Word: poetics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HARRY BELAFONTE heard Nana Mouskouri, 28, singing in a supper club outside Athens and brought her to the U.S. to tour and record with him some Songs from Greece (RCA Victor), with folk lyrics but melodies mostly by Manos (Never on Sunday) Hadjidakis. Greek is a poetic language of love for Belafonte's mellifluous voice (In the Small Boat, Walking on the Moon). Mouskouri adds some dreamlike songs about freedom (The Town Crier, The Baby Snake...
...especially compared with the neurotic fancy-flights of other pianists, is also remarkable for its sanity, directness and healthy emotionalism. Beyond that, he possesses an elegance of tone that is the envy of the profession. With a combination of pedal, touch and heart, he sings his way into the poetic soul of the music. He can take a diminuendo passage and without spoiling the line, make it grow progressively softer while articulating each note straight to the back row of the hall. That a piece of percussive machinery like the piano can be made to produce such distinctions in tone...
...Center were only technical training, in the narrowest sense, this argument would have at best shaky validity. The process is as important as the plan in any of the arts, even if the concern is only with analysis. A practical knowledge of metre and rhyme is essential to adept poetic analysis, as is knowledge of brushstrokes to the criticism of painting or a knowledge of staging to dramatic criticism...
...What's wrong with our black tongue now?" Philadelphia N.A.A.C.P. Leader Cecil B. Moore argues that "my dialect never hurt me-and no one tries to change the Irish, Italians or French who have dialects." Author Langston Hughes backhandedly praises the "old shoe" approach as "bordering on the poetic...
Chris Marker, for example, has extended Godard's use of natural settings to its logical extreme, the poetic documentary. Marker's The Kimono Mystery and Jetee, both only sixty minutes along, use real people rather than actors and employ the cinema-verise technique of interviews rather than dialogue. Jacques Demy, on the other hand, painted his settings every conceivable color in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg to create a fairy-tale world. In contrast to Marker's candid sound-tracks, every word in Demy's film was sung to the tunes of Michel Legrand...