- Hardcover: 317 pages
- Publisher: University Press of Mississippi (October 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1578069262
- ISBN-13: 978-1578069262
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 14.2 x 3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 522 g
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“Yashinsky sows stories along the wayside as he explains how and why listeners are hooked, reveals the secrets of story hosts, and describes the extraordinary characters who have sparked the contemporary international revival of this most universal and durable of the arts. Yashinsky himself is one of those extraordinary characters. He gives us much to laugh at, provoke thought, wonder about, and remember and pass on. If the word awesome had not been rendered meaningless by trendiness, it would be the adjective for this book. As it is, spell-binding will do.”
—Jane Jacobs, author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities and Dark Age Ahead
“If you can’t sit down for a cup of tea and a chat with Yashinsky, sitting down with this book is a close second.”
—Winnipeg Free Press
“Suddenly They Heard Footsteps is at once a polemic for storytelling and a personal memoir, a handbook for prospective storytellers and an anthology of tales from which the reader may borrow. It is a passionate work of deeply held belief….Readers will come away from Suddenly They Heard Footsteps with all the basic tools and the inspiration they need to try storytelling for themselves.”
—Quill & Quire
“A melange of memoir, social history and how-to guide, Yashinsky’s love of the spoken word imbues the whole package with warm authority.”
—The Toronto Star
“In celebrating the storyteller’s art, Yashinsky has tapped into a motherlode of universal need, the thirst for a story that shows us what it is to be human.”
—Edmonton Journal --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
—Jane Jacobs, author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities and Dark Age Ahead
“If you can’t sit down for a cup of tea and a chat with Yashinsky, sitting down with this book is a close second.”
—Winnipeg Free Press
“Suddenly They Heard Footsteps is at once a polemic for storytelling and a personal memoir, a handbook for prospective storytellers and an anthology of tales from which the reader may borrow. It is a passionate work of deeply held belief….Readers will come away from Suddenly They Heard Footsteps with all the basic tools and the inspiration they need to try storytelling for themselves.”
—Quill & Quire
“A melange of memoir, social history and how-to guide, Yashinsky’s love of the spoken word imbues the whole package with warm authority.”
—The Toronto Star
“In celebrating the storyteller’s art, Yashinsky has tapped into a motherlode of universal need, the thirst for a story that shows us what it is to be human.”
—Edmonton Journal --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Book Description
Canada’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. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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One of the Best Books on Storytelling In Print, Feb 20 2010
By Robert S. Reiser "Bob Reiser" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Suddenly They Heard Footsteps: Storytelling for the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
Dan Yashinsky,who has done as much as anyone to help the resurgence of storytelling in the last 30 years, has written a tender, beautifully crafted and amazingly informative book on the subject. Tracing his life's growing love of the craft, he shines light on the roles of the storyteller in society from the "storm fools" who brought news of the world to the isolated people of the arctic to the health worker, using stories to heal physical and psychic pain.Last, but not least is the inclusion of some of Dan's most well-known tales, including the beloved story cycle, "The Storyteller at Fault."
For storytellers and story-lovers, "Suddenly We Heard Footsteps" ranks with Ruth Sawyer's "The Way of the Storyteller" and Joseph Sobel's "The Storyteller's Journey" as an entry to this ancient and always contemporary oral art.
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