And we drank ourselves some beers. Cat's in the Cradle. "I felt comfortable in listening to some piece of music that was not from my neighborhood. Tonally, the song is by far the most complex on the album, beginning in minor and ascending by step to C minor. I think Still Crazy After All These Years is among his top-five solo efforts, and it is an album that everyone needs to hear. Once again assisted by top session cats, from Cornell Dupree, David Spinozza, Barry Beckett, Paul Griffin and Roger Hawkins to Airto Moreira and gospel vocal group The Dixie Hummingbirds, There Goes Rhymin' Simon is carefree and upbeat, track by track, each song a joy. I think Still Crazy After All These Years was the last classic Simon album before there was a little dip with 1980's One-Tricky Pony. They still keep in touch, he said. E., "Gone At Last, " "Have A Good Time, " and "You're Kind" (Example 5). With the demise of the marriage the protagonist finishes reflecting on his past and now considers his present situation, initiating the next section of the cycle. An insular record made with producer Phil Ramone and a handful of New York session players, it's also rather monochromatic sounding, the muted drums and flat acoustic guitars perhaps mirroring Simon's state of mind.
The second one, leading to G minor in no. Remastered at Sterling Sound and pressed at RTI, these are beautiful pressings with equally pristine covers, also restored to their original colors. He isn't a big guy and hasn't a big voice, just a light, floating tenor. But he wasn't crazy about what "Still Crazy" told him about himself. Goes Out newsletter, with the week's best events, to help you explore and experience our city. The Call of the Wild. Coming Around Again. By Traveling Wilburys. Hit single "My Little Town" marked a reunion of sorts with Art Garfunkel, but the overall mood is bitter, disillusioned and cynical as in the bitchy "Have a Good Time. Includes 1 print + interactive copy with lifetime access in our free apps. Tonally, the song hinges on the conflict between the keys of G major and A major, and the progression of descending fifths, E-A-D-G. Like many songs on the album, "Still Crazy After All These Years" is based on 32-bar song form, A A B A. This suggests that, while the marital breakup is too painful a prospect to be addressed directly, its inevitability is musically symbolized by the resolution to G major. Simon's revision of the original version of the song carries the prospect of salvation almost to the point of realization, in spite of the lack of commitment to love in the preceding song.
The Sounds of Simon: Singer Returns To Central Park (Without Garfunkel) For HBO Concert. With respect to the song's structure—as well as that of the album as cycle—Simon's most important revision is the recall of the gospel chorus, this time a minor 3rd higher in F major. Still Crazy After All These Years won two Grammy Awards for Album of the Year, and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance in 1976, and it contains two of Simon's best-ever songs: 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover, and Still Crazy After All These Years. "Still Crazy, " however, veers back and forth between A major and G major from the introduction to the ending.
On Simon's work, any more than that of Wagner's influence on the Beatles, simply because they share in the use of a double tonic complex. In simplest terms, for the former a pattern is stated, typically at the opening of a work in prominent fashion, and later is replicated, possibly transformed and expanded; hence the subsequent completion of the pattern may be weighed against its original statement. Section A3 then proceeds as before until the words "Halfway to Jerusalem, " where the progression leads to 9, initiating the motion away from A major. "It just seemed like a good idea, " Simon said, deadpan. Earlier I suggested possible analogies between "Still Crazy After All These Years" and earlier art songs and cycles. He even commented on the state of the country in "American Tune, " singing of feeling "weary to my bones" and offering the kicker anti-war line "you can't expect to be bright and bon vivant so far away from home.
I shall then focus on two musical principles—association and pattern completion—that, together with the narrative, contribute to large-scale musical coherence and closure. Top Tabs & Chords by Paul Simon, don't miss these songs! Each comes with a download card for your deepest digital delights (maybe your kid wants to hear Paul Simon in iTunes). And I didn't feel that it was weird. Plotwise, Part I of the narrative introduces the protagonist in the opening song and in flashback describes his childhood, his marriage and its breakup. Heading For The Light. Sometimes there are second verses, and I say, "Oh, that's really not a second verse; it's a first verse. Moreover, "Silent Eyes" is the only song that truly combines harmonically complex and simple idioms, thereby placing it on both sides of the musical and narrative divide. Still Crazy... was a huge success for Simon, but the recording quality had nothing to do with it. That is quite a coughing-up, and a very long way from the innocent, low-budget doo-wop days of the '50s in Queens, New York, when he considered himself lucky to get booked at a teen dance in a church basement. The first pattern spans the first three songs and comprises a descending fifths motion from and back to G, with a strong emphasis on E-A-D-G, first heard in the introduction to the title song; in "50 Ways To Leave Your Lover, " the truncation of this motion to E-G serves as a sort of harmonic summary gesture. 10 The term "associative tonality" was coined by Robert Bailey in "The Structure of the Ring and its Evolution, " 19th-Century Music 1, no. 5 The record number is Columbia, PC33540, © 1975; it was released on compact disk by Warner Records, 25591-2. Translation by Philip L. Miller.
