Author: Elizabeth Calvert Fine
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252024757
Category : African American dance
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Stepping is a complex performance that melds folk traditions with popular culture and involves synchronized percussive movement, singing, speaking, chanting, and drama. Elizabeth C. Fine's stunningly elaborate and vibrant portrayal of the cultural politics of stepping draws on interviews with individuals on college campuses and steppers and stepping coaches from high schools, community groups, churches, and dance organizations. Soulstepping is the first book to document the history of stepping, its roots in African and African American culture, and its transformation by churches, schools, and social groups into a powerful tool for instilling group identity and community involvement.
Author: Tamara L. Brown
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813140730
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 744
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The rich history and social significance of the “Divine Nine” African American Greek-letter organizations is explored in this comprehensive anthology. In the long tradition of African American benevolent and secret societies, intercollegiate African American fraternities and sororities have strong traditions of fostering brotherhood and sisterhood among their members, exerting considerable influence in the African American community and being in the forefront of civic action, community service, and philanthropy. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Toni Morrison, Arthur Ashe, and Sarah Vaughn are just a few of the trailblazing members of these organizations. African American Fraternities and Sororities places the history of these organizations in context, linking them to other movements and organizations that predated them and tying their history to the Civil Rights movement. It explores various cultural aspects of the organizations, such as auxiliary groups, branding, calls, and stepping, and highlights the unique role of African American sororities.
Author: John Holland
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1458755886
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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This fascinating book provides some of the tools to help you to tap in to one of the most powerful forces in the Universe - your soul! Step by step, it will guide you to follow your true soul's path and help you reconnect with your natural spiritual abilities. You'll develop a conscious awareness of the spiritual laws that help mold your life, and the individual soul force that's in each and every one of you. Power of the Soul will help dismantle some of the barriers created by your outer-self, to unveil your true inner-self and enable you to break free from some of the psychological restrictions that have prevented you from identifying and realizing your full potential. The material within these pages will help you overcome those feelings of being trapped, constrained, or unfulfilled and show you how to lead a soul-enriched and authentic life that aligns with your aspirations. Throughout the book, psychic medium John Holland leads you through a number of practical techniques and goal-setting exercises that he's taught in his signature workshops, which will empower you to awaken the power of your spirit and your soul . . . and lead a life of unlimited potential. Within these pages, you'll learn how to:; Discover and access your spiritual faculties; Open yourself to a guiding higher-consciousness; Remove psychological and spiritual blocks; Find your true self, as you understand the purpose, nature and function of the soul; Create and control your own path; Use spiritual energy to heal yourself and others; Enhance your body, mind, and soul to live a life of harmony This transformational book is more than just a guide . . . it's a way back to living from the inside out. It will help you (no matter what your walk of life) follow your own spiritual journey. John says, ''Once your spiritual gifts are recognized, opened, and used, you'll see yourself and the world in a way you never thought possible!''
Author: Amy Newmark
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1611592771
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 426
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Love your crazy family? These hilarious and heartwarming stories introduce you to the 101 wacky, yet lovable, relatives in our writers’ lives. You won’t stop laughing! Everyone thinks they have a crazy family, and most of us wouldn’t have it any other way. We tell stories about our bizarre family traditions, our eccentric relatives, and our favorite disastrous vacations or weird holiday gatherings. The 101 stories in this heartwarming collection cover the gamut of family members, and they’ll have you laughing and nodding your head in recognition. Those quirky relatives are worth celebrating, because you know you love them. And somehow, underneath it all, you learn a lot from them too! Share the fun with your in-laws, parents, children, siblings and cousins. It’s a great way to show that you love them, or to welcome someone new to your own crazy family.
