#collected poems 1940-1960

[toneelspeelster]

Denise Levertov, from “The Third Dimension”, Collected Earlier Poems, 1940-1960.

#ofmdedit #our flag means death #ofmd #ofmd s2 #gentlebeard #ed x stede #edward teach #stede bonnet #mine #the WARMTH in the colours!!!

[pwlanier]

Shapiro Yakov Abramovich (1897-1972) "Self-Portrait." Dated to 1940s - 1950s Oil on canvas Size: 60.7 x 49.5 cm. In the lower left corner is the author's signature. Silaev's expertise.

SHAPIRO Yakov Abramovich (Alexandrovich) 18(6).06.1897 (Dvinsk, now Daugavpils, Latvia) - 1972 (Paris). Painter. Son of a woodcarver. He studied at art schools in Kharkiv (1915) and Kiev (1918). In 1919 he headed the drawing school in Ekaterinoslav (now Dnepropetrovsk). In 1921 he came to Petrograd, continued his studies at the State School of Artists and headed a children's art school. In the 1920s, he was engaged in scenography in Petrograd and Moscow theaters, designed productions by K. Village Stanislavsky, V. E. Meyerhold and E. B. Vakhtangov.

Participated in exhibitions: Art Bureau N. E. Dobychina (Pg., 1922), Paintings by Petrograd artists of all directions (Pg., 1923), group "United Art" (M., 1925). In 1925 he settled in Paris. He painted portraits, genre paintings and interiors. Since 1926 he has exhibited in salons: Autumn, Tuileries, Independent, Populiste, since 1935 - Super Independent. He held solo exhibitions in the galleries Kleinman (1930), Bonaparte (1936), the International Dance Archive (1937), de l'Elysee (1946); participated in exhibitions of Russian art in the galleries d'Alignan (1931) and Zak (1936; organized by the magazine "Our Union"), an exhibition organized by the Committee "France-USSR" of the The Museum of Gée de Pom purchased the painting "Vasilki" (1936). Performed lithographs for the book by D. Knut "From Abusive Poems" (Paris, 1949). In 1960, he published a book of memoirs about the life of the famous 1920s colony of artists "La Ruche". Contributed to the preservation of "La Ruche" when the building was going to be demolished.

Presented at the National Museum of Modern Art in Paris and at the Art Institute of Chicago. The investigated "Self-Portrait" belongs to the brush of one of the most interesting Russian artists of the Paris school, the inhabitant of the famous "Hive" Jacques Chapiro, whose work is only open to Russian lovers of fine arts. The investigated "Self-Portrait" is a wonderful work of the artist, powerfully and stylishly written in an expressive and complex manner. It should be noted the psychology, complex color and decorative structure of this work by Jacques Chapiro. Jacques Chapiro's work "Self-Portrait" is a valuable and rare work of the artist, which is of artistic and collectible value and can have museum significance. Silaev's expertise.

Kardashidi and Art-Souz

#weird russian and ukrainian art

[likehephaestionwhodied]

Some Kinda Love

Between thought and expression Lies a lifetime Situations arise Because of the weather And no kinds of love Are better than others

Johnathan [Jack] Marleau 1940-2016

Artist born in LA joined the anti-war movement. Leaves LA when his lover is killed in Vietnam, joins the NYC leather community. Does covertly homoerotic paintings that sell for way too much. Has won Mr. Eagle New York multipule times most recently in 1986 where he was sent to Chicago to compete in International Mr. Leather. He did not win.  Wears his keys on his left hip, flogger and red hanky in his back left pocket. [Later in life he wears handcuffs on the middle most beltloop in the back]

Mikey Squires 1960-199

Left small town Ohio when he was 16. Found a job in a record shop, he can’t think of something better to do. Don't let the shirt fool you, he cried hearing about the lawsuits following the Smith’s breakup. Joined the leather community almost by accident but was sold when he met Jack at The Eagle in 1984. The Eagle sent him as their representative to Chicago to compete in International Mr. Bootblack, which he won, in 1991  a year after his HIV diagnosis. He wears his keys on his right hip, a yellow hanky and a black hanky in his back right pocket. 

Marcus Joseph 1994-2015

A photographer, born and raised in San Francisco, he hitch hiked across the country in 1969 to Woodstock, when he got back to San Francisco Queer Liberation was in full swing and he turned to photographing the community from Polk to Folsom. A freewheeling lover no one thought he would ever settle down. He was first runner up for International Mr. Leather in 1986. He wears his keys on his left hip, a black hanky and grey hanky in his back left pocket. 

Callum [Cal] Nelson 1955-2016

Born in England, Callum, moved to San Francisco to study English at the University of California San Francisco. As a PhD student he publishes a collection of poems about queer masculinity. He soon gets a job at UC Berkeley and teaches classes for their queer studies program. He is introduced to the leather scene by a member of his cohort, and immediately meets and falls in love with Marcus.  he is diagnosed HIV+ in 1987. He competes for, and wins International Mr. Leather in 1991, He and Marcus get married in 2013, Jack officiates the ceremony. He wears his keys on the right, a red hanky in his back left pocket and a light blue hanky in his right

Riley Williams 1945-1969

Born in LA Riley met Jack at an anti-war action. He doesn't know how he could have gotten so lucky when Jack kisses him the first time. unfortunately that’s where his luck runs out. When Jack brings the mail to the living room his face is sheet white as he hands Riley the letter on the top. Riley can’t open it he sees it’s from the selective service. He does not last a year in Vietnam. 

