Finding the Deep River Within: A Woman's Guide to Recovering Balance and Meaning in Everyday Life

Finding the Deep River Within: A Woman's Guide to Recovering Balance and Meaning in Everyday Life
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The best gift to yourself and to others

One of my favorite books I've read this year

Great book

Life doesn't have to be fast to be fun!

Great Guidance for a More Meaningful Life

Finding the Deep River Within: A Woman's Guide to Recovering Balance and Meaning in Everyday Life
Abby Seixas
Manufacturer: Jossey-Bass
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0787980978

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For over two decades, Abby Seixas has taught women how to slow down and reclaim their lives from the tyranny of their to-do lists. Based on the experiences of women whose lives have been transformed by her workshops, this highly anticipated first book presents her comprehensive program to nurture contact with the Deep River Within, the soul-nourishing dimension in each of us that flows beneath the busyness of daily life. With gentle encouragement, practical guidance, and compelling stories of struggle and success, Finding the Deep River Within details the three preliminary doorways and six core practices for inviting the rich resources of our deeper nature into everyday life.

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The best gift to yourself and to others.......2007-09-06

I am a major fan of the hardcover edition of this book and plan to order paperbacks as gifts for my friends. Author, Abby Seixas, tackles the subject crucial to all of us living in this culture of rush: how to slow down and live more effectively, enjoyably, and unselfishly. She provides practical tools on how to quiet your racing thoughts, live in the moment, and realize the life you were meant to live. Too often, we are slaves to unnecessary stress which limits the lives we were meant to lead. This book will help you not only to stop and smell the roses but to feed and nurture the whole garden that is your life. The price and the time you will spend on this book will be returned to you 10 times over in the rewards you will reap in your daily life.

One of my favorite books I've read this year.......2007-08-31

Abby Seixas' warm, wonderful guide left me in tears: tears of gratitude and recognition. I have four children, co-own a business with my husband, homeschool my two older children, and recently launched a second business: my life is full. I began "Finding the Deep River Within" on a day when I was exhausted, overwhelmed, feeling inside out, and wondering how I could make the various pieces of my life work.

Reading her book was like talking with a wise older sister or aunt. As women in the 21st century, we have so many opportunities. And yet those endless opportunities can create their own stress: If we can do everything, and we have endless choices, then how do we pick and choose to create a fulfilling, passionate life?

This is not a how to organize your life guide. It's a how to find yourself---your true self, your spirit---guide.

I read voraciously, at least a book or two a week, and Finding the Deep River Within was one of my favorite books I read this year: it's that good.

Great book.......2007-03-08

I love this book. It has practical advice for helping women to evaluate their lives and find balance. It is not another "how to organize" your life book. It truly invites one to take stock of what is important from inside out. It is a great resource for me as a retreat director.

Life doesn't have to be fast to be fun!.......2006-10-28

"A deep river" is a marvelous alternative metaphor for living that feels like endless "white water." While Seixas' advice to take time for yourself, befriend your feelings, and do what you love is not new, her written expression is compelling--even enchanting. For a more thoroughly Christian perspective on slowing down and living delight, see Addicted to Hurry: Spiritual Strategies for Slowing Down and Holy Play: The Joyful Adventure of Unleashing Your Divine Purpose.

Great Guidance for a More Meaningful Life.......2006-10-05

The six practices Abby Seixas describes in Finding the Deep River Within contain sound psycho-spiritual skills that bring me home to myself and provide excellent guidance for my clients. The great value of this book is that Seixas has laid out these essential skills in a coherent, well-organized way that's easy to understand and inviting to use. Her writing is direct and intimate, and her message is desperately needed to create balance in our demanding world. Valuable wisdom for enriching one's life, and a treasure to give to your women friends.
Jean Guenther, Psychotherapist, Burlington, VT

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Excellent translation of Los Rios Profundos
Best of them all!!
Less a novel than a series of reflections
Hauntingly poetic
Conflicting cultures flow deep beneath modern-day Peru

Deep Rivers
Jose Maria Arguedas
Manufacturer: Waveland Pr Inc
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José María Arguedas is one of the few Latin American authors who loved and described his natural surroundings, and he ranks among the greatest writers of any time and place. He saw the beauty of the Peruvian landscape, as well as the grimness of social conditions in the Andes, through the eyes of the Indians who are a part of it. Ernesto, the narrator of Deep Rivers, is a child with origins in two worlds. The son of a wandering country lawyer, he is brought up by Indian servants until he enters a Catholic boarding school at age 14. In this urban Spanish environment he is a misfit and a loner. The conflict of the Indian and the Spanish cultures is acted out within him as it was in the life of Arguedas. For the boy Ernesto, salvation is his world of dreams and memories. While Arguedas' poetry was published in Quechua, he invented a language for his novels in which he used native syntax with Spanish vocabulary. This makes translation into other languages extremely difficult, and Frances Horning Barraclough has done a masterful job, winning the 1978 Translation Center Award from Columbia University for her efforts.

