Mark Jones wrote:
>>And in late July, I heard an Australian aborigine singing this song
>>at an aboriginal arts center in Adelaide. Speaking of the reach of
>>American pop culture
>
>
>Did the aborigine know you were there?
Well, I was standing pretty close, though I don't think I looked m
>Doug Henwood wrote:
>And in late July, I heard an Australian aborigine singing this song at an
>aboriginal arts center in Adelaide. Speaking of the reach of American pop
>culture
Did the aborigine know you were there?
Mark
Regarding Yoshie's interesting note on international film, I once asked Bill
Mitchell, in my ignorance, what happened to all the great recent Australian
film, why so many of their successful actors had come to Hollywood. He said
that the labor government lost the election and the subsidies stoppe
Rob says:
>But by then,
>the US had cornered the Anglophone cinema market, the distribution and
>exhibition network, the marketing power...
That's the main problem, as far as movies are concerned, even beyond
the Anglophone market. I posted on this topic a while ago on
LBO-talk:
$ Jame
Michael Pugliese wrote:
>http://www.sfbg.com/AandE/35/27/ae_opener.html
>Branded man
>Merle Haggard is just another free-thinking, tough-as-nails, ex-con Okie
>genius hot-wired into the soul of the Central Valley. He's come out of the
>cold with a new album and a whole lot of energy.
>
>Culture c
x27;s still
the stranger "out in the cold" whom he wrote about in 1967's "Branded Man,"
haunted by a past the world won't forgive. The song rocketed up the charts
to number one which tells you something about Haggard, America, and
Americans. It's hard to imagine that
At 10:35 PM 09/04/2001 +, you wrote:
>my American geography (from Muscogee
>through St Louis, Memphis, New York, New York, and down the Mississippi down
>to New Orleans).
you'll be glad to know that Merle Haggard's song "I'm glad to be an Okie
from Muskogee" was written while stoned on dope.
Tom Walker wrote:
>
> I thought it was because U.S. popularculture has an affinity for the
> image of the misfit or rebel. Maybe that same affinity helps explain > the
>traditional inefficacy of oppositional politics in the U.S.
As soon as teenagers were sufficiently numerous and monied to beco
I thought it was because U.S. popularculture has an affinity for the image
of the misfit or rebel. Maybe that same affinity helps explain the
traditional inefficacy of oppositional politics in the U.S.
Tom Walker
Bowen Island, BC
604 947 2213
