Documentary about American composer Cole Porter. Bass-baritone and Porter historian Wilfried Van den Brande charts the key events of Porter's life and career by tracing his footsteps and visiting places including his birthplace of Peru, Indiana, his university at Yale and many of the cities he lived in such as Paris, New York and Venice.

With an evolutionary view of species success in the context of the world's 'madness, ' psychotherapist and transformational presence coach Darcy S. Clarke offers an accessible introduction to Living in Alignment, an approach to experiencing your personal transformation. To lead the way in our next evolutionary step as a species, we are called to deepen the journey of aligning with our soul and discovering our unique 'soul mission.' Without using theological jargon or invoking a religious belief system, Darcy provides a universal human roadmap that will illuminate, support, and facilitate your personal growth. When you are ready to take your next step, order Darcy's companion book, LIVING IN ALIGNMENT: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION. IT's both a guide for those on their journey of soul realization and soul actualization and a workbook for the Living in Alignment Program. Order it from Amazon.com.

In this practical Guide to recovery from codependence, Darcy S. Clarke expands the existing understanding of this condition by asserting that its underlying cause is a lack of awareness of--or no conscious connection with--our soul. Offering a compassionate perspective on how we suffer from both family-based shame and rigid, culturally imposed expectations, Darcy views the five major core patterns of codependence as symptoms of spiritual 'dis-ease'. Packed with user-friendly charts, worksheets, checklists, and experiential exercises that offer transformative insights to those willing to explore the pain of dysfunctional beliefs, behaviors, and relationships, this Guide assists readers to reclaim their lives by developing both a working understanding of the sources of their codependent patterns and a practical skill base essential to self-empowerment and personal well-being. Trained by Pia Mellody at The Meadows, Darcy incorporates her perspective on the origins of codependence in dysfunctional families but also deepens it dramatically in a radical departure from her analysis. He offers both a transpersonal perspective on the core experience of feeling empty, lost, numb, and entitled and a practical focus on how to deprogram and reprogram our underlying beliefs and cognitions based on toxic shame and disconnection from our deepest self (our soul). Forged from insights derived from group and individual psychotherapy in multiple residential treatment centers and in private practice, this Guide offers a distillation of the wisdom of many pioneers in the treatment of codependence, along with Darcy's unique focus on the spiritual dimension of experiencing 'Freedom to Be'. Darcy S. Clarke's companion Guide, LIVING IN ALIGNMENT, offers further practical insights into personal transformation for those interested in deepening the journey they can begin by HEALING THE WOUNDS OF CODEPENDENCE.

A hybrid of reggae and rap, reggaeton is a music with Spanish-language lyrics and Caribbean aesthetics that has taken Latin America, the United States, and the world by storm. Superstars--including Daddy Yankee, Don Omar, and Ivy Queen--garner international attention, while aspiring performers use digital technologies to create and circulate their own tracks. "Reggaeton" brings together critical assessments of this wildly popular genre. Journalists, scholars, and artists delve into reggaeton's local roots and its transnational dissemination; they parse the genre's aesthetics, particularly in relation to those of hip-hop; and they explore the debates about race, nation, gender, and sexuality generated by the music and its associated cultural practices, from dance to fashion.

The collection opens with an in-depth exploration of the social and sonic currents that coalesced into reggaeton in Puerto Rico during the 1990s. Contributors consider reggaeton in relation to that island, Panama, Jamaica, and New York; Cuban society, Miami's hip-hop scene, and Dominican identity; and other genres including "reggae en espanol," underground, and dancehall reggae. The reggaeton artist Tego Calderon provides a powerful indictment of racism in Latin America, while the hip-hop artist Welmo Romero Joseph discusses the development of reggaeton in Puerto Rico and his refusal to embrace the upstart genre. The collection features interviews with the DJ/rapper El General and the reggae performer Renato, as well as a translation of "Chamaco's Corner," the poem that served as the introduction to Daddy Yankee's debut album. Among the volume's striking images are photographs from Miguel Luciano's series Pure Plantainum, a meditation on identity politics in the bling-bling era, and photos taken by the reggaeton videographer Kacho Lopez during the making of the documentary "Bling'd: Blood, Diamonds, and Hip-Hop."

Contributors. Geoff Baker, Tego Calderon, Carolina Caycedo, Jose Davila, Jan Fairley, Juan Flores, Gallego (Jose Raul Gonzalez), Felix Jimenez, Kacho Lopez, Miguel Luciano, Wayne Marshall, Frances Negron-Muntaner, Alfredo Nieves Moreno, Ifeoma C. K. Nwankwo, Deborah Pacini Hernandez, Raquel Z. Rivera, Welmo Romero Joseph, Christoph Twickel, Alexandra T. Vazquez