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Spesso le opere d’arte e la morte sono strettamente intrecciate le une all’altra. La realtà crudele espressa in immagini può essere sgradevole; eppure se l’energia che traspare dovesse essere riconosciuta cupa e ingiusta potrebbe non essere solo a causa di ciò che rappresenta. Dobbiamo piuttosto vederla come il tentativo di affrontare ciò che di oscuro c’è nelle nostre vite e nel mondo in cui viviamo, come un processo per mutare in comprensione le nostre incomprensioni. (Guardate il blog sul PC)

domenica 26 maggio 2013

The Beatles

Burning Beatles records in Waycross, Georgia, 1966

“They’ve got to buy them before they can burn them.” (George Harrison)

Professor Brian Ward of the University of Manchester (!!!) says the tour stirred up fears and feelings about race relations and had links to the development of the Civil Rights movement:

"There are some surprising links between the Beatles and the story of southern race relations and the civil rights movement…

Deejays Tommy Charles and Doug Layton of WAQY in Birmingham – the scene of major civil rights disturbances in the 1960s – were first to pick up on Lennon’s comments and initiate a Ban-the-Beatles Campaign. There was also conspicuous involvement of the Ku Klux Klan in the campaign against the Fab Four. In South Carolina, for example, the Klan Grand Dragon Bob Scoggins nailed a Beatles record to a large cross and set it on fire.

Other Klansmen justified their campaign on the grounds that not only were the Beatles blasphemous, but that they were not really white’ either".

The Beatles - All My Loving da: Meet The Beatles