Word: soule
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...HEART AND SOUL of country music has always been its closeness to country people. Since its beginnings among the Scotch-Irish mountaineers and dirt farmers of the rural South almost two centuries ago, country music has borne a uniquely lower-class American stamp. Like jazz, it sprang from the bowels of a transplanted and dispossessed group of people, left largely to their own devices outside the boundaries of the American cultural mainstream, who found self-expression and renewal in their adaptations of their parents' music. And whether outsiders found country music appealing or obnoxious, ingenuous or banal, they never doubted...
...touch with, and fearful of, nature and its spirits. His version allows for the modern mystery of technology. Death is represented as a gaunt, curt woman swathed in ascetic white and attended by two lackeys in surgeon's coats; they pull on rubber gloves before extracting Eurydice's soul. This woman exists in something like a different space and time warp from that of living beings, and she shifts out of her realm's "wavelength of seven and range of seven to twelve" electronically...
Everytime I hear the crack of the whip My blood run cold I do remember on a slave ship How they brutalized my very soul...
...They range from Song of the Big Shot ("Just don't get soft, baby/ For god's sake never get soft, baby/ No ifs or buts/ Go on and kick him in the guts/ Go on and kick him in the guts. ") to Throw Out the Lifeline-Soul Overboard. By turns, the music is astringent, lyrical, opulently erotic and as jazzily smoky as a 1920s saxophone...
...This monster city is dark, windy, cold," murmurs Yamashita breathlessly. "Art, color are the vitamins of the soul. I am 42 already. So much to do. Imagine! Striped buildings. Red streets. Sunrise painted on the Sears Tower, sunset on Hancock. A continuous wave of sea paintings along front of all buildings on Michigan Avenue. Rainbows on underside of el tracks. Then we invite all people of city to disappear the next weekend and I do the sidewalks...