Lee Dorsey
26/04/2011
Axé.
Category: Songs
Pouring Sugar
22/04/2011
In class we saw Antonioni’s Blow-Up in connection with the Devil’s spit (ask if you must, and I’ll link when I can). It was quite exotic as all the students were born after this film was made. I was a child. The true class to give would be on sugar as a social actor. Sweetness … More Pouring Sugar
“Debajo de un rebozo, tapar las penas”
21/04/2011
We have been discussing my identity on this blog. Let there be no doubt: I am Mexican. I was invited to be Mexican long ago, and after some deliberation I accepted. Mexican though I may be, Mexican that I am, I cannot go home because I have expenses, which I am negotiating in the oral … More “Debajo de un rebozo, tapar las penas”
Rakefet
18/04/2011
This is the lively song I choose for one who died today, recorded the year he was born. Axé.
Mujer Ladina
15/04/2011
“Mujer andina, te vengo a cantar mis penas y mis dolores,” says the huayno, but for this weekend I wanted to put up Greco-Portuguese and Sephardic music sung by other beautiful women. But video is not embedding for me and anyway I am in Greater Mexico now; in its honor I offer you Mujer ladina, … More Mujer Ladina
Ron Trent
09/04/2011
Axé.
On dorm la lluna blanca
07/04/2011
The Catalan anarchist Salvador Puig Antich was garroted March 2, 1974. We went down from Jutland at Easter, to spend a week in the sun. I signed up to study in Barcelona, and learned many Lluís Llach songs. This is one of the most beautiful. It is about the 1974 rebellion in Portugal, but I … More On dorm la lluna blanca
Childhood Living
05/04/2011
I never paid a great deal of attention to this song as it was ubiquitous — on every radio station, in every faded dime store, and wafting from every surf wagon. But it came to me the other day and I have been thinking of it since. It really is quite brilliant. Axé.
Miguel Hernández
04/04/2011
Check out Joan Manuel Serrat singing this famous poem, and observe these amazing Civil War photographs from Spain. Hernández wrote the poem in a Nationalist prison, upon receiving a letter from his wife saying she and the child were living on bread and onions. Here, Maria de Medeiros sings it. Axé.
Monday Music
03/04/2011
…so as to get into things. This version of Viva mi patria Bolivia, from the concert at Sing Sing, was gone from the Internet but it is back, so we will post it again. Here is the original. ¡Adentro! Bolivia is one of the very best countries. Axé.
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