{"product_id":"ringing-bells-in-malta-9781524546014","title":"Ringing Bells in Malta","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Otto Henry\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Xlibris\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Xlibris\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: History \u0026amp; Criticism - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA musical scholar is challenged to find and explore an area different from\u003cbr\u003e his colleagues. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e During the summer of 1972, Dr. Otto Henry, a musicologist in his third\u003cbr\u003e year at East Carolina University, accepts an invitation on the spur of the moment, \u003cbr\u003e to accompany some old anthropologist friends from Tulane University, to the \u003cbr\u003e amazing little Mediterranean island of Malta. His friends have just completed\u003cbr\u003e a definitive study of Maltese folk music. However, he is encouraged to find an \u003cbr\u003e area of his own. And to stay out of the library!\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e After a few false starts, Henry accidently discovers the significance of the \u003cbr\u003e ubiquitous church bells that ring from their stone towers all day long and part\u003cbr\u003e of the night. Bells that celebrate the time of day, the season, religious services and occasions; bells that, with their individual tones, rhythms and colors, musically \u003cbr\u003e mark off and enhance the times, the days and the seasons of Maltese life. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e And then, as it turns out, their passing. Henry's daily field notes capture \u003cbr\u003e the wonder and majesty of these huge bronze implements, some of which have\u003cbr\u003e been melted and re-cast as cannons and then back into bells. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Then there are those who ring the bells, a special lot, sometimes a little apart\u003cbr\u003e and distant from ordinary folk, but people who are always glad to help explain \u003cbr\u003e their lives and duties to a strange inglese with a beard.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46476342952087,"sku":"9781524546014","price":2722.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781524546014.jpg?v=1766280859","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/ringing-bells-in-malta-9781524546014","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}