feminist artistic and political resistance were paradoxically enabled by socialist Yugoslavia's unique history of patriarchy and women's emancipation. Spanning performance and conceptual art, video works, film and pop music, lesbian activism and press photos of female snipers in the Yugoslav wars, the book analyses feminist resistance in a range of performative actions that manifest the radical embodiment of Yugoslavia's anti-fascist, transnational and feminist legacies. It covers celebrated and lesser-known artists from the 1970s to today, including Marina Abramovic, Sanja Ivekovic, Vlasta Delimar, Tanja Ostojic, Selma Selman and Helena Janecic, along with music legends Lepa Brena and Esma Redzepova. "I am Jugoslovenka" tells a unique story of women's resistance through the intersection of feminism, socialism and nationalism in East European visual culture.

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        The Candy Guild (1). The Magic Pact

        by Tanja Voosen/ Viktoria Gavrilenko

        The most magical adventure since the discovery of chocolate! Do you believe in magic and miracles? Everyone in the little town of Belony takes magic and miracles for granted – everyone except Elina, who thinks it’s all a load of nonsense. That is, until her nervous neighbour Charlie happens to get hold of a bar of chocolate that has a very strange effect on her. Suddenly Elina is convinced that Charlie has fallen under a spell. Of all people, it’s shy Robin who comes to the girl’s rescue. He is a member of a Candy Guild family – people who have the ability to create magic sweets that will help others. This is how he knows that only the mysterious Candy Guild can lift the curse on Charlie. With a suitcase full of magic sweets, the three of them set out on a dangerous quest. Because not everyone keeps to the pact that magic sweets should only be used to do good… The Candy Guild. The Magic Pact is the first in a new series of magic-fantasy books for children of 9+ - as enchanting as chocolate and as wild as a Christmas cracker!

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        Mafoya and the Finish Line

        by Ayo Oyeku

        Mafoya is an accomplished sprinter but she is tired of being second-best. She hatched a wicked plan and succeeds in beating Amina in the 100-metre dash. Elated by her victory, Mafoya decides to employ the same trick again in the athletic championships but things take an unexpected turn. In the middle of the race, a strange whirlwind sweeps Mafoya away to Musanga Kingdom – the land of talkin animals and birds. Mafoya faces both hostility and friendship as she travel an impossible journey back to the world she knows.

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        Story Story, Story Come

        12 Reimagined Tales From Africa

        by Maïmouna Jallow

        However, the age-old tradition of oral storytelling is on the decline. Rapid urbanisation, the breakdown of the extended family, technology and so on have altered our social fabric. Whilst our daily lives are still peppered with snippets of remembered words of wisdom and proverbs, the reality is that a new generation of Africans have never had the pleasure of listening to a story being told by a storyteller. Story, Story! Story Come! is a contribution to larger efforts to revive storytelling in Africa and beyond. Through a global online contest, Positively African invited African writers, wherever they lived and whatever their age, to write a folktale – either based on an old one, or newly imagined. The challenge was to develop new narratives that speak to issues that are fundamental to Africa’s development in a way that is unconventional but true to our past traditions of folktale and oral storytelling. The stories needed to contain life lessons that are relevant for both young and old, however writers were invited to be as inventive and disruptive as they wished in terms of theme, form, language, characters, imagery and context. The ten winning stories are refreshingly imaginative and tackle a mix of issues. We criss-cross from South Sudan to South Africa, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and Zambia. Some stories offer valuable moral lessons on greed and pride; others celebrate bravery, perseverance and friendship. One story takes us to a real archaeological site in Niger where a young girl imagines the future. In another, African water spirits share a world with a Beyoncé-obsessed teen that is taught a big lesson in humility. We have also included two additional stories, one by author and publishing partner Zukiswa Wanner and another by the editor of the anthology, Maimouna Jallow. One thing that they all have in common is that they speak to issues we face globally today, from an African perspective.

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        Iyaji, the Housegirl

        by Lola Shoneyin

        Six-year-old Iyaji loves going to school in Igede, Benus State. One day, her father tells her she has to go and work as a housegirl in a big house in Lagos. Little IIyaji works as hard as she can but she misses home, her family and her books. Just when Iyaji begins to lose all hope of going back to school, a policewoman follows her home.

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        Do As You Are Told, Baji

        by Lola Shoneyin

        Baji goes to Kwoi in Kaduna State to spend the weekend with Baba, his grandfather. Baba takes Baji to his farm, but soon discovers that Baji does not often do as he is told. As an eventful day on the farm comes to an end, fun-loving Baji has an interesting encounter with a stubborn donkey.

