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Post by echnaton on May 31, 2011 20:03:43 GMT -4
American poet and performer Gil Scott-Heron died last week. His mostly racially oriented protest songs bridged beat poetry to rap and laid the foundation for various forms of black music today.
Here is the one that made him famous, to the extent he was.
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
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Post by lionking on Jun 1, 2011 3:03:09 GMT -4
the words are meaningful, but the music is not good. here we have some communists, one of them is the son of the famous singer fairouz, who creates such songs and criticize social and humanitarian issues.
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Post by echnaton on Jun 1, 2011 8:04:44 GMT -4
What's wrong with bongo drums?
The sound is decidedly from its generation. Mixing spoken words and bongo drums is part of Beat poetry. Tim Minchen does it with a modern synth track, but the artistic idea is the same. Usually associated with protest songs and never really popular, by the time Scott-Heron first performed this song in 1967, the practice was a decade old. I think this song is the most popular and enduring recording of the style.
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Post by lionking on Jun 2, 2011 2:46:09 GMT -4
then the taste of music is different between cultures.. what I hear of music seems monotonous..
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Post by echnaton on Jun 2, 2011 19:06:16 GMT -4
then the taste of music is different between cultures.. what I hear of music seems monotonous.. I see. What I hear is a hip sound of the beat poets. Bongo drums are certainly not something I'd listen to much, but they serve well as a accompaniment for the spoken word.
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Post by lionking on Jun 3, 2011 3:31:22 GMT -4
Here is a song called Wthout Nothing, or A leftist Love. I translated it..when the music is nice and romantic it helps the ideas.. If you want I can translate more songs www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-LZdQP5_Po&feature=related Without nothing I love you Without nothing and there is no , in this love, any money and it is impossible that there is any Liras* in it and it is impossible that there is any lands in it and there is no jewelry Let us sit in the shadow for nobody is this shadow love me and think a little bit
Without nothing you alone Without nothing without all the types of your dresses without everything that has decoration without all the friends of your friends the heavy and the cute
Let us sit in the shadow for nobody is this shadow love me and think a little bit
Chorus: let us sit, let us sit
Without the chorus of your mother and your father and eyelashes and Maskara without the weeving of the women without all this scorn
Let us sit in the shadow for nobody is this shadow love me and think a little bit
i]Chorus[/i]: let us sit Let us sit in the shadow for nobody is this shadow love me and think a little bit Without Nothing [/b] Lira in is the currency in Lebanon , like dollar in the US
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