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A collection of poetry and artwork by author, drummer, yogi, info-geek and general wild man Wolf Murphy.

Using the BeatBox Notation that simply and visually communicates the correct tone and handing for all drums, this book contains 200 pages of blank notation sheets, for drumming students to record lessons and workshops, or create and compose their own rhythms. Each sheet contains a key to the notation for easy and immediate reference. The Introduction contains the complete explanation of the notation as well as individual keys for many standard (and not-so-common) hand drums and percussion instruments. The BeatBox Notation allows easy transposition of rhythms to different instrumentation, and has been successfully used with groups ranging all the way from Primary grade school students to professional musicians. The notation is designed to avoid a number of issues (familiar to students of ethnomusicology) which arise when endeavoring to represent worldbeat polyrhythms in Western musical notation. The BeatBoxsystem does not misrepresent an accented or "pulsed" structure where none is present in the traditional music."

This volume is designed to assist you in taking your exploration of rhythm further, and advancing faster! The precision in attribution of rhythms and orchestrations facilitates further, deeper source research and targeted study, and the website support makes acquisition of foundational materials a click away! Ideal for all purposes from classroom use to expanding your rhythmic pattern vocabulary for drum circle application, this compendium is an invaluable resource for every hand drummer or student of world rhythms.

In completing my master's thesis on the Orlando, Florida Civil Rights Movement, a number of resources were critical to bringing the thesis to a successful conclusion. Chief among these resources were the oral interviews graciously provided by African-American community members. Each interviewee was very frank and forthcoming in their interviews, and each gave permission to use any and all of their interviews in furtherance of conducting research and publishing my work. After considerable revision and exceptional assistance from my advisors, the thesis was completed and was extremely well-received. The aforementioned interviews were integral to the success of the thesis. I am very gratified that the thesis formed the framework for my subsequently published monograph, The Orlando, Florida, Civil Rights Movement: A Case Study in Communication and Cooperation, 1951- 1971. The monograph is available on Amazon and numerous other online retailers, the Orange County Regional History Center, as well as the Orlando Public Library and other institutions as reference material. As noted above, the oral interviews were integral to the success of my master's thesis. However, the parameters of the thesis by necessity dictated that many observations and insights offered in the interviews were excluded. It is my hope that this work will bring to light the full spectrum of amazing insights of the interviewees and thus more firmly and broadly preserve an important oral history of the Orlando, Florida, Civil Rights Movement. I should also mention that the audio recordings of the interviews are available in their entirety for those who wish to listen to them. The links to the interviews are provided The Orlando, Florida, Civil Rights Movement: A Case Study in Communication and Cooperation, 1951-1971 and this work. This work is designed to be a companion piece to The Orlando, Florida, Civil Rights Movement: A Case Study in Communication and Cooperation, 1951-1971. It is my hope that these works together will assist the scholar and layperson alike in developing a better understanding of the Orlando, Florida, Civil Rights Movement and a firm appreciation for those with the courage to positively change their community, especially the pioneering first African-American police officers with the Orlando Police Department. Their courage and service under immensely difficult conditions proved instrumental in furthering the Orlando, Florida, Civil Rights Movement, as prominently noted in the interviews contained herein. -Fred Altensee, M.A.