Suddenly They Heard Footsteps: Storytelling for the Twenty-First CenturyCanada’s best-known storyteller, Dan Yashinsky, lives his life as teller and listener, and shows how storytelling can and does create vital connections between individuals, communities and families. In an age of instant messaging, entertainment systems and digital interaction, why is it that more and more people are being drawn to the art of oral storytelling? As Dan Yashinsky, one of Canada’s most well-known and beloved storytellers shows, an old tradition has become the new avant-garde. Storytelling is still very much alive in this digital age: it connects us to each other, to our communities and to our past. In fact, people are as hungry as they've ever been for the wisdom and solace of told stories. But they are also looking for stories that will speak to our post-modern, fractured, apocalyptic age. Suddenly They Heard Footsteps is part memoir, part instruction, part cultural history, and includes tales that Dan has told to wide acclaim. By turns humorous, inspiring, instructive and philosophical, Dan shows us that, like love, stories mean the most the very moment we give them away. |
Contents
Frankie and the Firebird | |
Stories for the Crossroads | |
Hunting and Gathering | |
STORIES | |
Rich and Poor | |
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Suddenly They Heard Footsteps: Storytelling for the Twenty-first Century Dan Yashinsky Limited preview - 2006 |
Suddenly They Heard Footsteps: Storytelling for the Twenty-First Century Dan Yashinsky No preview available - 2005 |
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