Author: David G. Whiteis
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252094778
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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Attracting passionate fans primarily among African American listeners in the South, southern soul draws on such diverse influences as the blues, 1960s-era deep soul, contemporary R & B, neosoul, rap, hip-hop, and gospel. Aggressively danceable, lyrically evocative, and fervidly emotional, southern soul songs often portray unabashedly carnal themes, and audiences delight in the performer-audience interaction and communal solidarity at live performances. Examining the history and development of southern soul from its modern roots in the 1960s and 1970s, David Whiteis highlights some of southern soul's most popular and important entertainers and provides first-hand accounts from the clubs, show lounges, festivals, and other local venues where these performers work. Profiles of veteran artists such as Denise LaSalle, the late J. Blackfoot, Latimore, and Bobby Rush--as well as contemporary artists T. K. Soul, Ms. Jody, Sweet Angel, Willie Clayton, and Sir Charles Jones--touch on issues of faith and sensuality, artistic identity and stereotyping, trickster antics, and future directions of the genre. These revealing discussions, drawing on extensive new interviews, also acknowledge the challenges of striving for mainstream popularity while still retaining the cultural and regional identity of the music and maintaining artistic ownership and control in the age of digital dissemination.
Author: Elizabeth Marsh
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Author: T. Brown
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137071397
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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Considers the misappropriation of African American popular culture through various genres, largely Hip Hop, to argue that while such cultural creations have the potential to be healing agents, they are still exploited -often with the complicity of African Americans- for commercial purposes and to maintain white ruling class hegemony.
Author: Charity Amy Murphy
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1982209003
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Charity Amy Murphy, MA BSocSc, combines the spiritual philosophy of east and west with the practical principles of positive psychology to bring you a unique guide to your own personal and spiritual development. Through this journey you will be gently guided to reconnect with heart, mind, spirit, soul and body. You will learn how to: • Identify and clear emotional blocks and negative thought patterns that may be holding you back. • Learn to work in harmony with the law of attraction in manifesting a life you truly love, • and start to bring a conscious awareness to your Soul Journey. Live now how you wish to Live, be now how you dream to be. Heal your heart, balance your mind, free your spirit and connect with the wisdom and knowing of your Soul. Awaken to your True Self
Author: Stuart Cosgrove
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
ISBN: 1788856325
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 769
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Spanning three different cities across the United States, Stuart Cosgrove's bestselling Soul Trilogy blends history, culture and music to paint a vivid picture of social change through the last years of the 1960s. Strap in for a journey through urban riots, escalating war in Vietnam, police corruption, the assassination of Martin Luther King, the rise of musical pioneers such as Aretha Franklin, Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash, the arrest of the Black Panther members and their controversial trials, and much, much more. Award-winning and critically acclaimed, these are books that no soul music enthusiast should be without. 'Cosgrove's lucid, entertaining prose is laden with detail, but never at the expense of the wider narrative' – Clash Magazine Titles included in this bundle are: Detroit 67 Memphis 68 Harlem 69
Author: Deepak Chopra, M.D.
Publisher: Harmony
ISBN: 0307452344
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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Deepak Chopra presents ten lessons to help build awareness and change the distorted energy patterns that are the root cause of aging, infirmity, and disease. Fifteen years after his #1 New York Times bestseller, Ageless Body, Timeless Mind, Deepak Chopra revisits "the forgotten miracle"–the body's infinite capacity for change and renewal. You cannot take advantage of this miracle, Chopra says, unless you are willing to completely reinvent your body, transforming it from a material object to a dynamic, flowing process. "Your physical body is a fiction," Chopra contends. Every cell is made up of two invisible ingredients: awareness and energy. Transformation can't stop with the body, however; it must involve the soul. The soul–seemingly invisible, aloof, and apart from the material world–actually creates the body. Only by going to the level of the soul will you access your full potential, bringing more intelligence, creativity, and awareness into every aspect of your life. Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul delivers ten breakthroughs–five for the body, five for the soul–that lead to self-transformation. In clear, accessible terms, Chopra shows us how to commit ourselves to deeper awareness, focus on relationships instead of consumption, embrace every day as a new world, and transcend the obstacles that afflict body and mind. Deepak Chopra has inspired millions with his profound teachings over the years. His bestselling books have explored the mind/body connection and the power of spirit. With his latest book, he invites you to experience with him the miracles that unfold when we connect the body directly to the awesome mysteries that give life meaning–directly to the soul. When you have completed this journey, after reinventing your body and resurrecting your soul, the ecstasy of true wholeness becomes possible for the very first time.