#some kinda love #The way the two couples meet is there I just didn't wanna yknow write the whole thing #title of this world from the Velvet undgerground song of the same name #If that hadn't been it's title for like 8 months at this point id use a lyric from everybody wants to rule the world

[howwelldoyouknowyourmoon]

Marriage under Mao Zedong and marriage under Sun Myung Moon

▲ Ding Ling in the 1930s. She was a famous Chinese author. After the Anti-Rightist Campaign in 1958, Ding was denounced and purged and was sent to exile in Manchuria, to be rehabilitated only in 1979. She died in Beijing in 1986. In 1936, Mao Zedong wrote and dedicated the poem "The Immortal from Linjiang" to her.

See below for Sun Myung Moon’s oath of loyalty, MY PLEDGE, and compare that with the loyalty expected in Mao’s Chinese Communist Party in the 1940s. In the Unification Church there were strict criteria to receive the “Holy Blessing of Marriage” from 1960 to around 1990 when the qualifications required gradually eased. Before that, minimum ages were set, and being active in a full time mission for three years was a requirement, etc. Strict criteria remain for the Japanese to attend. Financial contributions required.

Sun Myung Moon: “I understand communism well.” http://www.tparents.org/Moon-Books/SunMyungMoon-Life/SunMyungMoon-Life-05.htm

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from Sinobabble by Edi Obiakpani-Reid, PhD.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9Y9DJLmn8s

Episode 16: The Communists at Yan'an (pt2): Life after Rectification

This episode will continue the theme of the Communists at Yan'an, switching focus to the lives of Party members and ordinary people under Chinese Communist Party rule.

Split over two parts, we will talk about the development and spread of Communist ideology and Mao Zedong thought, the institution of political campaigns aimed at increasing social cohesion and improving the lives of peasants, and the reaction of the Party to dissent. This week we discuss the fallout from the Rectification movement, and the effect it had on the social lives of political party members as well as ordinary people living in the Communist base area. We will also discuss the evolving role of art and propaganda, alongside the growing sentiment among party members that the collective should be paramount over the individual.

13:45 Finally, speaking about gender equality and sexual freedom, we can’t end this episode without discussing the fallout from the criticism about the treatment of younger cadres that we discussed last week.

China in the early 1940s

Last week we spoke about Ding Ling (丁玲) and Wang Shiwei’s (王实味) writings [Wild Lilies, 1942, Arrow and Target, etc.] on how young cadres felt weary [due to] maltreatment and the lack of opportunity to form meaningful connections – sexism and mistreatment of women and the inability of some cadres to find girlfriends, basically. Unfortunately the attitude towards relationships, particularly love relationships, developed in the opposite way from which many of these idealistic writers had hoped – and instead reflected the new norm of prioritizing the collective revolutionary movement above the self. The CCP imposed harsh restrictions on love and marriage. Basically outright banning the formation of romantic relationships for younger and lower level cadres and putting age restrictions on marriage. Now, marriage was very important in Chinese society. It was not common at all for people to freely fall in love, and have sex out of wedlock, and in the minds of many, traditional values still held sway over their private actions.

Getting married was seen as a major milestone and it meant that people could express their feelings, as well as relieve their desires in a socially appropriate manner. The restrictions were very hard on many young people who expressed their discontent privately in their journals, which showed their anxieties about possibly never finding a life partner. It affected men more than women, however, as many female cadres were more determined to delay marriage as traditional notions still prevailed, and they worried about losing their job and position if they ever had children. Unfortunately, some of them were married off to the older revolutionary cadres in the camps against their will, demonstrating that the CCP’s talk of gender equality was just that, talk. Female members of the party were treated as commodities or resources to be allocated. They were oggled by men who felt they couldn’t have them, and basically dished out to the higher-ups, which was exactly the thing that Wang Shiwei was complaining about in his essay. Funnily enough this actually still took the young men and women in the camp by surprise, because they felt that the revolutionary movement would allow them to marry freely to a partner of their choice, once they fell in love. But never fear, the party helped them to overcome these feelings by educating them to think of their feelings as reactionary bourgeois individualism which was hindering the success of the revolution, especially in light of the Japanese war effort. [The Japanese occupied a significant part of China until 1945. ref Kishi Nobusuke] How could people justify being so selfish when the nation itself was in jeopardy. Now this ideological education didn’t always sit right with the young cadres who still debated on the grounds of compassion and empathy. However, in many cases, this training was successful. There were some instances where love matches never progressed because one member of the pairing was worried about the class status of the other. For example, one woman named Shensha wrote in her diary that, “when I sometimes recall that I loved someone wholeheartedly, and whatever his purpose was he still loved me, I feel sad. I feel sad about the happiness that I saw after so hard and enjoyed for some time.” However, when it came down to her lover, Sha yi, actually proposing to her, she did not hesitate to place his political background above all else. “I cannot marry you, because I do not know you and your past. Being engaged means my life connects to that of a man forever and this is something I must think about carefully. As a party member I should pay attention to my own career and development.”

Other people who did get married were able to frame their match in light of the revolutionary struggle. As one couple wrote on their marriage application, “We fell in love with each other and want to get married. We promise that our work will not be affected by this, and we look forward to the party committee’s approval.”

