The Golden Hour, Marisa Anderson’s second solo record, is inspired by Delta blues, West African guitar, country and western radio from the 60′s and 70′s, gospel, noise, rhythms, cycles, mortality, and praise. The Golden Hour features 12 improvisations for guitar and lap steel. Details »
Mark Twain e le parole proibite
di Alessandro Portelli, da Il Manifesto 11.1.2011
(tutte le immagini a seguire sono di Eudora Welty)
L’ultima pretestuosa polemica sul “politicamente corretto” che ci arriva dall’America è la riproposizione dell’annosa querelle sul linguaggio di uno dei capolavori di quella letteratura, Le avventure di Huckleberry Finn di Mark Twain (1885): si tratta di proprietà di linguaggio perché nel libro compaiono parole indicibili; e di proprietà del linguaggio perché c’è oggi chi si adopera per sostituirle con parole proprie e più educate. E’ una vecchia storia, che comincia nel momento stesso dell’uscita del libro, ma che riproposta oggi parla anche di noi. Details »
“There’s a new book out, Penguin 75, a collection of their best covers. They’ve included the one I did for Jack Kerouac’s Dharma Bums. For some reason I’m credited as Jason Lambiek. I have no idea how they came up with this as my last name. Its a mystery to Paul Buckley, the editor, as well. One of the dangers of using a one name pseudonym, I suppose. Anyway, it’s a very nice book, with a foreword by Chris Ware”.
From Jason’s blog.
Jack Kerouac Featuring Al Cohn & Zoot Sims – Blues And Haikus (1959)
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John Ashbery – Song (1976)
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Allen Ginsberg – America (Berkeley, January 17, 1956)
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