Sentence examples for indigenous themes from inspiring English sources

Yet the tension between native heritage and modern aesthetic values is often apparent, especially when European modes of expression are wedded to indigenous themes.

Returning to the Caribbean, he began to incorporate indigenous themes into his work, fusing African and European motifs into a dynamic hybrid.

His views on literature, signaling the importance of indigenous themes and language while adhering to avant-garde artistic tendencies, provided the means to reevaluate Peruvian culture.

Two additional indigenous themes appear: a secondary one from Sonora and one from the Seri people of Tiburón Island (in the Gulf of California) and the Sonora coast.

During the colonial era, writers of European origin residing in Kenya, such as Elspeth Huxley (The Flame Trees of Thika, 1959) and Isak Dinesen (Out of Africa, 1937), introduced indigenous themes and settings to broad audiences.

And as Lin did in Taiwan, Reyes cultivated a distinctly Filipino modern dance idiom around indigenous themes and stories, in collaboration with renowned Filipino artists, librettists and composers.

"The indigenous theme is longstanding and hereditary, the result of a lack of confidence," he said.

The other called the Ballet Caravan, frequently takes to the road and pioneers with indigenous American themes.

This is a theme, mixing Western European influences and indigenous composition in St . Petersburg that could barely be suggested in a third of a concert.

Paine's example inspired the composers of the Second New England School, which included such figures as Amy Beach, Edward MacDowell, and Horatio Parker. Louis Moreau Gottschalk is perhaps the best-remembered American composer of the 19th century, said by music historian Richard Crawford to be known for "bringing indigenous or folk, themes and rhythms into music for the concert hall".

Though might lead one to assume that Carpentaria and The Swan Book must be distinctly Indigenous Australian in theme and style, Wright is candid about the sources of inspiration for her novels, citing the literature of South America, India, the Middle East and Ireland.