The party committee replied, “We care about our veteran cadres and approve your application. We hope that you will attach greater importance to the party and make the party interest your top priority.” Some young cadres and party members did their best to deny their emotions altogether in order to prove, mainly to themselves, their loyalty to the party. For example, Jung Zejen, an Eighth Route Army cadre, wrote in his diary about his courtship of a young woman, her rejection of him and the conclusions he ultimately drew from this. “It was the first time in my life that I wrote a letter to a woman to reveal my love for her. It made me happy, but then frustrated. For two nights I could not even sleep.” When he received her rejection, he was tempted to keep pursuing her, but later changed his mind, “If this continues the work of the party and my studies will be affected, and that would be a big mistake. From now on, I will put this problem aside and work hard and study hard. Marriage issues can be easily resolved.” It was undeniable the psychological effects that these policies had on the young party members, in particular the young men who often [felt] a complete hopelessness when it came to the future prospects for happiness, and as we have seen tried to adopt some sort of asexuality. However, even though this experience was disheartening, and even painful for many of the young party members, in the end many people put the organizational goals of the party above their own desires, showing that the major aim of the [CCP] rectification movement to create ideological conformity among the ranks of cadres was ultimately successful.

So that’s it for this episode, and for what ended up being a miniseries on Yan’an.

Sinobabble.com

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Loyalty to Sun Myung Moon and the Unification Church

My Pledge (1979)

1.  As the center of the cosmos, I will fulfill our Father’s will (purpose of creation) and the responsibility given me (for self-perfection). I will become a dutiful son (or daughter), and a child of goodness to attend our Father forever in the ideal world of creation (by) returning joy and glory to Him. This I pledge.

2.  I will take upon myself completely the Will of God to give me the whole creation as my inheritance. He has given me His Word, His personality, and His heart, and is reviving me who had died, making me one with Him and His true child. To do this, our Father has persevered for 6,000 years the sacrificial way of the cross. This I pledge.

3.  As a true son (or daughter), I will follow our Father’s pattern and charge bravely forward into the enemy camp until I have judged them completely with the weapons with which He has been defeating the enemy Satan for me throughout the course of history by sowing sweat for earth, tears for man, and blood for heaven, as a servant but with a father’s heart in order to restore His children and the universe, lost to Satan. This I pledge.

4.  The individual, family, society, nation, world, and cosmos who are willing to attend our Father, the source of peace, happiness, freedom, and all ideals, will fulfill the ideal world of one heart in one body by restoring their original nature. To do this, I will become a true son (or daughter), returning joy and satisfaction to our Father, and as our Father’s representative, I will transfer to the creation peace, happiness, freedom and all ideals in the world of the heart. This I pledge.

5.  I am proud of the one Sovereignty, proud of the one people, proud of the one land, proud of the one language and culture centered upon God, proud of becoming the child of the One True Parent, proud of the family who is to inherit one tradition, proud of being a laborer who is working to establish the one world of the heart.

I will fight with my life.

I will be responsible for accomplishing my duty and mission.

This I pledge and swear.

This I pledge and swear.

This I pledge and swear.

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“Moon Sun-myung saw how Marxism gave his friends a utopian goal, a purpose, a historical role to play…”

“The organization of the Unification Church is so systematic that one thinks of communists.” – Professor Choi

The Moonie Washington P.R. Center, Richard Nixon and Capitol Hill

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Sun Myung Moon
: “So Master knows about Communists very well. And even under Japanese days, in Japan together with the Communists he fought against the Japanese government.” History Of The Unification Church, part 2
 Master Speaks  December 28, 1971, Washington, D.C.


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Dear Leader's Paper Moon – Sun Myung Moon and North Korea

Unification Church Fund North Korean Missile Development for 450 billion yen

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Nobusuke Kishi was known as a monster, responsible for the deaths of thousands, and as a friend of Sun Myung Moon

Disciplining the Mind – North Korean style

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Shiwei

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ding_Ling

In 1943, the rectification movement intensified and many more Communist Party members were purged. Ding Ling came under great pressure and was subject to disciplinary review. In 1945, the "Review Team's Preliminary Conclusions on Ding Ling's Historical Issues" stated: "There are materials to prove that there is no suspicion of Ding being dispatched by the Kuomintang. But whether the serious ideological problems during this period were affected by the softening of the Kuomintang after the arrest, Comrade Ding Ling deeply reflected on [herself]. After the rectification, there has been progress.” Thus she was spared.[13]

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#Unification Church #My Pledge #China #Sun Myung Moon #marriage #loyalty #communism

[indiejones]

BOLLYWOOD’S 1536 BIGGEST BLOCKBUSTERS / BOX-OFFICE SMASHERS OF ALL TIME! (INDIES INFLATION-ADJUSTED WORLDWIDE GROSS COLLECTIONS IE. TICKET COUNT AT WORLDWIDE BOX OFFICE)! (1912 - 2022)

These are based on Indies guesstimates of inflation-adjusted worldwide box-office collections of Bollywood Films thru history! Once again incorporating & requiring a modicum of ‘shruti-knowledge’ in assessment. Enjoy, & imbibe, svp!

Advantage of Indie inflation adjusted guesstimate if so accept, is- 1.Eliminate huge skew from 21st c,with 500+ times tkt price. 

2.V.IMP-Remove intermediary in process.. So bring all on level playing field- MULTIPLYING NO OF TKTS SOLD AT WORLD BO WITH ONE TKT PRICE ACROSS THE BOARD. Fair. . . Apt to acknowledge here, that Bollywood films of the 21st c., leave aside the (obvious) quality gap, would also suffer greatly at a systemic level, the new 'Mutiplex culture' being tailored for 1 week to 2-3 week runs at very best, naturally stunting even the potential for repetitive audience in large numbers, spread across several months, that contributed greatly to films of the 20th c., especially 60's & 70's, where witnessed b.o. at it's peak! This screening culture, as part of the vicious cycle of the new age, thus in turn also contributing to stunted artistic insight & outlook. And continue just the same, till major changes brought in at some level..

