A ticket cost a nickel and the speeches were free everybody was angelic and sentimental about the workers it was all so sincere you have no idea what a good thing the party was in 1935 Scott Nearing was a grand old man a real mensch
Is it an iron law, I ask, that all pieces of music in which a text is read, not sung, not even speak-sung, to a jazzy accompaniment must sound vaguely similar? Must the texts have if not similar themes then at least similar moods? This questions is prompted by Blue Cranes' "Dear Howard", text by Nico Alvarado-Greenwood, which recalls Allen Ginsberg reading "America" while Tom Waits gets acquainted with a piano (here's some bad audio quality), "Blue" Gene Tyranny's "A Letter From Home Concerning Time and Consciousness", and Harry Partch's "Letter" (which isn't even particularly jazzy)—three of these four also have epistolary lyrics. And the ability to have that question prompted in that way is prompted by my receipt, today, of eight CDs ordered from Wayside Music, about the existence of many of which, including the Blue Cranes CD, I had completely forgotten. I opened the package and: what are these? Did I order this? I've never heard of these people! But all is in fact in order. I can look forward to a similar delivery soon from (yech) Amazon, of The Jargon of Authenticity, Sincerity and Authenticity, and The Ethics of Authenticity. Had I remembered I would also have gotten The Ethics of Ambiguity. Those who can detect a theme in my hopeful reading material are hereby offered a cookie or some such in reward.
Comments
on 2007-07-26 23:13:42.0, Kara commented:
I am not a philosopher, and therefore detect only that your reading material seems Very Grave. Also, something about authenticity seems to be drifting about in there, but that's just me. How about, if I am at all right, rather than my winning a cookie, you have to eat another one of mine?
and, further, on 2007-07-27 8:52:06.0, ben wolfson commented:
I might could see myself to eating such a cookie.