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Excellent translation of Los Rios Profundos.......2007-05-13

If you are looking for an excellent translation of Jose Maria Arguedas, "Los Rios Profundos" this is it. The book retains the integrity of the origianl Spanish, and the spirit of the quechuan explanations which are left in quechuan. With a brief introduction by the translator as well as a glossary of terms at the end this English translation has made Arguedas masterful novel available to the English speaking world.

Best of them all!!.......2007-03-20

I couldn't find this book anywhere!! Books-a-Million said that they could order it and it would have taken 3-7 weeks. I finally found it on Amazon and it was reasonable and here within 5 days. I have also ordered with Amazon before and they have the best service. I love how you can track your item down to the day it arrives.

Less a novel than a series of reflections.......2004-12-06

This subject line is not to diminish the power of this work. Only to convey that, unlike many other "coming-of-age" stories of a youth, Arguedas' semi-autobiographical tale presents a boy already formed even before the events of the bulk of the narrative. A pantheism rushes over his pages, and the Catholicism in whose school he is domiciled for most of the story remains more of a veneer over a pagan and defiant Quechua world refusing to succumb under the oppressive colonial and clerical regimes. The set-pieces of the book, the uprising of the peasant women for salt and waiting in the town as the plague approaches, gain force when (as Vargas Llosa notes in his afterword) placed within a calmer flow of words, at times scraped by harsh reality.

The descriptions of the natural world remain moving; however, many of the supporting characters at the youth's boarding school and the girl he courts (from afar it seems more than close up) stay rather diffused and vague. Nearly no details emerge, for example, of the actual schooling he receives, but plenty of cringeworthy accounts of how Rector Linares attempts to manipulate the Gospels to placate insurrectionists. A message, I gather, that subsequent generations in Latin America learned from. The prescience of this work, given the later events in Perú, makes Arguedas all the more compelling a contribution, that even in English (thanks to the abundant Quechua blended in), makes for a bracingly vivid read, with hints of what would become "magic realism" mixed with muted political critique and personal quests for identity for a boy caught between cultures.

Hauntingly poetic.......1999-10-17

This is a gem of a book. While there are many things to like about it, I am most enamoured of the richness of detail in its naturalistic description. Arguedas, with his Indian upbringing, has a perceptiveness toward nature not often found in modern, Western society. The translation conveys this beautifully, though I've heard that the original Spanish is even more vivid in its descriptions. The characterization is multi-layered: there's even someone highly reminiscent of the Grand Inquisitor in Dostoyevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov"...

Conflicting cultures flow deep beneath modern-day Peru.......1999-08-22

Non-western thoughts, beliefs and fears still permeate 20th.century Peru, a cultural heritage of the Inca empire. Arguedas, although white, learned Quechua as an infant, forced by circumstances to spend long periods with Peruvians of indian extraction, an experience which he would forever remember with deep tenderness and affection, and which would transmit surviving elements of Inca thought as well. The problem Arguedas faced as a writer was how to express a non-western state of mind in Spanish, a western language. In "Deep Rivers", he sometimes shifts the structures of sentences, or uses diminutives, to mimic Quechua. Stones can talk, and rivers sing. Big black flies are attracted to persons who are about to die. For Inca thought, the reflections from a pool of blood relate to the reflections from rapids in a stormy river. In "Deep Rivers" Arguedas shares with us the deep undercurrents and contradictions which flow beneath the surface of modern-day Peru. Conflicting cultures related through cruelty and despotism. Deep rivers flow in every culture. Not the superficial, visible elements of a culture, but those intimate fears, obsessions, and dreams which lie at the core of its members.

