A young woman losing her vision rides the subway with her dog in search of emotional healing.

Seven Steps to Transformational Self-healing. Sound and colour have been used for healing in many ancient civilisations, and are also very relevant to today's healing needs. International author, healer, spiritual teacher and international concert violinist Dian Booth shares a new pathway to self-healing, on which encouragement and gentle support are offered to those who struggle to come to terms with emotional trauma, depression, fear, grief and loss. The 'Anami' Way is a unique approach which offers several pathways to transformational healing, and hints for those who wish to walk their own path of self-healing. You'll learn: - The ancient art of the Buddhist Satipathana healing breath - Exercises in how to use this knowledge in letting go of your suffering, plus special meditations to help you experience a deeper level of inner peace - Why it is important to use exquisitely beautiful healing sounds to support your healing needs, and where to get them - The history of sound and colour for healing and how it could help you today - How to explore your spiritual relationship to the elements of Earth, Air, Fire, Water and Space, and how this knowledge can assist in your own healing - The story of Dian's life of huge challenges and how she overcame them will give hope and encouragement to those who sometimes feel 'the path is to difficult'. - How a rare Egyptian healing instrument can help transform your healing process in another different way. 'Treat yourselves to one of the truest healers of our age. Her angelic music places her in a category of her own.' - Alan Gutierrez, 'Sapphire Songs', USA This book will empower you to take control of your life.

The unheard history of how race and racism are constructed from sound and maintained through the listening ear. Race is a visual phenomenon, the ability to see “difference.” At least that is what conventional wisdom has lead us to believe. Yet, The Sonic Color Line argues that American ideologies of white supremacy are just as dependent on what we hear—voices, musical taste, volume—as they are on skin color or hair texture. Reinforcing compelling new ideas about the relationship between race and sound with meticulous historical research, Jennifer Lynn Stoever helps us to better understand how sound and listening not only register the racial politics of our world, but actively produce them. Through analysis of the historical traces of sounds of African American performers, Stoever reveals a host of racialized aural representations operating at the level of the unseen—the sonic color line—and exposes the racialized listening practices she figures as “the listening ear.” Using an innovative multimedia archive spanning 100 years of American history (1845-1945) and several artistic genres—the slave narrative, opera, the novel, so-called “dialect stories,” folk and blues, early sound cinema, and radio drama—The Sonic Color Line explores how black thinkers conceived the cultural politics of listening at work during slavery, Reconstruction, and Jim Crow. By amplifying Harriet Jacobs, Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield, Charles Chesnutt, The Fisk Jubilee Singers, Ann Petry, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Lena Horne as agents and theorists of sound, Stoever provides a new perspective on key canonical works in African American literary history. In the process, she radically revises the established historiography of sound studies. The Sonic Color Line sounds out how Americans have created, heard, and resisted “race,” so that we may hear our contemporary world differently.

An encyclopaedic work on color in Western art and culture from the Middle Ages to Post-Modernism.

One of the most important and original treatises on musical aesthetics, first published in 1880.

This book explores the idea of the poetic in radio and sound as well as the concept of pure sound as poetry, both historically and within a contemporary perspective, examining examples of makers and works internationally. The work examines the development of poetic forms in sound broadcasting historically and geographically through chapters taking narrative themes. It includes primary source material gathered through interviews conducted by the author with distinguished producers and poets. Among these are producers Piers Plowright, Matt Thompson, Alan Hall, Simon Elmes and Julian May (UK) Edwin Brys, (Belgium) Hildegard Westerkamp (Germany/Canada) Chris Brookes (Canada) Robyn Ravlitch, Michael Ladd and Kaye Mortley (Australia) as well as poets, including Michael Symmons Roberts and Jeremy Hooker. There is a chapter on the poetic sound in the natural world, which focuses in particular on the work of the renowned UK sound recordist, Chris Watson. Alongside audio poetry, the book discusses the spoken word including documentaries and public announcements, the radio feature, soundscapes, sonic art with contributions from key figures such as Colin Black (Australia) and Marcus Leadley (UK)and the poetry of the vernacular in speech and sound. It considers new platforms for listening including podcasts and developments in mobile technologies, examining the work of current practitioners including Francesca Panetta, who is responsible for The Guardian's podcasts as well as the award-winning Hackney Podcast, and Tim Wright.

A positive and affirming look at skin color, from an artist's perspective. Seven-year-old Lena is going to paint a picture of herself. She wants to use brown paint for her skin. But when she and her mother take a walk through the neighborhood, Lena learns that brown comes in many different shades. Through the eyes of a little girl who begins to see her familiar world in a new way, this book celebrates the differences and similarities that connect all people. Karen Katz created The Colors of Us for her daughter, Lena, whom she and her husband adopted from Guatemala six years ago.