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        The Candy Guild (2). The Lost Recipe

        by Tanja Voosen/ Viktoria Gavrilenko

        Magical sweets and real miracles? Elina has experienced them both in Belony, and now she can hardly wait to dip deeper into the world of the candy crafters. But it’s not long before a new problem arises, because just before Robin’s first candy crafting examination, his magic tool goes bust. Old Mr Snotty knows where they can get help, and he takes Elina and her friends to Bittersweet Avenue. It quickly becomes clear, though, that not all candy crafters are well disposed towards “ungifted” people. There are also rumours about the return of the mysterious Otherwise Society, which has tried once before to bring down the mighty Candy Guild. When Mr Snotty suddenly disappears without a trace, it’s up to Elina, Charlie and Robin to follow the clues he has left behind for them. They soon realize that there is a reason for his disappearance, because the Otherwise Society is looking for something in particular – and Elina, Charlie and Robin have the key to this something in their hands…

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        September 2016

        Ein unvergessliches Weihnachtsfest

        by Gesine Dammel

        Voller Vorfreude werden die Weihnachtsund Adventstage erwartet, und kaum jemand kann sich ihrem Zauber entziehen. Nicht nur für Kinder, sondern auch für die meisten Erwachsenen ist es die schönste Zeit des Jahres. Alle Jahre wieder … Und doch gibt es Feste, die einem in ganz besonderer Erinnerung bleiben – von unvergesslichen Weihnachtserlebnissen erzählen die Autorinnen und Autoren dieses Bandes: von schlittenfahrenden Wunderkerzen in winterlicher Nacht, von schwarzen Weihnachtsmännern in der bayrischen Provinz, von süßen Katastrophen beim Schokofondue und Geschenken, die einen in Staunen versetzen. Heitere und bewegende, komische und traurig-schöne Geschichten von Tanja Dückers, Tatjana Kruse, Christina zu Salm, Herrad Schenk, Franziska Wolffheim, Peter Bichsel, Truman Capote, Eckhart von Hirschhausen, Rafik Schami, Wilhelm Schmid u.v.a.

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        The Arts
        March 2021

        Queer exceptions

        Solo performance in neoliberal times

        by Stephen Greer

        Queer exceptions is a study of contemporary solo performance in the UK and Western Europe that explores the contentious relationship between identity, individuality and neoliberalism. With diverse case studies featuring the work of La Ribot, David Hoyle, Oreet Ashery, Bridget Christie, Tanja Ostojic, Adrian Howells and Nassim Soleimanpour, the book examines the role of singular or 'exceptional' subjects in constructing and challenging assumed notions of communal sociability and togetherness, while drawing fresh insight from the fields of sociology, gender studies and political philosophy to reconsider theatre's attachment to singular lives and experiences. Framed by a detailed exploration of arts festivals as encapsulating the material, entrepreneurial circumstances of contemporary performance-making, this is the first major critical study of solo work since the millennium.

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        September 2017

        Das Fest der Liebe

        Neue Weihnachtsgeschichten

        by Susanne Gretter

        Weihnachten ist das Fest der Liebe – was zu beweisen ist. Indem man es mit der Liebsten auf einer einsamen Berghütte verbringt. Oder – ganz ohne Weihnachtsbaum - unter Palmen. Man lädt die Eltern zu sich nach Hause ein. Oder – natürlich nur den Kindern zuliebe – den geschiedenen Mann. Oder aus purer Nächstenliebe eine Flüchtlingsfamilie? Was geschieht, wenn Mutter und Sohn sich zufällig auf einer Bank vor der Bahnhofsmission wiedertreffen? Weihnachtsliebe – mitmenschlich, christlich, erotisch – treibt seltsame Blüten. Davon wissen die in diesem Band versammelten Autorinnen und Autoren ein Lied zu singen: Friedrich Ani, Antonia Baum, Doris Dörrie, Tanja Dückers, Harald Martenstein, Stefan Moster, Edgar Rai, Daniel Schreiber und viele andere. Fröhlich, melancholisch, liebevoll, heiter und humorvoll: Geschichten über ein Gefühl, das uns an Weihnachten überfällt – und nur schwer zu bändigen ist.

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        September 2021

        Weihnachtskatzen

        Neue Geschichten

        by Gesine Dammel

        Schöne Bescherung, mag so manche Katze denken, wenn wieder einmal Weihnachten vor der Tür steht. Vorbei mit der Ruhe! Doch im Geheimen lieben Katzen Weihnachten, auch wenn sie das nicht immer zugeben wollen. Denn nun beginnt eine spannende Zeit, in der es viel Neues zu entdecken gibt, das wesentlich spannender ist als der Kratzbaum. Von zwei einfallsreichen Freundinnen, die ein gemeinsames Zuhause suchen; von einem wagemutigen Streuner, der das Schlittenfahren entdeckt, und einem wahren Meisterdieb, der auf Beutezug geht; von weisen Katzen, die Schicksal spielen, und einem beleibten Hauskater, mit einer Schwäche für Thunfisch, der das rote Phantom jagt … Davon und von vielem mehr erzählen die hier erstmals veröffentlichten Geschichten von Annette Amrhein, Claire Beyer, Ellen Dunne, Tatjana Kruse, Franziska Wolffheim, Dorette Deutsch, Tanja Dückers, Anja Baumheier und Theresia Walser.

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