P.S. -

SOME STAR REPORTS CARDS & RANKING METERS, FOR FUN, BELOW!-

1. https://www.tumblr.com/indiejones/714836764871770112/bollywoods-70-most-popular-actors-actresses-of?source=share

2. https://www.tumblr.com/indiejones/709779127656448000/star-reports-at-the-indies-all-time-bollywood?source=share

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. AND HERE ARE THE 1536 MOST POPULAR BOLLYWOOD FILMS OF ALL TIME!

Position Title Year

1 Haathi Mere Saathi 1971

2 Do Raaste 1969

3 Disco Dancer 1982

4 Sachaa Jhutha 1970

5 Kati Patang 1970

6 Anand 1971

7 Aradhana 1969

8 Amar Prem 1972

9 Naseeb 1981

10 Jai Santoshi Maa 1975

11 Khamoshi 1969

12 Mehboob Ki Mehndi 1971

13 Daag: A Poem of Love 1973

14 Prem Kahani 1975

15 Shirdi Ke Sai Baba 1977

16 Bobby 1973

17 Ek Duuje Ke Liye 1981

18 Love Story 1981

19 Muqaddar Ka Sikandar 1978

20 Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge 1995

21 Parakh 1960

22 Hum Dono 1961

23 Shiraz 1928

24 Ziddi 1948

25 Pukar 1939

26 Agneepath 1990

27 Solwah Saal 1958

28 Anmol Ghadi 1946

29 Nau Do Gyarah 1957

30 Asli-Naqli 1962

31 Munimji 1955

32 Nadiya Ke Paar 1982

33 Dil Ek Mandir 1963

34 Bheegi Raat 1965

35 Maryada 1971

36 Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! 1994

37 Ram Teri Ganga Maili 1985

38 Khilona 1970

39 Karm 1977

40 Anurodh 1977

41 Prince 1969

42 Maya 1961

43 Balika Badhu 1976

44 Apna Desh 1972

45 The Train 1970

46 Bandhan 1969

47 Aan Milo Sajna 1970

48 Bawarchi 1972

49 Mehbooba 1976

50 Safar 1970

51 Kashmir Ki Kali 1964

52 Brahmachari 1968

53 Bhola Bhala 1978

54 Ajanabee 1974

55 Ramshastri 1944

56 Love in Simla 1960

57 Maine Pyar Kiya 1989

58 Aar-Paar 1954

59 Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai 1960

60 Chirag 1969

61 Ratan 1944

62 Teesri Manzil 1966

63 Kismet 1943

64 Doli 1969

65 Aap Ki Kasam 1974

66 Dushmun 1971

67 Ujala 1959

68 Phool Aur Patthar 1966

69 Shagird 1967

70 Dillagi 1949

71 Dil Deke Dekho 1959

72 Kaajal 1965

73 Maqsad 1984

74 Guide 1965

75 Jeewan Jyoti 1953

76 Khud-Daar 1982

77 Jagte Raho 1956

78 Joroo Ka Ghulam 1972

79 Panchayat 1958

80 Namak Haraam 1973

81 Asha Jyoti 1984

82 Andaz 1971

83 Khushboo 1975

84 Avam 1987

85 Angoor 1982

86 Barsaat 1949

87 Anarkali 1953

88 Nazrana 1987

89 Afsana 1951

90 Pagal 1940

91 Geet Gaata Chal 1975

92 Bhanvara 1944

93 Beti Bete 1964

94 Swarg 1990

95 Avtaar 1983

96 Ghunghat 1960

97 Dulhan 1958

98 Neel Kamal 1968

99 Chanda Aur Bijli 1969

100 Bahu Begum 1967

101 Godaan 1963

102 Gharana 1961

103 Jhuk Gaya Aasman 1968

104 Chaudhvin Ka Chand 1960

105 Sharaabi 1984

106 Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai 2000

107 Aavishkar 1974

108 Meri Bahen 1944

109 Babul 1950

110 Baiju Bawra 1952

111 Teen Devian 1965

112 Aya Sawan Jhoom Ke 1969

113 Veerana 1988

114 Aan 1952

115 Adil-E-Jahangir 1955

116 Har Har Mahadev 1950

117 President 1937

118 Sajan 1969

119 Dus Lakh 1966

120 Umrao Jaan 1981

121 Dil Daulat Duniya 1972

122 Gora Aur Kala 1972

123 Ganwaar 1970

124 Mard 1985

125 Yaadon Ki Baaraat 1973

126 Sunghursh 1968

127 Mahakaal 1994

128 Hamraaz 1967

129 Heera Moti 1959

130 Aarti 1962

131 Prem Nagar 1974

132 Mere Jeevan Saathi 1972

133 Humshakal 1974

134 Prem Bandhan 1979

135 Naukri 1978

136 Batwara 1961

137 Ram Bhakta Hanuman 1948

138 Kabuliwala 1961

139 Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak 1988

140 Ankhen 1968

141 Coolie 1983

142 Saboot 1980

143 Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam 1999

144 Shaheed 1948

145 Dastaan 1972

146 Telephone Ni Taruni 1926

147 Chakravyuha 1978

148 Aakraman 1975

