Thinking again that maybe the American center left just needs a steady diet of Thaddeus Stevens quotes until they start to relearn HOW to talk the language of protection (the far left will of course follow them like it always does) books.google.com/books?id=OVc...
Be funny if Nigeria or Congo or whoever rules the world one day and smart people say "Well of course their great destiny was obvious after they invented something as unprecedented as African music" like they used to about the cathedrals
Also notice your choice of conveniently punchable Germanophones, because you know if you said nobody likes Stravinsky and Messiaen that wouldn't look as good - though even Stockhausen has a certain following among fans of popular electronic music
The line about price is nothing. No musical product sells like famous artists' paintings, not Mozart manuscripts, not Beatles memorabilia, and all of the above has almost nothing to do with popularity anyway and everything to do with the mechanics of how billionaires invest their money
I was just thinking it's nice that the 50 trad losers and 50,000 poptimist winners who still whine about serialism also whine about Bartók and Stravinsky, proving that their objection was never to serialism per se, and then someone posted Joshua Barone's New York Times clickbait
What's interesting here is the innocent (?) conviction that Stravinsky wasn't popular like Bing Crosby but Picasso was popular like Hollywood and Madison Avenue - and of course that the popular music in the time of Bing, Frank, the Beatles, and Michael was "jazz"
is disingenuous, and probably has origins in racism. The greats of American 20th century music - mostly Jazz are who were truly contemporaneous with Picasso. The "modern" composers who got rammed down our throats in music school deserve a footnote or two.
It's funny how Rexroth was almost right that only reactionaries like Hart Crane but with the minor exceptions of the inventor of modern dance and the only American playwright of international importance
Dare you to say something about European liberal governments prosecuting Palestine supporters for Anti-Semitism (and then something about the Guardian calling Corbyn An Anti-Semitism Problem)
That's nice but maybe you should try making sure that no one on your side who says that "economics" is good and reshoring is bad ever publishes or makes any kind of public statement again, anywhere, ever
Thinking again that maybe the American center left just needs a steady diet of Thaddeus Stevens quotes until they start to relearn HOW to talk the language of protection (the far left will of course follow them like it always does) books.google.com/books?id=OVc...
It's interesting that Germany and France held their own in funk-based rock as of 1968, but less so in the soul-based rock of the mid-'60s, but maybe just proves the originality of the British Invasion - even America needed two years before the Byrds figured out how to localize it
This is just made-up: "Hamilton was confident that the successful suppression of the insurgency would ultimately strengthen the Union. Jefferson once again, pleaded for leniency for the insurgents. Washington’s response found a middle ground."
Jeffrey Rosen lead, in the Atlantic: "Shays’s Rebellion filled Alexander Hamilton with dread." No, he and his cohort were psyched that finally people might listen to them and create a national government with powers to suppress popular dissent from laws enriching the rich at the expense of the poor.
Naipaul on '70s Zaire is interesting because he's describing roughly the same thing as Braudel on the Hanseatic League, except his spin is entropy and Fernand's is Ghibli wholesome - perhaps partly a question of temperament, partly whether you know it's Going Somewhere archive.org/details/retu...
On the other hand, having heard the third epigram he wrote around the time George was making Taxman, I guess I see why people started giving him the time of day
The sonatina Ferneyhough wrote when he was 20 might be the funniest skeleton in a closet I've ever heard, it sounds like Britten! (Specifically the lumberjacks' song in Paul Bunyan, which granted is more or less Grieg's march of the trolls)
Having had my question "Why do all baritones want to be boring like Fischer-Dieskau, doesn't anyone want to be Prey" answered by Huw Montague Rendall, then listened to his papa nail Fuor del mar, I must now regrettably stop making fun of English singers for at least a month
If presentism is a mistake then why does Dante the favorite conservative alternative to Shakespeare think Cato was the best pagan ever while William seems to rather like Julius
You're more right than you know when you call the Greater NATO academia-non-profit axis "the Cathedral," because their capacity for imagining that they're the charitable masters of the world, even when the power of the state behind them evaporates, really does resemble the Church
