Word: troubadours
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...early 20th century, the religion of romance appeared in a new form, and its troubadour was D. H. Lawrence. Until then, it had been tinged by the polite and melancholy suggestion that desire, not fulfillment, was the best part of love. Lawrence countered vehemently that fulfillment is everything, that sex is the one great, true thing in life. More explicitly than anyone before him, he sentimentalized the orgasm, in whose "final massive and dark collision of the blood" he saw man's apotheosis and fusion with the divine...
...with three immense schools of popular songwriters. There is the rock-twist crowd, which follows the spiritual guidance of Elvis Presley. Chubby Checker and a Gallic hero named Johnny Hallyday. and spawns an army of combos with names like Les Chats Sauvages. There are "The Defenders of French Music." troubadour-poets like Georges Brassens and Leo Ferre who sing their verses to naughty café melodies. And there is Charles Aznavour...
Bland Mix. Sparks planned the Christys merely as a recording group, but Columbia Records demanded they stay together fulltime and build an "in-person vitality" and an audience. Starting off with a week's engagement at Hollywood's Troubadour Cafe last July, they did so well that they stayed for three months, with crowds jamming the entrance and queuing up around the block...
...returned to his throne, leaving a hungry Bohn behind. Arriving in Algeria at the wrong time (November 1961), he strum-a-strum-strummed through the streets of Oran. Who else would do that but a spy? The S.A.O. grabbed him. He laughed at them, saying he was just a troubadour-vigorously playing and singing for his life. They gave him money and let him go. Then the French army arrested him as an S.A.O. man, suspecting that his 20 spare guitar strings were really intended as parts for plastic bombs...
...family owned near the Rhone River. Starting with three families, the Ark's community now has 63 followers. Within France, the movement has gained widespread, respectful attention; one of Lanza's books on his experiences with Gandhi has sold 300,000 copies. A record of medieval troubadour ballads sung by several of the companions won France's Grand Prix du Disque...