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Tremendous
Searching for Peace in an Expanded Horizon
A global odysey originating in Japan, culminates in India
Great book
Deep river, shallow story

Deep River
Shusaku Endo
Manufacturer: New Directions Publishing Corporation
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Tremendous.......2007-01-30

"... in every companionship there remains a mutually insoluble loneliness." This quote from 'Deep River' decribes the void within all 5 of Endo's protagonists. All 5 Japanese end up in India after a life of loss and suffering has led them there, 4 of them on a tour (each seeking their own form of closure) and the fifth, Otsu, a failed seminarian, is there, for it was the endpoint of his own spiritual struggle and reconciliation with modernity. Endo's writing is crisp and effortless and defies you to put it down. Endo is known as a 'Catholic' writer, but in the end I think it's fair to say that he takes all (organized) religions to task in this novel - and rightly so. Everyone's struggle is personal, w/ life and death, and it's our aggregate struggle with our 'insoluble loneliness' that leads to the strife and suffering in this world. This is a powerful novel, a masterpiece.

Searching for Peace in an Expanded Horizon.......2004-08-19

This is a beautiful story of 5 people searching for the inner peace that has eluded them throughout much, if not all, of their lives. The cause of their inner turmoil comes from a variety of sources but their emptiness and incompleteness is very real. Shusaku Endo introduces us to each of them seperately and then has them all, for seperate reasons, journey to India. They are in a guided tour that will supposedly show them a number of Buddhist shrines and historical sites. Their trip leads them to the Ganges River where they initially off at and then are all drawn to its' sacredness. The author gives us a serene glimpse of a sort of peace descending upon the 5 pilgrims. It may not be the peace they sought or would recognize, but it seems to be the peace they needed.

Shusaku Endo is a Japanese Christian who writes challengely about his own faith. To me, the core of his message in "Deep River" is the universal nature of faith and the universal nature of God. He exists for all of us but we come to know Him through the religion of our culture. Thus the Hindus, Christians, Moslems, Buddhists, etc are all seeking the same ultimate oneness with God (i.e.; peace) but they are each traveling different paths outlined through them in a theology passed along through the millennia. To illustrate his point, Endu shows us the five seperate tales of redemption and has them all come to salvation at a Hindu holy site. God DOES work in mysterious ways.

A global odysey originating in Japan, culminates in India.......2003-07-19

During a tour in India, five very different Japanese characters meet near the holy Ganges river: a man who grieves the death of a wife he had neglected; a woman bitten by her own cynicism and growing sense of inner void; a Japanese man who disaffection for the Christian life he adopted leads him to seek spiritual renewal elsewhere; and a former Japanese solider still haunted by the memories of atrocities in war-time Japanese-occupied Burma. Shusaku Endo masterfully builds up these full bodied characters through deft brushstrokes of key passages in their lives. Individual chapters show the inner turmoil and personal changes which lead these characters to their encounter (or re-encounter) in India, including a young Japanese who becomes disatisfied with the Christian life to which he had converted in his early youth and later followed in France; a widower in quest of the soul of her husband; and others.

Looking at a few quotes extracted from a dialogue between two Japanese characters in the novel will give you a sense of the encounters and re-encounters between individuals and the cross-cultural encounters, all of which are a strong feature of the play. In this dialogue which takes place in Paris, a Japanese woman talks to Otsu, one of the main characters who became a Christian early in his life in Japan.

The woman declares: "...It makes my teeth stand on edge just to think of you as a Japanese believing in this European Christianity nonsense." Otsu replies: "I've been here three years. For three years I have lived here and I have tired of the way people think. The ways of thinking that they've kneaded with their own hands and fashioend to meet the workings of their hearts..they're ponderous to an Asian like me. I can't blend in with them. And so everyday is hell for me..."

The reader of this novel who is not Japanese will gain some interesting insights into how Japanese might react to these different cultural settings, as characters move from Japan to France to the United States, and finally meet in India. Endo delivers a very personal sense of cross-cultural encounters, recognizable to those of us who have gone through similar journeys in different parts of the world.

Since I have only read Japanese novels in translation into either English or French, I cannot fairly judge Endo's style against other Japanese writers who are also well known to foreign readers, like Mishima and Kawabata. But while Endo may not share the grace and delicacy of these writers, his novels, including this one, are very human, and bring us very close to the inner lives of his characters.

If you want to better understand how Japanese come to view the rest of the world, or more generally how different cultures can collide, Endo's novels and his characters are a good place to start, or to continue, your journey.

