Word: troubadours
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...Sung-yun is a professional storyteller, one of those who, troubadour-like, spin wondrous yarns for China's listeners. At Nanking's tea houses, sipping tea and cracking melon seeds, Kan unfolded a repertory that ranged from ancient sagas of Homeric scope to the modern story of a nude, female ghost that would have done credit to Thome ("Topper") Smith. But spectacled "Dim-Eyed Kan" was too bright for his own good...
...music predominated, but he final song was "Strange Fruit" and Josh was no longer a "troubadour" as the program announced. "This song needs no introduction," he said. As he sang, he became a witness for the Negro people, a person with something to say, not an entertainer with a guitar. He told of the mournful South where men are still hanging from the trees, the "strange fruit" that is everyone's poison. Cheers and clapping followed the guitar off the stage but the praise was all of Josh White...
According to legend, one troubadour's session ended in a musical salute to a Harvard president's daughter, while the unresponsive female was giving birth to a baby...
Jimmie Davis, troubadour Governor of Louisiana, was all set for his departure from office, come May. From the gubernatorial mansion he was making a sleeper-jump to a new career: his own nightclub in Hollywood, featuring his own hillbilly band and the ex-statesman himself in front...
...twelfth year. At this point he found his boyhood hero in the story of a medieval minnesinger. "I never quite got over the feeling that all women . . . longed to be the heroines of one of those romantic episodes which were common incidents in the lives of the medieval troubadours. It was only a great many years later and at cost of a terrific wear and tear upon my emotions and upon my bank account that I learned that the troubadour business had indeed gone out with Guiraut Riquier (who died in the year...