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Writer after writer casts Dylan as an American minstrel who stands in the great tradition of the writers who bring

... Writer after writer casts Dylan as an American minstrel who stands in the great tradition of the writers who bring America and its realities to life through naming and describing. Daniel Karlin, in a chapter on ‘Bob Dylan’s Names’, gleefully runs through ...

Published: Sunday 01 December 2002
Newspaper: Scotland on Sunday
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 168 | Page: 69 | Tags: none

Designs

... Grampian Headlines. Border Black Hollywood Cathy Tyson presents a new series examining the development of black American cinema from minstrel stereotypes to mainstream success. Sidney Poitier and Spike Lee are among those interviewed. Radio 2,9 pm ...

Published: Saturday 01 September 2001
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 109 | Page: 100 | Tags: none

| SATURDAY 2 Beck/Beth Ortor. The winsome English minstrel supports American pop music’s most justifiably ..

... | SATURDAY 2 Beck/Beth Ortor. The winsome English minstrel supports American pop music’s most justifiably admired, award-winning artist of the momenyt, right, a man in a league of his own when it comes to converting multiple influences into innovation ...

Published: Monday 20 March 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 150 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

At school a major girl impresser was to partake of American Cream Soda (one part perfume and two parts cleaning ..

... At school a major girl impresser was to partake of American Cream Soda (one part perfume and two parts cleaning fluid) good deal off smackheads.” That gets us 0nt0 chocolate. | express an early fondness for United biscuits. “No,” quotes schoolmasterly ...

Published: Sunday 25 February 2001
Newspaper: Scotland on Sunday
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 388 | Page: 141 | Tags: none

Spike Lee has been

... featuring stereotypical, racist images * of African-Americans. C One ad features a cartoon illustration of a winking ] black man with huge lips and a toothy smile advertising : the fictional “Man Tan E Minstrel Show - the subject of Lee's film. ...

Published: Monday 28 August 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 61 | Page: 48 | Tags: none

that’s not hard when buddy routine), Bad Company really is.that cynical. When an assassin mmth. a CIA operativ ..

... Company really is.that cynical. When an assassin mmth. a CIA operativ that he “looked Afghani” - 2 cheap shot that exploits American fear and resentiment for a fast buck. But even leaving that aside, Bad Company is bad filmmaking. After his excellent 'Nam ...

Published: Thursday 11 July 2002
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 142 | Page: 37 | Tags: none

DIARY

... is fondly kent, who knows? But it has worked for the Claymores, the Scottish American football team - if that makes any sense - who adopted Jimmy as their official minstrel and have never looked back. Well, they were beaten in the World Bowl final in ...

Published: Tuesday 27 June 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 216 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

micro-tonal playing. But while MacKillop is fascinated by the historical aspect, he is just as interested in ..

... East, through pilgrims and the crusades, MacKillop believes the lute established itself here via France and the trouvere minstrels who came to the Scottish court. However, the instrument’s earliest origins are in Persia, whence it spread, not only to the ...

Published: Monday 26 February 2001
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 258 | Page: 50 | Tags: none

Anniversaries

... Society of Friends; 1800 James Mac Knight, biblical critic; 1864 Stephen Foster, US composer of minstrel songs such as Old Folks at Home: 1929 Wyatt Earp, American marshal who fought the Clanton gang at the OK Corral; 1930 Sebastian de Ferranti, electrical ...

Published: Saturday 12 January 2002
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 495 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

Time for a sharp harp entrance JIM GILCHRIST

... be nursing will be soundly pu]nct;urodum n\gxgen they fln?fly themselves toa contemplative mtment:?fi'orglu On My Mind from American jazz stylist Park Stickney, who has been known to pluck a string or two in the White House, or the ancient Celtic strains ...

Published: Tuesday 11 April 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 346 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

G asgow Kisses

... Merchants’ Hall presented “The Great American Slave- Troupe and Brass Band - Composed of Untaught African Slaves from the Plantations of America”. Only two years later, West Nile Street hosted the Christy minstrels and recommended the show as “No vulgar ...

Published: Saturday 27 October 2001
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 387 | Page: 41 | Tags: none

Essential Scottish Opera Yarious venues SCOTTISH Opera’s delightful small-scale presentation continues its ..

... Jane's Minstrels Manning is joined by instrumental friendsina concert of music by Edward McGuire, Judith Weir, Shostakovich and Beethoven. @ Tel:0141-3349757 RSNO: Torke Concerto Various venues EDINBURGH-born percussion: first performance of American composer ...

Published: Monday 19 February 2001
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 316 | Page: 48 | Tags: none