Chekhov's Mistress
Words Without Borders, Lorca, New Issue
I was just going to mention Ralph Angel’s great piece on Lorca in Words Without Borders, but now I see there’s a whole new issue up, on Palestine.
What I loved about the Lorca piece is how Angel spoke to the role of music in writing:
I found that in order to come to terms with these spare, peculiar poems, I had to come to terms with cante jondo…Only by studying cante jondo, and translating lyrics of songs that moved me, and listening to cante jondo while I worked, did I begin to hear the strange, subtle rhythms and silences and accents of the poems.
But I found myself listening to other music, as well. To other forms of flamenco, for example, to medieval Arabic and Jewish music, and to American jazz. I found myself going to the music of duende, in other words, of which cante jondo is a supreme example, including the American duende of Billie Holiday and Cassandra Wilson, of Miles Davis and John Coltrane and Bill Evans, of John Lee Hooker and Rambling Jack Elliot.
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- Posted by: Bud Parr
- Date: November 07, 2006
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