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Martin Scorsese in 2024.. After Raging Bull in the early 1980s, Martin Scorsese considered quitting filmmaking, wanting to travel to Rome to shoot a series of television documentaries on the lives of different saints: "I literally thought it would be my last film," said Scorsese in 2016, referring to Raging Bull.
The word jihad does not always mean 'holy war'; its literal meaning in Arabic is 'struggle'. While there is such a thing as jihad by the sword, jihad can be any spiritual or moral effort or struggle, [257] [258] [259] such as seeking knowledge, putting others before oneself, and inviting others to Islam.
The 3rd Street Saints, a street gang in the Saints Row series of video games; Saint, an alien race in the Mahoromatic manga and anime series; One half of Boxers and Saints, graphic novels by Gene Luen Yang; Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints, 2024 docudrama series
The docudrama will premiere in two parts, with the first four episodes set … Martin Scorsese Partners With Fox Nation for New Docudrama ‘Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints’ Skip to main ...
Min'yō, traditional Japanese folk song, must be distinguished from what the Japanese call fōku songu, from the English phrase 'folk song'. These are Western-style songs, often guitar-accompanied and generally recently composed, of the type associated with Bob Dylan, Peter, Paul and Mary and the like, and popular in Japan since the 1960s.
Rōkyoku (浪曲; also historically called naniwa-bushi, 浪花節) is a genre of traditional Japanese narrative singing. This genre is performed by a singer accompanied by a shamisen , rōkyoku became very popular in Japan during the first half of the 20th century.
Shinto music is the ceremonial and festive music of Shinto (神道), the indigenous religion of Japan. Its origin myth is the erotic dance of Ame-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto which lured Amaterasu from her cave.
Yamada's music during the 1920s and 1930s successfully avoided the pitfall of many contemporaneous Japanese composers, who created awkward hybrids in their attempts to bridge the gap between Western and Japanese music. [6] [10] His music is closer to Japanese melodic ideas, and eschews the formal structural relationships of Western harmony.