149 Khoon Bhari Maang 1988

150 Shehzada 1972

151 Majhli Didi 1967

152 Chetna 1970

153 Pyar Hi Pyar 1969

154 Street Singer 1938

155 Aashiq Hoon Baharon Ka 1977

156 Mera Saaya 1966

157 Souten 1983

158 Dil-E-Nadaan 1982

159 Rupaye Dus Karod 1991

160 Veer-Zaara 2004

161 New Delhi 1956

162 Budtameez 1966

163 Sant Tukaram 1936

164 Rajkumar 1964

165 Samadhi 1950

166 Bidyapati 1937

167 Khazanchi 1941

168 Purab Aur Pachhim 1970

169 Saheli 1965

170 Love in Tokyo 1966

171 Lamhe 1991

172 Chashme Buddoor 1981

173 Dil Tera Diwana 1962

174 Basant 1942

175 Chhoti Bahu 1971

176 Madhuri 1928

177 Aadmi 1968

178 Station Master 1942

179 Maalik 1972

180 Roti 1974

181 Amrit 1986

182 Palkon Ki Chhaon Mein 1977

183 Aurat 1940

184 Bluff Master 1963

185 Maha Chor 1976

186 Love 86 1986

187 Khandaan 1942

188 Ladki Sahyadri Ki 1966

189 Amrit Manthan 1934

190 Waqt 1965

191 Jewel Thief 1967

192 Baharon Ke Sapne 1967

193 Jodhaa Akbar 2008

194 Prithvi Vallabh 1943

195 Chor Machaye Shor 1974

196 Chand 1959

197 Bairaag 1976

198 Howrah Bridge 1958

199 Basant Bahar 1956

200 Anuraag 1972

201 Professor 1962

202 Pinjra 1972

203 Bundal Baaz 1976

204 Purani Haveli 1989

205 Phagun 1958

206 Barsaat Ki Raat 1960

207 Do Ankhen Barah Haath 1957

208 Patthar Ke Sanam 1967

209 Nagin 1954

210 Raja Rani 1973

211 Mahal 1949

212 Shahjehan 1946

213 Baharon Ki Manzil 1968

214 Haseena Maan Jayegi 1968

215 Mere Mehboob 1963

216 Namak Halaal 1982

217 Raj Hath 1956

218 Biraj Bahu 1954

219 Chhaya 1961

220 Naya Daur 1957

221 Bhakta Surdas 1942

222 Vidya 1948

223 Satta Bazaar 1959

224 Utsav 1984

225 Ajooba Kudrat Ka 1991

226 Biwi Aur Makan 1966

227 Aashirwad 1968

228 Bharat Milap 1942

229 Bhakta Kabir 1942

230 Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu 1954

231 Kala Pani 1958

232 Aah 1953

233 Parineeta 1953

234 Mughal-E-Azam 1960

235 Seeta Aur Geeta 1972

236 Aaye Din Bahar Ke 1966

237 Shahenshah 1988

238 Padosi 1941

239 Julie 1975

240 Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. 2003

241 Ittefaq 1969

242 Pyar Kiye Jaa 1966

243 Darwaza 1978

244 Gunga Jumna 1961

245 Sawan Ko Aane Do 1979

246 Roop Tera Mastana 1972

247 Andhera 1975

248 Kudrat 1981

249 Saraswatichandra 1968

250 Satyamev Jayate 1987

251 Junglee 1961

252 Mera Gaon Mera Desh 1971

253 Achhut Kanya 1936

254 Caravan 1971

255 Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar 1992

256 Janta Hawaldar 1979

257 Madhosh 1951

258 Rajput 1982

259 Pati Patni Aur Woh 1978

260 Dharam Kanta 1982

261 Chhailla Babu 1977

262 Gehra Daag 1963

263 Tere Ghar Ke Samne 1963

264 Nausherwan-E-Adil 1957

265 Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi 1958

266 Gopal Krishna 1979

267 Pyaasa 1957

268 Do Gaz Zameen Ke Neeche 1972

269 Qaidi 1984

270 Hukumat 1987

271 Jis Desh Men Ganga Behti Hai 1960

272 Chakradhari 1954

273 Ek Shriman Ek Shrimati 1969

274 Tohfa 1984

275 Alibaba and 40 Thieves 1954

276 Pyar Jhukta Nahin 1985

277 Shaan 1980

278 Telephone 1985

279 Aage Ki Soch 1988

280 Lahore 1949

281 Karishma Kudrat Kaa 1985

282 Yeh Rastey Hain Pyar Ke 1963

283 Funtoosh 1956

284 Veer Ghatotkach 1949

285 Sati Sulochana 1969

286 Agar Tum Na Hote 1983

287 Rajnigandha 1974

288 Dekh Kabira Roya 1957

289 Krishna Bhakt Sudaama 1968

290 Subah Ka Tara 1954

291 Gopal Krishna 1938

292 Darogaji 1949

293 Hatyara 1977

294 Naya Bakra 1979

295 Shadi Se Pahale 1980

296 Lalkar (The Challenge) 1972

297 Shrimanji 1968

298 Rakshaa Bandhan 1976

299 Jaani Dushman 1979

300 Dard (Conflict of Emotions) 1981

301 Bandh Darwaza 1990

302 Satyakam 1969

303 Nartaki 1940

