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Rhythms, rites and rituals : my life in Japan in two-step and Waltz-time
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Including her survival of Japan's Great Kanto Earthquake, this book is an enthralling account of Dorothy Britton's life, loves and discoveries in an amazingly varied life and career. Bilingual from...
Including her survival of Japan's Great Kanto Earthquake, this book is an enthralling account of Dorothy Britton's life, loves and discoveries in an amazingly varied life and career. Bilingual from birth, she found the immense joy of blending in with peoples of different cultures simply by getting the sound right when speaking their languages to the extent that she herself sounds Japanese. While interviewing Talent Education's Shinichi Suzuki, she realized his peerless 'mother tongue method' for learning the violin was ideal for foreign languages too. While composing music for many documentar
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- by Dorothy Britton
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- Language
- English
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- Kent : Renaissance Books, 2015
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- 1 online resource (291 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9781898823261, 189882326X, 189882312X
- Includes index.
- Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; List of Plates; 1. Rhythms Are What Divide Us; 2. My Mother; 3. My Father; 4. How Marrying Changes My Father's Life; 5. The Great Kanto Earthquake; 6. Hayama; 7. Mother Contacts Her First Japanese Friend; 8. Royal Friends; 9. The Japanese Language; 10. Winters in Yokohama; 11. Father's Sudden Death; 12. England; 13. Bermuda; 14. Mills College, 1943-1945; 15. London, 1945-1949; 16. Innocence and Ignorance; 17. Back in Japan - 1949; 18. Love and Sex; 19. Meeting 'Boy'; Plate section faces; 20. Society in Japan
- 21. Marriage Customs22. Washoku and O-furo; 23. My Royal Neighbours; 24. Two Composers; 25. London and Paris; 26. Harps and Angels; 27. Back to Work in Japan; 28. Dreaming of Elephants; 29. Finding the Brittons; 30. Sea Shells; 31. The 'Katakana Prison' and Mr Suzuki; 32. Poetry; 33. The Island in Between; 34. Marrying 'Boy' - 1968; 35. The Japanese Crane - Bird of Happiness; 36. Comfort and Solace with Ted; Dorothy Britton's Published Works; Index; Back Cover