Great book.......2002-09-14

I had to read this for my Asian history class. It's a quick read, something that can be easily read in two hours. It's also fairly understandable. Endo's depiction of each character on their journey to India is amazing. Mitsuko, the self-abosorbed, divorced, cynical woman and her friend Otsu, a Catholic priest who is more pantheistic than he is Catholic, Numado, a meloncholy man who writes children's books and can talk to animals, Isobe, a widower trying to make sense of his life and his wife's death, Kiguchi , a sickly war vet in which everything around him reminds him of combat, and the Sanjos, the yuppie, naive couple going to India on their honeymoon.

There is great significance in each of the characters. Ostu being a Christ figure, the Sanjos representing the "Westernized" Japanese who are almost ignorant of the Indian culture and religion. Although I cannot agree with some of the worldviews discussed in the novel, it's a great book and the most symbolistic book I have read in years.

It is no accident that Ostu gave God the name of "Onion." An onion has several layers to it. Ostu believed that the God of Christianity was also the God of Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, etc. This is where I give this book 4 stars instead of 5. The God of the Old and New Testaments cannot be the same as the ones of Buddhism, Hinduism, etc.

Deep river, shallow story.......2002-05-28

Shusaku Endo's "Deep River" is the story of several Japanese tourists on a sightseeing trip to visit various Hindu and Buddhist holy sites in the region of the Ganges River in India. For four of these tourists, however, this trip is more like a pilgrimage; each is at a point of spiritual or moral uncertainty in his or her life and is seeking some sort of redemption, closure, or significance.

First we meet Isobe, an elderly man who recently has lost his wife to cancer. Although skeptical at first, he now has hope that his wife has been reincarnated, and he has evidence he might find her in India. Then there is Mitsuko, a woman who, when in college, seduced a pious Christian student named Otsu just for fun, to see if she could lure him away from his God; after an unhappy marriage she devoted her time to charitable hospital work and is now searching for Otsu, who she has heard is now a Catholic priest living in India. Numada is a children's story writer who gets his inspiration from imagined communications with animals; recovering from tuberculosis, he comes to believe that a bird his wife bought for him as a pet died in place of him. He has come to India to see the bird and animal sanctuaries. Kiguchi is an ex-soldier who suffered horrible near-death experiences in World War II Burma; he has come to India to memorialize his fallen war comrades.

My feelings about this novel are divided. On one hand, Endo's descriptions of Indian scenery and customs from the Japanese vantage point and the culture clash are excellent; he writes poignantly, if a little too sentimentally; and his hope for peace between the religions of the world is certainly noble. (Repudiating Christianity's Eurocentrism, Otsu believes God can be found among all nations and religions.)

On the other hand, the simplicity with which Endo presents his protagonists and their situations implies that the author is more interested in conveying his personal religious convictions than in pure narrative invention. His symbols of the divine (Otsu as a Christ-like savior, Gaston the hospital volunteer as an angel) are so transparent, they seem less like literary devices than arbitrary miraculous avatars, especially towards the end, where the novel's tone becomes increasingly didactic. Case in point: The tour group includes a young married couple named the Sanjos, whose selfish, insensitive, and materialistic attitudes seem to represent the modern affluent Japan and what Endo feels is an arrogant, godless society. Their speech and actions are too unrealistically annoying, too unconvincing, as though Endo were manipulatively trying to make his readers hate them and see his point. This is some of the most contrived characterization I've seen in any novel meant to be read by adults.

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In the spring of 1848 seventy-six slaves from the nation's capital hid aboard a schooner called the Pearl in an attempt to sail down the Potomac River and up the Chesapeake Bay to freedom in Pennsylvania. When inclement weather forced them to anchor for the night, the fugitive slaves and the ship's crew were captured and returned to Washington. Many of the slaves were sold to the Lower South, and two men sailing the Pearl were tried and sentenced to prison.

Recounting this harrowing tale from the preparations for escape through the participants' trial, Josephine Pacheco provides fresh insight into the lives of enslaved blacks in the District of Columbia, putting a human face on the victims of the interstate slave trade, whose lives have been overshadowed by larger historical events. Pacheco also details the Congressional debates about slavery that resulted from this large-scale slave escape attempt. She contends that although the incident itself and the trials and Congressional disputes that followed were not directly responsible for bringing about an end to the slave trade in the nation's capital, they played a pivotal role in publicizing many of the issues surrounding slavery. Eventually, President Millard Fillmore pardoned the operators of the Pearl.