304 Achhut 1939

305 Khol De Meri Zuban 1989

306 College Girl 1960

307 Samson 1964

308 Matwala Shair Ramjoshi 1947

309 Garam Coat 1955

310 Do Dil 1966

311 Yakeen 1969

312 Sawan Ki Ghata 1966

313 Raj Tilak 1959

314 Tamanna 1969

315 Bachpan 1970

316 Kalyug Aur Ramayan 1987

317 Aahuti 1978

318 Sone Ka Dil Lohe Ke Haath 1978

319 Waris 1954

320 Ankhiyon Ke Jharokhon Se 1978

321 Raadha Aur Seeta 1979

322 Bees Saal Baad 1962

323 Bahurani 1964

324 Suhagan 1964

325 Solva Sawan 1979

326 Devdas 1936

327 Namoona 1949

328 Yahan Wahan 1984

329 Shair 1949

330 Katha 1983

331 Aage Badho 1947

332 Taaqat 1982

333 Chandni 1989

334 Sanjog 1943

335 Pati Bhakti 1922

336 Deewana 1992

337 Elan 1947

338 Mirza Ghalib 1954

339 Doctor 1940

340 Afsar 1950

341 Chandidas 1934

342 Paying Guest 1957

343 Bazar 1949

344 Apna Desh 1949

345 Halla Gulla 1954

346 Sadma 1983

347 Kamar-Al-Zaman 1931

348 Shirin Farhad 1931

349 Baadbaan 1954

350 Haqeeqat 1964

351 Nadaan 1951

352 Paraya Ghar 1989

353 Nagma-E-Sahra 1945

354 Hum 1991

355 Nauker 1979

356 Pakeezah 1972

357 Kissise Na Kehna 1983

358 Nagin Aur Suhagan 1979

359 Hum Kisise Kum Naheen 1977

360 Balak Aur Janwar 1975

361 Archana 1974

362 Ek Thi Larki 1949

363 Griha Pravesh 1979

364 Ra Kawat 1926

365 Khudgarz 1987

366 Jadugar 1946

367 Nakhrewali 1960

368 Gaon Ki Gori 1945

369 Awaara 1951

370 Jalan 1948

371 Kisan Kanya 1937

372 Parichay 1972

373 Shatranj Ke Khilari 1977

374 Insaaf Main Karoonga 1985

375 Indian 1996

376 Aakhri Cheekh 1991

377 Jamaibabu 1931

378 Sholay 1975

379 Agent Vinod 1977

380 Dil Kaa Heera 1979

381 Tinku 1977

382 Ek Gaon Ki Kahani 1957

383 Mai Baap 1957

384 Waman Avtar 1955

385 C.I.D. 1956

386 Jai Bhawani 1947

387 Damaad 1951

388 Khatta Meetha 1978

389 Masterji 1985

390 Chhabila 1955

391 Do Aur Do Paanch 1980

392 Upkar 1967

393 Rangeela Raja 1960

394 Baghdad Ki Raaten 1962

395 Nayakan 1987

396 Nawab Sahib 1978

397 Ranga Khush 1975

398 Bhartrahari 1944

399 Khooni Katar 1931

400 Kaamchor 1982

401 Boot Polish 1954

402 Pratiggya 1975

403 Victoria No. 203 1972

404 Insaf Ki Pukar 1987

405 Shola Aur Shabnam 1992

406 Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki 1978

407 36 Ghante 1974

408 Gol Maal 1979

409 Dr. Vidya 1962

410 Naya Zamana 1971

411 Sant Tulsidas 1939

412 Khubsoorat 1980

413 Sasural 1961

414 Tumhara Kalloo 1975

415 Kismat 1969

416 Adhikar 1986

417 Pannadai 1945

418 Inspector Eagle 1979

419 Bahar 1951

420 Chowkidar 1974

421 Muraliwala 1927

422 Dhool Ka Phool 1959

423 Mahabharat 1965

424 Indrasabha 1932

425 Pooja 1940

426 Dharmatma 1935

427 Devdas 1935

428 3D Saamri 1985

429 Panna 1944

430 Dak Ghar 1965

431 Aadmi Aur Insaan 1969

432 Maa 1957

433 Charitraheen 1974

434 Apne Rang Hazaar 1975

435 Pujarin 1969

436 Apne Dushman 1975

437 Gharwali Baharwali 1988

438 Dhoop Chhaon 1935

439 Chaani 1977

440 Bulbule Parastan 1926

441 Adventures of Aladdin 1978

442 Mere Hamdam Mere Dost 1968

443 Dosti 1946

444 Biwi Ho To Aisi 1988

445 Ustaad 1989

446 Aulad 1987

447 Chupke Chupke 1975

448 Vismi Sadi 1924

449 Naya Din Nai Raat 1974

450 Jeet 1949

451 Shri Krishna Leela 1971

452 Stree 1961

453 Krodhi 1981

454 Hanumaan Pataal Vijay 1951

455 Noorjehan 1967

456 Aaya Toofan 1964

457 Sikandar 1941

458 Anjali 1990

459 Nirali Duniya 1940

460 Baton Baton Mein 1979

461 Tansen 1943

462 Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... 2001

463 Kohraa 1964

464 Pyar Ka Mausam 1969

465 Aasha 1980

466 Andaz Apna Apna 1994

467 Purana Mandir 1984

468 Gateway of India 1957

469 College Girl 1978

470 Rukmini Swayamvar 1946

