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Monday, July 04, 2005
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Here's a fine piece in Counterpunch by Greg Moses on Bob Dylan's America. It's a good, close reading of Chronicles and the songs.
Dylan's counterpunch against the "lame as hell big trick American mainstream culture" was the folksong. "There was nothing easygoing about the folksongs I sang. They were my preceptor and guide into some altered consciousness of reality, some different republic, some liberated republic." He foraged the songs from fellow singers, from 78 records, from archives. He would pitch them fast and hard to his audiences, practicing live in front of people because he couldn't bear up to the experience of practicing alone in some room somewhere rehearsing for who knows who?
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Ry Cooder’s new album tunes into L.A.’s Chavez Ravine and the dawn of Chicano consciousness.
(Via MotherJones.com.)
10:23:34 AM
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I spotted Tempel 1 last night, but only very dimly. I was keeping half an eye on the TV coverage, and finally gave up on it outside, and just watched those fantastic pictures come in from the satellite on TV. What a show. What a great age of exploration we're living in. Thanks to the taxpayers of the US and elsewhere who fund this stuff, and thanks to those who actually are doing the exploration!
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229 years ago today a new experiment in democracy began when citizens of the British American colonies decided enough was enough ...
(Via dailyspeech.net.)
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