Rob Ayling, yer Gonzo Grande Fromage, writes:
"Thom the World poet is an old mate of mine from way back in my history. Even pre-dating Voiceprint, when I was running "Otter Songs" and Thom's poetry tapes and guest appearances with Daevid Allen, Gilli Smyth and Mother Gong are well known and highly regarded. It just felt right to include a daily poem from Thom on our Gonzo blog and when I approached him to do so, he replied within seconds!!! Thom is a great talent and just wants to spread poetry, light and positive energy across the globe. If we at Gonzo can help him do that - why not?"
GUSTARI
Domenico de Luca recited Dante in Italian
while dancing naked in the Temple of Apollo @Delphi
His memory was prodigious.His performance
of classical poetry unique in our time.Of course,
we still have folk bards,storytellers,actors who can recite epic ballads
yet the talents of Gustari Domenico are still rare and precious.
His cadences both magical and musical/the effect mesmerizing.
Closest we have is Trance Dance,and this is flow music,not words.Or Spanish-speaking declamadores..
Pre-TV,memory was a human power that allowed both memorization&improvisation.
Like a raga,there is a structure,and once learned,then embellishments can be added.
Life is our (individual &collective)epic saga story.We split it into chapters-call them folk songs.
Recite from memory and sing one's life .You have all heard such moments.
You can cast your mind back.Remember?Now release those winged birds
and let your life lines sing their own way home...again..
Who was Homer? Or, to put it another way, who wrote Homer? The
identity of the Greek poet was a big question among nineteenth-century
scholars. The Analysts (yes, they had a name) thought that multiple
authors made up “Homer.” The Unitarians (not the religion), meanwhile,
thought Homer was a single, masterful poet. The notion that long and
involved poems like the Iliad and the Odyssey might
have been recited by pre-literate peoples before being committed to
writing was too fantastical a notion to be believed. How could anybody
remember so many lines of poetry?
Enter Milman Parry, who burst on the scene in the late 1920s and became a professor at Harvard University in 1929. Parry used textual analysis, anthropology, and field work to show that pre-literate or semi-literate peoples could, in fact, recite long poems. Inspired by the Slavicist Matija Murko, who attended his thesis defense at the Sorbonne, Parry headed to the hills of what is now called Bosnia in the early 1930s. There he used aluminum disks to record pre-literate bards, guslari, who performed epske pjesme, epic oral songs. These bards used “the very same kinds of structures and patterns that Parry had found in the texts of Homer,” according to the late oral-communications scholar John Miles Foley.
Enter Milman Parry, who burst on the scene in the late 1920s and became a professor at Harvard University in 1929. Parry used textual analysis, anthropology, and field work to show that pre-literate or semi-literate peoples could, in fact, recite long poems. Inspired by the Slavicist Matija Murko, who attended his thesis defense at the Sorbonne, Parry headed to the hills of what is now called Bosnia in the early 1930s. There he used aluminum disks to record pre-literate bards, guslari, who performed epske pjesme, epic oral songs. These bards used “the very same kinds of structures and patterns that Parry had found in the texts of Homer,” according to the late oral-communications scholar John Miles Foley.
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