Word: connors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thing that fired the great postwar revival of folk song), they are singing with hot-eyed fervor about police dogs and racial murder. Sometimes they use serviceable old tunes, but just as often they are writing new ones about fresh heroes and villains, from Martin Luther King to Bull Connor. In Chicago, integrationist songs are sung not only at the North Side's grubby Fickle Pickle but also in the Camellia House of The Drake. In a cocktail lounge in Ogunquit, Me., a college girl shouts out: "Sing something about integration." Seeger has done so before a crowd...
...prevailing integrationist theme made its most remarkable inroad at last week's Newport Jazz Festival. Folk is strictly music non grata at Newport. But there stood Duke Ellington singing about King and Bull Connor...
...done-in and dying cowboy has been replaced by victims of racial violence like Medgar Evers. The stock villains, besides Policeman Connor, include Ross Barnett, "Mr. Woolworth" and, occasionally, John Kennedy. On the other side of the fence, Dallas Folk Singer Hermes Nye has been singing a bitterly resigned ditty called Mine Eyes Have Seen the Coming of the N.A.A.C.P...
...arid and unmoving, and certainly these songs include a lot that is unoriginal drivel. But the same can be said of any body of folk music. After time and taste sort out the songs that integration in the U.S. is marching to, one called Bull Connor's Jail is likely to last. Written last spring by Guy Carawan, a highly regarded California folk singer arrested at a Birmingham protest meeting, it truly says...
...ultraconservative Roman Catholic clergy still heavily censors the arts and entertainment. At one time or another, many of the best native authors have been banned from libraries, including works by George Moore, Liam O'Flaherty, O'Casey, Frank O'Connor, Shaw, Brendan Behan. But things are easing up a little. Cinematic sex has become so much sexier and more frequent, ex plains Justice Minister Haughey, that the censors have been told to go easy with the scissors, "or else our cinemas won't get any films at all." Another sign of the new liberality...