inspiredbythesoundsofthepastnow

Managed to catch up with some reading Yeah Yeah Yeah the history of Pop Music is most excellent – I’ve been reading it next to a lap top and so combining the sounds and images of the past with the words of Bob Stanley some of the gems are when rock and roll didn’t have a name and they were making it up as they went along.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7OHg5d8Zkw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0il2Qd3jcs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_f9lrXd_48

So far I’m up to British Beat Groups...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuszDqPhEL0

and then there are the Beatles...the book has really turned up the grit in these tracks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlW3SolhcIo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d-Z7vakj4s

I think we have all been inspired and/or had our thoughts on creativity and education confirmed by watching Ken Robinson’s TED lecture – how schools kill creativity http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html His new book continues the theme, widening ideas around education  with stirring examples of individuals finding their element.

bloodandself

looking at my notes - memory is fiction - men are superfluous even in their own lives - cookie cutter characters - writing praxis - looming otherness - shape shifting, writing from the perspective of female gender - haptic quality - transformation gamma - bourgeois mediated discourse - collective deluzean state - creating sense where there is no sense - anthropology is cultural imperialism  - yes I went to listen to Will Self talking with Bernardo Carvalho as part of Flipside at Snape Maltings http://www.flipsidefestival.co.uk/welcome.aspx most excellent, entertaining and informing with just a hint of menace.
meanwhile - late to this I know but have returned to Akala via TED Aldeburgh where I last saw him and have become a fan, founder of The hip hop Shakespeare Company http://www.hiphopshakespeare.com/site/about/ which in itself is wonderful - check out the shakespear v hip hop lyric  at TED  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSbtkLA3GrY and to get a handle on his lyrics the series fire in the booth has to be visited.