tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post8505496385148782931..comments2024-03-27T02:55:10.109-07:00Comments on Irish Papist: The Idea of CultureMaolsheachlannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09406722311993627528noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-1419001170980296872017-05-29T09:10:03.369-07:002017-05-29T09:10:03.369-07:00On the whole I think it would be a good thing. The...On the whole I think it would be a good thing. The gain would outweigh the loss!Maolsheachlannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09406722311993627528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-55642647008269076642017-05-29T06:13:02.592-07:002017-05-29T06:13:02.592-07:00I'm fond of that one also.
But I'm not abo...I'm fond of that one also.<br />But I'm not about to start collecting retro cds, by any means. <br />A few years ago when they beatified the young lady Chiara Badano,I remember reading (on some quite official material) that she was a normal girl, so-called, that she listened to pop etc. It took several years to seep into my head, but I thought : She was born only two years before me-another country, another language, of course- but in the same era as me... it makes one curious- just who did she listen to?-the same new wave stuff we were ' exposed to' in the English speaking world? Or Continental acts we weren't familiar with? Or more Christian music? Spandau Ballet? U2? Amy Grant? <br />Just what are the standards of censorship that are expected of a BLESSED Chiara ?<br />A lot of home school families,I know, have a blanket ban on any radio hit music; what do they make of that?<br />Séamusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-26248083679755798972017-05-29T03:11:01.335-07:002017-05-29T03:11:01.335-07:00"
the music is weaving /
haunting notes /
piz... "<br />the music is weaving /<br />haunting notes /<br />pizzicata strings/<br />the rhythm is calling /<br />alone in the night/<br />as the daylight brings a cold empty silence/<br />the warmth of your hand/<br />and a cold grey sky/<br />it fades to the distance"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-45102365718201239032017-05-29T00:41:17.229-07:002017-05-29T00:41:17.229-07:00Well any poets today would be obscure. It's ha...Well any poets today would be obscure. It's hardly a money maker.<br />But already we've seen Dylan hailed as a poet, even though he hasn't left the pop status. Who knows, in five generations, who else may become part of Western culture?<br />Whenever I hear something played that came out during my teenage years(my 'career' of pop music and cinema was fairly short lived), usually in a supermarket ( or Target), it can suddenly strike you "I scarcely noticed that that song existed....it was actually a great piece of music" I've probably never said that when catching some music that I'd actually loved at the time. What would the retrospective be after 100 years? I agree totally with what you say in the post about modern sub-culture, this isn't a contradiction. But there is always another aspect.<br />It's actually a saint that made me think about 80s bands recently.Séamusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-71862864091077203882017-05-28T06:58:04.335-07:002017-05-28T06:58:04.335-07:00I don't know anything but classical music, but...I don't know anything but classical music, but I do know about poetry. And I know there are no equivalents of Tennyson or Housman or Yeats writing today-- or if they are, they are obscure. The difference is, in my view, real and not simply a matter of temporal perspective.<br /><br />As for the providential meeting of cultures at the birth of Christianity, of course I agree with this. The thing is, the Catholic Church is the UNIVERSAL Church. I get that you're joking about Target, but the reason I felt compelled to write that Europe and Me post is because I get a bit irked at the idea (which I think is fairly popular amongst Catholics) that for some reason I should be a Europhile just because I'm a Catholic. Well, I ain't. Another thing I liked in the book about Newman is how resolutely he was both ENGLISH and Catholic, even at a time when a lot of English people insisted Catholicism was un-English.Maolsheachlannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09406722311993627528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-74351005737320008772017-05-28T05:29:57.399-07:002017-05-28T05:29:57.399-07:00I was going to comment yesterday on your mention o...I was going to comment yesterday on your mention of the biblical Achaia.... There was surely SOMETHING important about The Greco-Roman world and about Europe from the very start of the Church's mission? The appearance of the Angel to Paul asking him to go to Macedonia, the mission journeys, the fact that Incarnation happened, through God 's own choice, when Palestine was under Rome, but at the same time, just as adherents to the faith of Israel(many of them very learned) existed, leaven-like throughout the known world East and West... Strange, wasn't it that it was ultimately the Hellenists that got Stephen stoned.? (Almost what happens when Western raised Muslims resort to the violence which sometimes their forebears left the Middle East because of their disapproval of.) <br />But seeing that you find Mediterranean Europe second fiddle to WalMart and Target,I said nothing <br />* hope you take that lightly*<br />In a sense, perhaps , until recently, the greatest difference between high and pop culture was simply time? Just how many classical composers or artists were NOT the pop of their time? But a line surely has to be drawn in today's world. The chasm has never been greater. Hypothetically, assuming North Korea, for example, hasn't blown us all up, what in today's world will endure? Reminds me of that bizarre bit in AT-SWIM-TWO-BIRDS when the someone started rattling of a poem about "a pint of plain"Séamusnoreply@blogger.com