Streams of Consciousness: Hip-Deep Dispatches from the River of Life
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Fly fishing in life

Great read, again

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shared introspection

Streams of Consciousness: Hip-Deep Dispatches from the River of Life
Jeff Hull
Manufacturer: The Lyons Press
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This collection is about fishing and everything but fishing. From the trout streams of Montana to the shores of New England, to the spring creeks of Chile’s Patagonia to the clear waters of Belize, Hull regales readers with humility and hilarity. In Montana he fishes fabled trout streams in twilight; the day runs down while his brother’s time literally runs out. In a small pond on the grounds of a psychiatric hospital in Kansas, he fishes, pulling bluegill out of the water along with an essential part of his identity. While Hull fills his dispatches with wonderful characters and spectacular fishing stories, he offers searing insight into the human heart.

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Fly fishing in life.......2007-08-03

Jeff hull brings the reader into the book with more than just fly fishing. Hull shows how fly fishing influenced his life. His truimphs and tragedys are well documented in this book. It was a great read.

Great read, again .......2007-05-10

Read Jeff Hull's previous book and have recommended it repeatedly. Stumbled onto this one while ordering Pale Morning Done as a gift and was ecstatic to order. Another great read. Short stories about the intersection of fishing and life in all of its complexity, from funny to intense. This is an insightful storyteller. Keep them coming.

A Great Second Act.......2007-05-05

Discovering a new author is a great pleasure in life. And so it was when I discovered Jeff Hull last year and his first book, Pale Morning Done, a page-turner of a book full of great flyfishing, side-slapping (or nearly so) humor, authentic dialogue, compelling characters, and a strong point of view. After tearing through Pale Morning Done, I couldn't wait for his second book.

Streams of Consciousness did not disappoint me. Although it is a book of short stories, rather than a novel, there are many similarities. You get more variety for your money but also the same compelling themes delivered in the same polished style.

In Streams of Consciousness, Jeff Hull takes us from spawning white bass in the sloughs of Lake Erie to his favorite streams near his Montana home and from first love to life threatening depression and the painful loss of a young sibling. He explores our relationships to each other and to our animals. He titillates us with exciting places to fish. And, he teaches us some interesting and uncomfortable facts about our endangered planet.

Whether you are a flyfisher like myself or a non flyfisher like my wife, who was drawn to the humanity of the stories, there is much to enjoy and ponder in Streams of Consciousness. It is indeed strong proof that Jeff Hull has more than one good story to tell and it whets my appetite for his third book.

Superb Writing.......2007-05-01

Several years ago I read a story in Fly Rod & Reel magazine called "Rorschach Bluegills" by Jeff Hull. I thought it was as good a piece of writing as I'd seen in ANY magazine in a long time and when my copy of that issue was lost, I wrote to the editor and requested another. I'm happy to say that if I lose that magazine again, I'll still have that story in "Streams of Consciousness: Hip-Deep Dispatches from the River of Life".

As good as that story is, it is surpassed by "Third Spaces". The story is particularly poignant to me as my own brother has health issues that required him to have a kidney transplant years ago, and I was able to be an organ donor for him. I was fortunate to not lose my brother to his disease, but as I read this incredible work I was transported to that place and time in my life when I went through that experience with my brother, which is precisely what good writing does.

I can't recommend this book highly enough and hope that Jeff Hull has a long and prolific career. I'm anxiously awaiting his next work.

shared introspection.......2007-04-10

I freely confess bias. I love Labrador dogs. In fact, if reincarnation exists, I pray that I come back as a Labrador in my family because I'll get enough belly rubs, treats, ear scratches and crotch sniffing for more than one lifetime. But then I'm addicted to fly fishing too, with the rhythm of the line, the feel of haul, double haul, and the effortless side-flick of line under edge brush to coax out a bank-hugging 'Bow. "Streams of Consciousness" has all you want of both, but it seems rather deep, personal introspection on life, death and relationships. A Lab, a 7 weight, or a brother can be like a bright shiny fish, held for a magic moment by a thin filament of crafted attraction and purposeful force. But in the end if you release and free this shiny possesion that you can never really own, you will possess the richness of that experience forever.

John O'Donoghue in "Anam Cara" said, "Ironically, difficulty can be the great friend of creativity." Streams of Consciousness is forged, creative serious thought after the searing reality of the death of a loved brother, contemplation of one's own death, and the capricious impermanence of relationships slipping away like a gentle tug on a slipped Nail Knot. I hope Jeff Hull keeps writing.