471 Ram Rajya 1943

472 Kab? Kyoon? Aur Kahan? 1970

473 Kashinath 1943

474 Narsi Bhagat 1940

475 Baghi Sipahi 1958

476 Solah Shukrawar 1977

477 Purana Purush

478 Satyam Shivam Sundaram: Love Sublime 1978

479 Hum Dono 1985

480 Prem Geet 1981

481 Do Bigha Zamin 1953

482 Choron Ka Chor 1970

483 Chandi Sona 1977

484 Pyar Ka Devta 1990

485 Dak Bangla 1987

486 Aankh Ka Tara 1978

487 Call Girl 1974

488 Awara Ladki 1975

489 Do Sitare 1951

490 Main Intequam Loonga 1982

491 Gharaonda 1977

492 Amrit 1941

493 Baazigar 1959

494 Bhabhi 1957

495 Sangeet Samrat Tansen 1962

496 Jhansi Ki Rani 1953

497 Mahal 1970

498 Jagriti 1955

499 Kala Pahad 1927

500 Nadiya Ke Paar 1948

501 Kathputli 1971

502 Foot Path 1953

503 Dus Numbri 1976

504 Manzil 1936

505 Aag 1948

506 Albela 1951

507 Char Minar 1956

508 Baghdad 1952

509 Babu 1985

510 Chirag Kahan Roshni Kahan 1959

511 Tere Mere Beech Mein 1984

512 Andheri Raat Mein Diya Tere Haath Mein 1986

513 Paapi 1977

514 Dekha Pyaar Tumhara 1963

515 Haré Rama Haré Krishna 1971

516 Dr. Madhurika 1935

517 Udhaar 1949

518 Pak Daman 1940

519 Pocket Maar 1956

520 Heera Panna 1973

521 Hotel 1981

522 Mohini 1940

523 Mahaadev 1989

524 Swarag Se Sunder 1986

525 Raat Ke Rahi 1959

526 Sannata 1981

527 Saajan Ki Saheli 1981

528 Bin Phere Hum Tere 1979

529 Kapalkundala 1929

530 Mazdoor Zindabaad 1976

531 Mera Naam Joker 1970

532 Amar 1954

533 Pagal Premi 1926

534 Taxi Driver 1954

535 Prapanch Pash 1929

536 Raja Saab 1969

537 Sati Padmini 1924

538 Ghar Ek Mandir 1984

539 Shola Jo Bhadke 1961

540 Hariyali Aur Rasta 1962

541 Azadi Ki Raah Par 1948

542 Naram Garam 1981

543 Ham Sab Chor Hain 1956

544 Jab Jab Phool Khile 1965

545 Shandar 1990

546 Dushman 1938

547 Pardesi 1993

548 Anari 1959

549 Jeevan Prabhat 1937

550 Majaal 1987

551 Pyar Mohabbat 1966

552 Inspector Dhanush 1991

553 Shaitani Ilaaka 1990

554 Kanoon 1960

555 Madhumati 1958

556 Marte Dam Tak 1987

557 Muqaddar Ka Faisla 1987

558 Lakshmi Narayan 1951

559 Alam Ara 1931

560 Imaan 1974

561 Agni Rekha 1973

562 Angaarey 1975

563 Do Ladkiyan 1976

564 Bahadur 1944

565 Khel 1950

566 Khel Khel Mein 1975

567 Rang Birangi 1983

568 Dil Aur Patthar 1977

569 C.I.D. 1990

570 Dillagi 1942

571 Shabistan 1951

572 Garam Khoon 1980

573 Jagmagati Jawani 1930

574 Kaalia 1981

575 Rang 1993

576 Resham Ki Dori 1974

577 Mili 1975

578 Main Awara Hoon 1983

579 Guest House 1980

580 Pyar Hua Chori Chori 1992

581 No Entry 2005

582 Anari No. 1 1999

583 Khal Nayak 1993

584 Zimbo Shaher Mein 1960

585 Life's for Living: Aadmi 1939

586 Chhoti Si Baat 1976

587 Pushpaka Vimana 1987

588 Haisiyat 1984

589 Sampoorna Ramayana 1961

590 Gunahon Ka Devta 1990

591 Mahatma Vidur 1943

592 Jahan Sati Wahan Bhagwan 1965

593 Lal Haveli 1944

594 Rangila 1953

595 Baazi 1984

596 Sitamgar 1985

597 Saath Saath 1982

598 Yalgaar 1992

599 Buddha Mil Gaya 1971

600 Nastik 1954

601 Bees Saal Pehle 1972

602 Raja Babu 1994

603 Safed Jhoot 1978

604 Jaal 1952

605 Hukum ka ekka 1964

606 Minoo 1977

607 Naache Mayuri 1986

608 Mangu Dada 1970

609 Geet Gaaya Pattharon Ne 1964

610 Chitralekha 1941

611 Saathi 1968

612 Kirayadar 1986

613 Jurm 1990

614 Raahee 1987

615 Ek Phool Do Mali 1969

616 Manchali 1973

617 Shalimar 1978

618 Muflis Ashaq 1932

619 Ashiana 1952

620 Yahudi 1958

621 Jugnu 1973

622 Kalyug 1981

623 Kali Ghata 1980

624 Zindagi 1976

625 Patita 1953

626 Ravan Raaj: A True Story 1995

627 Chandni 1942

628 Oonche Log 1965

629 Boy Friend 1961

630 Diler Hasina 1960

631 Loafer 1973

632 Ishq Par Zor Nahin 1970

633 Vishwatma 1992

634 Actress 1948

