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When the four met, they decided to go out to Harvard Square and sing until they earned enough money for admission to a movie, said Miller...
...drew a large crowd so we couldn't pass up the opportunity to sing," said Korn. That very night they received their first job. A couple listening to the street concert asked the group to sing at their wedding, said Culhane...
...folksinger Victor Jara. Author of lyrics like "Liberate our people from the dominion of the exploiter," he was one of the thousands forced by the Chilean army into the Santiago soccer stadium during the 1973 overthrow of Socialist Salvador Allende. In the stadium with his guitar, Jara began to sing some of his most popular songs; the waiting crowd joined in. The soldiers grabbed him, pulled away his guitar, and chopped off his hands--challenging him to "Try playing now" before killing him. The crowd watched, then followed him to their own deaths...
...most people the pleasure lies in the atmospherics, the dressing up and stepping out. After a few years of deafening disco, couples appreciate chandeliers that do not revolve, single-sex bathrooms, peachy lighting, a buttery floor, music they can talk over or sing to. Some people take care to dress the part, the men in black tie, the women in suede-bottom shoes and vintage gowns, or handmade black taffeta Gay Nineties skirts set off with antique purses and peacock feathers in their hair...
...novelist John Gardner once wrote a version of Beowulf that was told from Grendel's point of view. There is a scene in which a wandering bard arrives among the drunken cretins and begins to sing beautiful songs to them about what they have accomplished that day in battle. Atrocity becomes glory, bloodletting becomes heroic. It is a shrewd point about mythmaking, and perhaps about the making of the myth of Camelot...