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Radio May Podcasting

May 09, 2010 13:55

102.3FM Radio Centre-Ville Chinese-language music show: Yin Yue Da Tong (Tu 10:30-11:30PM)

Episode 15: May 4 - Faye Wong, Sarah McLachlan, Tsuji Ayano, The Pancakes, mento (traditional Jamaican pop)
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( Basically I was listening to a Pancakes album Ced sent me and realized the first song was a cover of Jamaica Farewell )

radio, thank god for youtube

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Had a boyish smile and a hard-core hostility koganbot May 9 2010, 19:55:24 UTC

Belafonte came up on lj last year as part of a conversation about the groundbreaking early rock critic Paul Nelson, who'd begun as a folk-music critic. Nelson or his co-editor had called him Belaphony in response to Belafonte's album of chain gang songs. By coincidence, Chuck Eddy heard the album last summer (he thought it was pretty terrible). Paul Nelson would later champion Bob Dylan when Dylan supposedly sold out by going electric and playing rock 'n' roll. What's interesting about that is that Dylan loved Belafonte, said this about him in Chronicles:

He was dramatic and intense on the screen, had a boyish smile and a hard-core hostility... Everything about him was gigantic. The folk purists had a problem with him, but Harry - who could have kicked the shit out of all of them - couldn't be bothered, said that all folksingers were interpreters, said it in a public way as if someone had summoned him to set the record straight.Link to stuff about Nelson and crew and their attitude towards Belafonte ( ... )

Re: Had a boyish smile and a hard-core hostility koganbot May 9 2010, 19:57:10 UTC

By coincidence, Chuck Eddy heard the album last summer (he thought it was pretty terrible). Paul Nelson would later champion Bob Dylan when Dylan supposedly sold out by going electric and playing rock 'n' roll.

The "later champion" means "after calling Belafonte a phony in the late '50s/early '60s," not "after Chuck heard the album last summer."

Re: Had a boyish smile and a hard-core hostility petronia May 10 2010, 04:13:32 UTC

I've never heard anything by Harry Belafonte beyond Calypso. (Which, as per anything massively familiar from childhood, I'm incapable of passing aesthetic judgment on.) I like that description of him, though - it's why I posted the video, dude just had that intensity that jumped off the screen.

Re: Had a boyish smile and a hard-core hostility koganbot May 10 2010, 04:35:30 UTC

Belafonte was also a civil rights activist. Iirc, he played a role in organizing the famous march on Washington in 1963 (the one at which Martin Luther King gave his famous "I have a dream" speech).