In this text, Judith Morgan and Andre de Zanger of the Creativity Institute in New York City have gathered 81 ancient Chinese poems meant for meditation and enlightenment.
Simple but elegant, The Tao of Living on Purpose is a must for any curious reader with a taste for Eastern Philosophy. The emphasis of the compositions is living in the moment, living with awareness, celebration, harmony, and self-understanding. Living with a sense of well-being and consciously existing with all people, animals, plants, and everything around us is a central theme in Taoism. This book helps the reader to realize this goal.
From classic films like Carmen Jones to contemporary works like The Diary of Sally Hemings and U-Carmen eKhayelitsa, American and South African artists and composers have used opera to reclaim black people's place in history. Naomi André draws on the experiences of performers and audiences to explore this music's resonance with today's listeners. Interacting with creators and performers, as well as with the works themselves, André reveals how black opera unearths suppressed truths. These truths provoke complex, if uncomfortable, reconsideration of racial, gender, sexual, and other oppressive ideologies. Opera, in turn, operates as a cultural and political force that employs an immense, transformative power to represent or even liberate. Viewing opera as a fertile site for critical inquiry, political activism, and social change, Black Opera lays the foundation for innovative new approaches to applied scholarship.
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