Kenneth Harrow
Dept of English and Film Studies
Michigan State University
619 Red Cedar Rd
East Lansing, MI 48824
517-803-8839
http://www.english.msu.edu/people/faculty/kenneth-harrow/
Reply-To: usaafricadialogue <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Date: Sunday, 3 September 2017 at 17:42
To: usaafricadialogue <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com>
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Today's Quote
According to al-Islam you may be a musical & poetic genius but you should not play for money etc. ( Playing for money is one of the reasons for all the cheap commercialisations that pass off as "music" according to some beholders...)
Right on Chidi! : as you said, almost like "playing for applause"! What you say is corroborated by Victor Jara in his
Yo no canto por cantar // MANIFIESTO -
The lyrics as faithfully translated by his English wife Joan Jara:
"I don't sing for love of singing
or to show off my voice
but for the statements
made by my honest guitar
for its heart is of earth
and like the dove it goes flying
tenderly as holy water
blessing the brave and the dying
so my song has found a purpose
as Violetta Parra would say
yes, my guitar is a worker
shining and smelling of spring
my guitar is not for killers
greedy for money and power
but for the people who labour
so that future may flower
for a song takes on a meaning
when its own heartbeat is strong
sung by a man who will die singing
truthfully singing his song
I don't sing for adulation
or so that strangers may weep
I sing for a far strip of country
narrow but endlessly deep
in the earth in which we begin
in the earth in which we end
brave songs will give birth
to a song which will always be new"
On Sunday, 3 September 2017 14:48:39 UTC+2, Chidi Anthony Opara wrote:
Edgar Allan Poe is master of melancholic poetry!CAO.
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