Sunday, June 21, 2009

Arts, Tales, Music, Authors. References. Minority Contributions; Individuals

By Dint:

Themes
1.  Ginkgo

The ginkgo and art nouveau forms
Ginkgo shapes as artistically favored

Goethe and the Ginkgo
Everybody loves the ginkgo, except those who get a female and the fruits-seeds are negatively aromatic. 
 

2. Minorities in theater, film, music
Gypsies: Contemporary performance heritage. Elvis, Charlie Chaplin, Yul Brynner, Michael Caine [ask Mitt - Romney?]

Tales, Song. Johnny Faa. Roma. Find Faa also in song (not do re me)
Ballad of the greatest gypsy of all, say some ladies.

3.  Minorities in Books
Gypsies, Roma, Contemporary Authors Also books about the groups, "Bury Me Standing" by Isabel Fonseca; "Zoli" by Colum McCann

4.  Jewish faith, authors, in books
James Joyce, Ulysses, On Bloomsday
Citizen Questioning Bloodshed:  Isaac Bashevis Singer

5.  Minorities in Music
Placeholders, Work in Progress, "Buika" and Fusion Music 
Roma composers

Gypsy Harps, group and street musicians also from the Zoli book, section "Slovakia 2003" there. The Roma  harps were huge - the Roma would bury them in the woods so they would not be confiscated.

6.  Roma in Film, Poetry
Roma, Romani in film Find talent in this persecuted minority.  Resilience.
Poetry;  Whole or Bits
Poetry, are these from Papusza or Zoli? Arts among the Roma.  Poem forms.

7.  Are soldiers a minority?  Yes. Read the WWI legacy in poetry.
 War Poets.  Poetry from the Trenches.  World War I.

8.  Elections redefine minorities.  
Haiku's Fifth Season: Election Season.  Time to update the seasons for "traditional" haiku theme.

9. Painting - an individual who strived
Artist, Hermann Dahl.  Odessa, DE. Multi-media.1960's-1980's

10.  When art is in code.
Ideological Battleground:  Sistine Chapel
What are Michelangelo's messages about literalism and scripture; why the anomalies, the insults up there.  In a monolithic religious system, how do other messages get out?

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