Each additional print is $4. Retaining the musical feel of Paul Simon, but attaining a more produced, glossier yet still soulful production sheen, Simon reveled in songs where every genre he touched, each stylistic shift, hit paydirt gold both financially and creatively. I probably wouldn't think that way at all". Or "An American Tune"? E., songs that advance the sequence of events understood as a "story"—and non-narrative songs, marked in the example with an asterisk. At the concluding words "War alles, alles wieder gut! Then "Silent Eyes" proceeds to reverse the progression, this time stating each of the tonicized areas first in major, then in the parallel minor.
Positive Feedback ISSUE 72. The sound, though not as detailed, dynamic and rich as the three-years-in-the-future There Goes Rhymin' Simon thoroughly relates its folk storyteller leanings. 35 As we have seen, Simon's "I Do It For Your Love" is strikingly similar in its musical depiction of irony, associating the concluding tonic resolution with the demise of the marriage, and, conversely, the avoidance of tonic with its remembrance. This was not, as Simon said, the original concept. 3 Third, assertions of cyclic principles are both controversial and difficult to prove, as for example a survey of interpretations of Schumann's Dichterliebe would demonstrate. Alan Sheridan (New York: Columbia University Press, 1982), 133ff. My Little Town reunited Simon with former partner Art Garfunkel for the first time since 1970, while Gone at Last was a duet between Simon and Phoebe Snow.
1986's Graceland changed all that, its pop, a cappella, rock, isicathamiya and mbaqanga (singing styles of the South African Zulus) styles recorded in Johannesburg, South Africa with many local musicians including Ladysmith Black Mambazo. The record as a whole has a very wide soundstage peppered with unusual instrumental sounds darting around the mix like scurrying farm animals. Of course, "My Little Town" also marked a return to working with Art Garfunkel, and another Top Ten entry for S&G. "Love Me Like A Rock" is the zenith of this approach, the Dixie Hummingbirds singing over Simon's playful vocals, Roger Hawkins' drums arcing from channel to channel. In sections A1 and A2 corresponding to verses 1 and 2, closure on the Neapolitan may suggest Jerusalem's sorrow. 37 I emphasize that this is only one of many possible interpretations of Dichterliebe as cycle. 23 Verse 1 reads: We were married on a rainy day / The sky was yellow / And the grass was gray / We signed the papers / And we drove away / I do it for your love // Final verse: The sting of reason / The splash of tears / The northern and the southern / Hemispheres / Love emerges / And it disappears / I do it for your love / I do it for your love // From "I Do It For Your Love, " Copyright 1975 Paul Simon. 3 (Spring 1991): 247ff. The analogy does not end there, however.
Bad Bad Leroy Brown. INCA, que ha participado en el movimiento desde 2010, promueve eventos técnicos, debates y presentaciones sobre el tema, además de producir materiales educativos y otros recursos para difundir información sobre factores protectores y detección temprana del cáncer de seno. On Thursday, Simon and a 17-piece band drawn from five nations will step on stage in Central Park for a free concert of almost three hours. I probably wouldn't describe myself that way. Released in May, 1973 There Goes Rhymin' Simon "Combined a variety of musical textures (from a touch of gospel to an infectious trace of Jamaican rhythm to a hint of the old Simon and Garfunkel grandeur), " wrote LA Times critic Robert Hilburn. 4 These are too numerous to cite here.
Love is a recurring theme in bell hooks' thought, where it is explicitly linked to her understanding of freedom and liberation. Folks want to know how to begin the practice of loving. The art of relationships. Cornel West once wrote that "justice is what love looks like in public. " Other things she's written that resonate powerfully include these words, from her breath-taking treatise All About Love, "Will also implies choice.
Bell hooks quotes a passage in Joanna Macy's book "In World as Lover; World as Self" writing, "The refusal to feel takes a heavy toll. All too often we found a will to include those considered 'marginal' without a willingness to accord their work the same respect and consideration given other works. Readings & Resources. I guess if you look at my children's books, I like Be Boy Buzz the best. Some who use the language of diversity as a smokescreen, while continuing to discriminate against scholars of colour, will also cite her. Neohumanism thus aims to relocate the self from ego (and the pursuit of individual maximisation), from family (and the pride of genealogy), from geo-sentiments (attachments to land and nation), from socio-sentiments (attachments to class, race and religious community), from humanism (the human being as the centre of the universe) to neohumanism (love and devotion for all, inanimate and animate, beings of the universe). Initially well-educated white women from working class backgrounds were more visible than black females of all classes in the feminist movement. The book seeks to ethnographically analyse and explore what could be termed religious ecotopias, different religious visions of nature (and humanity and the human-nature interaction), as expressed in the 'field of religion and ecology', a new religious-environmental movement that seeks to challenge modern secular views that it sees as leading to environmentally destructive thought and actions and create new ones based in religious traditions. Feminism is part of a larger prescription necessary to help heal the world. The following are quotes we picked out from bell hooks' article, "Love as a Practice of Freedom" alongside questions to help spur conversation: Without love, our efforts to liberate ourselves and our world community from oppression and exploitation are doomed… Without an ethic of love shaping the direction of our political vision and our radical aspirations, we are often seduced, in one way or the other, into continued allegiance to systems of domination—imperialism, sexism, racism, classism.
Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life. But, bell hooks spoke in ways few other feminists did, and she showed me, through her writing, the bigger picture of domination, alienation, and so forth. Working class women already knew that the wages they received would not liberate them. Are these books in any way political? Peck offers a working definition for love that is useful for those of us who would like to make a love ethic the core of all human interaction. Here I will give you thunder. But first, a sample of memorials to honour the range and depth of appreciation for bell hooks' contributions to social justice movements: - Tributes flow for 'giant, no nonsense' feminist author, educator, activist and poet bell hooks, ABC News (Australia), 2021. African American theologian Howard Thurman believed that we best learn love as the practice of freedom in the context of community. Why do you suppose the author introduces these figures? Our critique and outrage gained a hearing in the alternative press.
Judging from any quick glance a bookstore's top sellers, and looking at the pop-Guru status of people like Oprah Winfrey and Deepak Chopra, it is clear to us that people are looking for something – happiness, meaning – a way out of fear. If we're Dick's sister and want what he has gotten, then in the end we support that system that he got it all from. Big Thinker: bell hooks, article for the Ethics Center by Kate Prendergast, 2019. Christian Visions 140 Ch 8. Focusing on questions of power keeps us in a relatively measurable world, it allows us to gauge wins and losses, it helps us to understand struggles for control and domination. We choose to love. " If black folks are to move forward in our struggle for liberation, we must confront the legacy of this unreconciled grief, for it has been the breeding ground for profound nihilistic despair. I feel it is as pertinent now as when I first read it 15 years ago.
When women acquired greater class status and power without conducting themselves differently from males feminist politics were undermined. This paper calls for a revolutionized reflection of Gandhi and King's non-violent philosophy. Hooks: I would say one difference with the political writings, whether about feminism or class, is that the intent is to change how people think of a certain political reality; whereas with cultural criticism, the goal is to illuminate something that is already there. Randy: We're interviewing bell hooks, author of Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center; Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations and numerous other titles. Many of the ideas articulated by bell hooks have resonated widely. Contemporary songs like Tina Turner's "What's Love Got To Do With It" advocate a system of exchange around desire, mirroring the economics of capitalism: the idea that love is important is mocked. If anything I think postmodernism has the least impact on my work. "Feminism is neither a lifestyle nor a ready-made identity or role one can step into […] it is necessarily a struggle to eradicate the ideology of domination that permeates Western culture [... ]" (p. 24 & 26, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center. Commenting on the collective sense of spiritual loss in modern society, Cornel West asserts: There is a pervasive impoverishment of the spirit in American society, and especially among Black people. They were a minority within the movement, but theirs was the voice of experience. Loving Ourselves Free: Radical Acceptance in bell hooks' 'All About Love: New Visions', article for Arts Help by Shakeelah Ismail, 2021. The only genuine hope of feminist liberation lies with a vision of social change which challenges class elitism. Thomas Merton argues that we are taught within the framework of competitive consumer capitalism to see love as a business deal: "This concept of love assumes that the machinery of buying and selling of needs is what makes everything run.
What practices lie within an ethic of love? I came to theory desperate, wanting to comprehend—to grasp what was happening around and within me. Right now in his life, racism isn't the central highlighting force: it's the world of work and economics. Do you have anything to say to our audience, off the cuff?
Writing Beyond Race: Living Theory and Practice, 2013. In part, we learn to love by giving service. Often when Cornel West and I speak with large groups of black folks about the impoverishment of spirit in black life, the lovelessness, sharing that we can collectively recover ourselves in love, the response is overwhelming. Humanities JournalUnshackling the Body, Mind, and Spirit: Reflections on Liberation and Creative Exchange between San Quentin and Auckland Prisons. Hooks writes, "to love well is the task of all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds". What blind spots might be obstructing our path towards collective liberation? It's interesting to look at all the aspects where everyday Americans, many of whom are not college educated, are thinking deeply now about our economic structure. The essay features a number of exemplary characters, from Martin Luther King, who illustrates the vast political efficacy of love, to Tina Turner, whose 1984 hit "What's Love Got To Do With It" expresses a contrasting cynicism. The project breaks new practical ground, offering for the first time an application of existential analysis for educational praxis.