Issue 249 • July/August 2008
Music for Transformation
Welcome
Music for Transformation • Satish Kumar
Music is the undercurrent to our collective subconsious.
Frontline
On Yer Bike • Paul Kingsnorth
A climate-friendly transport initiative.
Reasons to be cheerful • Paul Kingsnorth
The successful defence of the 'Merton Rule'.
Songs for Action • Paul Kingsnorth
Tackling and preventing HIV.
Artists' Project Earth • Kenny Young
Addressing climate change through the arts.
Quotes
Revolution • Emma Goldman
If I cannot sing and dance.
Music For Transformation
What is Music? • Annie Lennox
Music is a wonderful gift to humanity.
Conversations and Crossroads • Mark Kidel
Musical traditions need both openness and protection to evolve.
Letting Go • Howard Milner
Singing connects us to our feelings.
A Living Force • Gavin Henderson
Dartington Summer School nurtures the alchemy of music.
Beauty Speaks • Ian Skelly
Music, like Nature, is made up of harmonic patterns.
The Times They Are A-Changing' • Bob Dylan
Inspiration and Contemplation • Sara Mohr Pietsch
Music inspired by the sounds and force of Nature.
Colourful Learning • Michael Maxwell Steer
A new approach to teaching music.
Freestyling • Brian Eno
Acapella: the joy of making a beautiful sound.
Songs of Conscience • Joni Mitchell, Annie Lennox & Leonard Cohen
Music with a message.
Undercurrents
Sublime Expression • Philip Marsden
Nature is being re-examined by modern writers.
Back to our roots • Lorna Howarth
Nurturing the soil for future generations.
Climate Change
Burning Ice • David Buckland
An introduction to the Cape Farewell Project.
Frozen Light • Angus McDonald
The sublime wonder of sea ice.
Melting Gods • Nick Hunt
Climate change even affects our religious beliefs.
Cold Continent • Martin Redfern
The changing nature of Antarctica.
Regulars
Voice From The South - Double Standards • Vandana Shiva
Corporate responsibility for pollution.
Slow Travel - Footpaths to the festival • Merlin Sheldrake
A remarkable feeling of adventure.
Letter from America - Full Circle • Daniel Bellow
Community-supported agriculture.
Recipes - Summer Spirit • Daphne Lambert
Celebrating the summer harvest.
Gardening - Landmatters • Brigitte Norland
Living on the land.
Members' Page • Tracey Benton
Resurgence Slow Sunday.
Reviews
In My Own Words: Ocean Voice • David Rothenberg
Thousand Mile Song: Whale Music in a Sea of Sound.
In My Own Words: Divine Order • Frank Lyons
The Creative Gap.
In My Own Words: Singing Field • Chloë Goodchild
Sound Intelligence - A New Language of Consciousness.
The man who mistook neurology for music • Lorna Howarth
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, Oliver Sacks.
Hope Springs Eternal • Miguel Mendonça
Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity and Courage in a World Gone Mad, Frances Moore Lappé.
Assuring the Future • David Krieger
The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger, Jonathan Schell.
Swept Away • Tony Juniper
Real England, Paul Kingsnorth.
Cultural Militant • John Moat
Blackness and the Dreaming Soul, Cy Grant.
About a Man • Natalie Moore
Wendell Berry: Life and Work, edited by Jason Peters.
End Time • Mary Tasker
Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia, John Gray.
Intense Images • John Lane
Koudelka, Robert Delpire | Dominique Eddé | Michel Frizot | Anna Fárová
Only Connect? • Ken Worpole
The Earth Only Endures: On Reconnecting with Nature and Our Place in It, Jules Pretty.
A Sense of Place • Philip Conford
Field Work: Selected Essays, Ronald Blythe.
Eating and Acting • Geoff Tansey
Stuffed and Starved: Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for the World Food System, Raj Patel.
Holy Fools and Serious Play • James Clarke
Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth and Art, Lewis Hyde.
Web Exclusives
Grounded Design • Barbara Tremain Howard
Sticks, Stones and Mud Homes: Natural Living, Nigel Noyes
Let's have some decent bread • Andrew Whitley
It's easy to make proper bread if you give it time.
Five-minute Interview • Donna Duggan
Idealism and Inspiration
