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Does anyone remember the TV sitcom Citizen Smith? Oh yes, was mentioned in the camp thread here (post 71). I also brought it up in a lecture once about how approaches to performance practice can utterly change the way something is perceived  . For those who don't remember the programme, the opening and closing titles can be viewed here (are those the steps at the South Bank, by Waterloo Bridge, that he is climbing for the third 'Power to the People'?). |
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'These acts of keeping politics out of music, however, do not prevent musicology from being a political act . . .they assure that every apolitical act assumes a greater political immediacy' - Philip Bohlman, 'Musicology as a Political Act'
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« Reply #76 on: 10:04:36, 15-05-2007 » |
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Does anyone remember the TV sitcom Citizen Smith? Remarkably clearly. Regarding Cliff Richard, he was the fictitious hero of another TV-wanna-revolutionary - Rick, the "People's Poet" in "The Young Ones". |
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"I was, for several months, mutely in love with a coloratura soprano, who seemed to me to have wafted straight from Paradise to the stage of the Odessa Opera-House"
- Leon Trotsky, "My Life"
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« Reply #77 on: 10:51:51, 15-05-2007 » |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #78 on: 11:27:37, 15-05-2007 » |
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Shhhh, don't tell everyone - that was supposed to be a secret until Blair finally left office |
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"I was, for several months, mutely in love with a coloratura soprano, who seemed to me to have wafted straight from Paradise to the stage of the Odessa Opera-House"
- Leon Trotsky, "My Life"
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« Reply #79 on: 12:01:17, 15-05-2007 » |
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eurovision has been a family party for years, we use it as an occasion for communal joy. the kids all sang along and remebered the Ukrainian entry, and also really loved the French pink punk pop entry. everyone hated the serbian dirge that won and got really cross with Malta for giving the UK 12 points, along with some other country they ruined a perfect evening, our national ambition was a resounding nil point!
it's bread and circuses innit?
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It's just a matter of time before we're late.
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« Reply #80 on: 16:56:52, 15-05-2007 » |
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Doing wavy things with your arms in these parts can be interpreted as a sign of aggression, or impending contraflow, insurance job with the lighters in the dark,which is probably why Catford's entry didn't get too far and that Celine Dion had a rough time of it when she last played the dog track.
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'...A celebrity is someone who didn't get the attention they needed as an adult'
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« Reply #81 on: 07:03:04, 16-05-2007 » |
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Shhhh, don't tell everyone - that was supposed to be a secret until Blair finally left office But surely while he's been in office it has been generally understood that "secrets" are things which, by definition, are for journalistic and other leaking only? By the way, I had once thought that one of the "songs" once performed by the egregious Harry Rodger Webb (aka Sir Cliff Hanger-in) was entitled Live on Dole until I listened more carefully - but then perhaps I should hve reserved that one for Ian's new "bourgeoisie" thread... Best, Alistair |
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« Reply #82 on: 21:43:35, 23-05-2007 » |
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I often disagree violently with Germaine Greer about everything, but I thought that this was an interesting and sensitive piece of writing: http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,2084275,00.htmlHer reasoning may be at fault, but I hope you'll enjoy reading the article as much as I did. |
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'is this all we can do?' anonymous student of the University of Berkeley, California quoted in H. Draper, 'The new student revolt' (New York: Grove Press, 1965) http://www.myspace.com/itensemble |
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« Reply #83 on: 21:52:00, 23-05-2007 » |
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I often disagree violently with Germaine Greer about everything, Ditto... but I thought that this was an interesting and sensitive piece of writing:
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« Reply #84 on: 21:54:08, 23-05-2007 » |
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I have to say i couldnt bear to watch the thing, but art, or a brave stab at it,seems to have won through. i can remember a drumming interlude before the voting a year or two back was brilliant. I must hunt for this song online.As Ian said a while back, a country doing its indigineous thing without (campery) should-and can-make the genre work.
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'...A celebrity is someone who didn't get the attention they needed as an adult'
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« Reply #85 on: 22:27:30, 23-05-2007 » |
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Hmmm. It's touching. But. Maybe should look up the lyrics, I guess, before saying more about it.
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« Reply #87 on: 22:27:13, 24-05-2007 » |
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As the votes were being counted I did think 'why is this winning?', but it ws a gd performance, the only problem is I couldn't lock onto a hook.
I really liked the Bulgarian one with the proggy-ish percussion set-up.
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