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troubled days
“What this country needs most,” President Herbert Hoover remarked to Christopher Morley early into the Great Depression, “is a great poet.” Inspiration in a time of despair, solace under loss, fortitude under grinding anxiety, are best supplied by such a … Continue reading
get rid of it in the interests of the rich
Secular humanism. Atheism. Modernism, Moral relativism. All parts of liberalist ideology? We are all the same and there is no difference. Even a five year old could assert its a bald faced lie and the entire premise of multi-culturism and equality … Continue reading
the fifties: east side stories
We have been through trying times these past several years. The urge to look back on what is perceived as a ahppier, simpler time is naturally very strong. We tend to canonize the fifties as stable and reassuring, a Golden … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Alan Lomax, Alger Hiss, Arthur Miller, Danny kaye, Dorothy Parker, Humphrey Bogart, lena horne, Leonard Bernstein, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, McCarthy with hunts, Olin Downes, Orson Welles, Pete Seeger, Red Channels pamphlet HUAC, Roy Acuff, Roy Cohn, Senator Joseph A. McCarthy
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twisting and shouting: father of singing poetry
A lot of shouting. Vachel Lindsay was certainly no Longfellow, no Whittier. What was the fellow trying to prove anyway? Lindsay could have told them. He thought of himself as an artistic originator whose “New Poetry” would, in short order, … Continue reading
Posted in Literature/poetry/spoken word, Madame Pickwick Weekend, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged Bob Dylan, Edgar Allan Poe, Hazelton Spencer, Joel Spingarn, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Pete Seeger, T.R. Hummer, Tuli Kupferberg, Vachel Lindsay, Vachel Lindsay Congo, William Blake, Woody Guthrie
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blurring the lines
by Art Chantry yesterday a new friend gave me an old victrola – a beautiful cabinet model in a horizontal consul and all the fittings (even the tone arm is brass!) it’s a gorgeous thing ( thank you, sonya!) inside … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged album cover art, album graphics, alex steinweiss, art chantry, federal arts program WPA, Leadbelly, lotte lenya, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, meade "lux" lewis, moses asch, Moses Asch Folkways Records, Pete Seeger, ruth gikow, Woody Guthrie
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muckrakers and culture stakers
The pop culture world. We just have to accept it until it runs its course. And the cycle could be very long until it unravels, like a balance sheet depression or a life long illness or addiction that may take … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Gerhard Richter, Guy Debord, Jean Genet, john collier, Joseph Beuys, joseph heath, Joseph Schumpeter, lincoln steffens, Max Horkheimer, Michael Moore, Pete Seeger, Peter Max, the muckrakers, Theodor Adorno, Thomas Frank, yvelyne wood
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flaneurs and collectors
A fascination with the banal, the purely mediocre or downright almost instantly obsolescent; the unspectacular and all that is the antithesis of the Society of the Spectacle. An effort to exploit, better still, to redefine and re-perceive the radical potential … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged arlo guthrie, Charles Baudelaire, Franz Hessel, Franz Kafka, Franz Rosenzweig, Frederico Fellini, Gustave Caillebotte, Harold Bloom, Max Horkheimer, occupy wall street, Pete Seeger, Walter Benjamin
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BOUND FOR GLORY?: TALKING ABOUT BAGISM, SHAGISM, DRAGISM…
” Jean Renoir’s Grand Illusion throws many people for a loop the first time they see it. Its reputation as one of the great works of cinema leads them to expect an eye-popper like Citizen Kane, or a work such … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Albert Camus, Aldous Huxley, Arthur Koestler, Citizen Kane, Edvard Munch, Friedrich Nietzsche, G.B. Pabst, Gordon W. Allport, Heinrich Heine, Herbert Spencer, Jack Kerouac, James J. Sheehan, James Leahy, Jean Gabin, Jean Paul Sartre, John Lennon, John Rader Platt, Joseph Goebbels, Julian Huxley, La Grande Illusion Jean Renoir, Lewis Milestone, Martin O'Shaugnessy, Max Weber, Noam Chomsky, Norman Angell, Orson Welles, Oswald Spengler, Pete Seeger, Robert Brent Toplin, Robin Bates, Sigmund Freud, The Doors, The Doors Jim Morrison, Timothy Leary, Tom Block, Tom Paxton, Viktor Frankl, Yoko Ono
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Dylan Not There, Yet Everywhere
The theories and opinions of the German philosopher Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno (1903-1969) on popular music and the culture industry are still highly influential in the domain of media studies. His thoughts about these subjects were very critical, pessimistic even. Adorno … Continue reading
Pete Seeger & The Road to Woodstock ( part b )
“They had the complexion of wealth, that clear white skin which is accentuated by the pallor of porcelain, the shimmer of satin, the finish on handsome furniture, and is maintained at its best by a modest diet of exquisite foods … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous
Tagged Artie Kornfeld, Artie Ripp, Babson College, BNN, Eli Kazan, Flaubert, Frank Genovese, Freud, Ghandi, Gustave Flaubert, Howard Green, Jesus, Madame Bovary, Mark Jenkins, Michael Lang, On The Waterfront, Pete Seeger, Sigmind freud, The Road to Woodstock, Wobblie, Wobblies, Woody Guthrie
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