Pierce E. Scranton Jr. M.D.
author, "Death on the Learing Curve"

Deep River and The Negro Spiritual Speaks of Life and Death

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The Message of the Spirituals

Deep River and The Negro Spiritual Speaks of Life and Death
Howard Thurman
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Dr. Howard Thurman explores how protest and resistance are expressed in spirituals as well as how these songs have been a "spiritual watering hole" in his life..

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The Message of the Spirituals.......2006-06-25

Howard Thurman, grandson of an enslaved grandmother, author, philosopher, and writer, offers two books in one with "Deep River" and "The Negro Spiritual Speaks of Life and Death." Both volumes describe with amazing insight the depths of meaning held in the slave songs. Thurman provides accurate and detailed background along with experiential wisdom that bring the spirituals to life for all readers, regardless of race.

Reviewer: Bob Kellemen, Ph.D., is the author of "Beyond the Suffering: Embracing the Legacy of African American Soul Care and Spiritual Direction," "Soul Physicians," "Spiritual Friends," and the forthcoming "Sacred Friendships: Listening to the Voices of Women Soul Care-Givers and Spiritual Directors."

Deep River: Music and Memory in Harlem Renaissance Thought (New Americanists)

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Deep River: Music and Memory in Harlem Renaissance Thought (New Americanists)
Paul Allen Anderson , and Paul Allen Anderson
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âThe American Negro,â Arthur Schomburg wrote in 1925, âmust remake his past in order to make his future.â Many Harlem Renaissance figures agreed that reframing the black folk inheritance could play a major role in imagining a new future of racial equality and artistic freedom. In Deep River Paul Allen Anderson focuses on the role of African American folk music in the Renaissance aesthetic and in political debates about racial performance, social memory, and national identity.
Deep River elucidates how spirituals, African American concert music, the blues, and jazz became symbolic sites of social memory and anticipation during the Harlem Renaissance. Anderson traces the roots of this period’s debates about music to the American and European tours of the Fisk Jubilee Singers in the 1870s and to W. E. B. Du Bois’s influential writings at the turn of the century about folk culture and its bearing on racial progress and national identity. He details how musical idioms spoke to contrasting visions of New Negro art, folk authenticity, and modernist cosmopolitanism in the works of Du Bois, Alain Locke, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Sterling Brown, Roland Hayes, Paul Robeson, Carl Van Vechten, and others. In addition to revisiting the place of music in the culture wars of the 1920s, Deep River provides fresh perspectives on the aesthetics of race and the politics of music in Popular Front and Swing Era music criticism, African American critical theory, and contemporary musicology.
Deep River offers a sophisticated historical account of American racial ideologies and their function in music criticism and modernist thought. It will interest general readers as well as students of African American studies, American studies, intellectual history, musicology, and literature.

Bridging Deep South Rivers: The Life and Legend of Horace King

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Bridging Deep South Rivers: The Life and Legend of Horace King
John S. Lupold , French, Jr. Thomas , and Thomas L. French
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Horace King (1807-1885) built covered bridges over every large river in the South from Georgia through Alabama to eastern Mississippi. That King, who began life as a slave in Cheraw, South Carolina, received no formal training makes his story all the more remarkable. This is the first major biography of the gifted architect and engineer who used his skills to transcend the limits of slavery and segregation and become a successful entrepreneur and builder.

John S. Lupold and Thomas L. French Jr. add considerably to our knowledge of a man whose accomplishments demand wider recognition. As a slave and then as a freedman, King built bridges, courthouses, warehouses, factories, and houses in the three-state area. The authors separate legend from facts as they carefully document King's life in the Chattahoochee Valley on the Georgia-Alabama border. We learn about King's freedom from slavery in 1846, his reluctant support of the Confederacy, and his two terms in Alabama's Reconstruction legislature. In addition, the biography reveals King's relationship with his fellow (white) contractors and investors, especially John Godwin, his master and business partner, and Robert Jemison Jr., the Alabama entrepreneur and legislator who helped secure King's freedom. The story does not end with Horace, however, because he passed his skills on to his three sons, who also became prominent builders and businessmen.

In King's world few other blacks had his opportunities to excel. King seized on his chances and became the most celebrated bridge builder in the Deep South. The reader comes away from King's story with respect for the man; insight into the problems of financing, building, and maintaining covered bridges; and a new sense of how essential bridges were to the southern market economy.

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