635 Suhaag 1979

636 Judaai 1980

637 Pyar Ka Sapna 1969

638 Taqdeer 1967

639 Goraa 1987

640 Koshish 1972

641 Mujhe Insaaf Chahiye 1983

642 Begaanaa 1986

643 Dil Hi To Hai 1963

644 Arzoo 1965

645 Love Marriage 1959

646 Karan Arjun 1995

647 Aflatoon 1951

648 Talaashi 1996

649 Bewafai 1985

650 Khoj 1989

651 Watan Ke Rakhwale 1987

652 Bandish 1980

653 Sikandar E Azam 1965

654 Padosi 1971

655 Dil 1990

656 Vaastav: The Reality 1999

657 Man Tera Tan Mera 1971

658 Baazigar 1993

659 Badla Aur Balidan 1980

660 Munnibai 1999

661 Chandidas 1927

662 Dharti 1970

663 Paar 1984

664 Mafia Raaj 1998

665 Chacha Zindabad 1959

666 Madadgaar 1987

667 Samrat Prithviraj Chauhan 1959

668 Police Public 1990

669 Dhoop Chhaon 1977

670 Jab Se Tumhe Dekha Hai 1963

671 Kavi Kalidas 1959

672 Daulat 1982

673 Sawan Ke Geet 1978

674 Tu Nahin Aur Sahi 1960

675 Dhoti Lota Aur Chowpatty 1975

676 Rajrani Meera 1933

677 Hamrahi 1963

678 Paap Ka Ant 1989

679 Janbaaz 1986

680 Bharat Ka Lal 1936

681 Nagin 1976

682 Kala Bazar 1960

683 Jahan Pyar Miley 1969

684 Hyderabad Ki Nazneen 1952

685 Oonchi Haveli 1955

686 Phir Subha Hogi 1958

687 Zindagi 1940

688 Sindoor 1987

689 Seema 1955

690 Zamana 1985

691 Ghungroo Ki Awaaz 1981

692 Tahkhana 1986

693 Naya Kadam 1984

694 Guddi 1971

695 Sadhna 1958

696 Pyar Ka Karz 1990

697 Heer Raanjha 1970

698 Ardhangini 1959

699 Rishte Naahte 1965

700 Prem Kahani 1937

701 Prem Pujari 1970

702 Bhole Bhale 1950

703 Shaheed 1965

704 Raja Bhaiya 2003

705 Prem Nagar 1940

706 Adhikar 1971

707 Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje 1955

708 Sohag Raat 1948

709 Itihaas 1987

710 Jhoola 1941

711 Patanga 1949

712 Agni Pareeksha 1981

713 Sangam 1964

714 Raj Mahal 1982

715 Maha-Sangram 1990

716 Tarana 1951

717 Hurricane Special 1939

718 Mohan 1947

719 Hungama 1971

720 Hero 1983

721 Censor 2001

722 Mission Kashmir 2000

723 Souten Ki Beti 1989

724 Jwar Bhata 1973

725 Sharara 1984

726 Begunaah 1991

727 Mausam 1975

728 Karwane Hayat 1935

729 Mohabbat Zindagi Hai 1966

730 Main Azaad Hoon 1989

731 Bhakt Raj 1960

732 Beti 1957

733 Mr. and Mrs. Bombay 1936

734 House No. 44 1955

735 Dalaal 1993

736 Jawan Muhabat 1971

737 Bhanwar 1976

738 Aankhen 1993

739 Sandwich 2006

740 Insaan 1982

741 Yaarana 1981

742 Do Sholay 1977

743 The Modern Girl 1935

744 Sunehra Sansar 1975

745 Sasurvaas 1946

746 Paap Ki Duniya 1988

747 Pati Patni Aur Tawaif 1990

748 Hum Bhi Insaan Hain 1948

749 Half Ticket 1962

750 Gopinath 1948

751 Dharti Mata 1938

752 Khuda Gawah 1992

753 Raaz 1967

754 Zindagi 1964

755 Khuni Khanjar 1930

756 Daulat Ke Dushman 1983

757 Ashanti 1982

758 Tum Haseen Main Jawan 1970

759 Mr. Natwarlal 1979

760 Mumtaz Mahal 1944

761 Gumrah 1993

762 Naseeb 1998

763 Naukari 1955

764 Pukar 1983

765 Aur Kaun? 1979

766 Kabhie Kabhie 1976

767 Nafrat Ki Aandhi 1989

768 Vijay 1988

769 Geet 1970

770 Dil Hai Ki Manta Nahin 1991

771 Zakhmi Sipahi 1995

772 Border 1997

773 Saajan Bina Suhagan 1978

774 Shri Ganesh Mahima 1950

775 Honeymoon 1973

776 Noorie 1979

777 Chal Chal Re Navjavan 1944

778 Dhanwan 1981

779 Rustom Sohrab 1967

780 Taj Mahal 1963

781 Punjab Mail 1929

782 Bhamto Bhut 1926

783 Inquilaab 1984

784 Dawat 1974

785 Jai Mahadev 1955

786 Yauvan Chakra 1926

787 Kunwara Baap 1974

788 Shararat 1959

789 Roti Kapada Aur Makaan 1974

790 Saajan 1991

791 Shravan Kumar 1984

792 Bachao - Inside Bhoot Hai... 2010

793 Yehi Hai Zindagi 1977

794 Intaquam 1969

795 Mukti 1937

796 Das Baje 1942

797 Nagina 1986

798 Kaaranama 1990

799 Abhimaan 1957

800 Dahshat 1981

801 Senapati 1961

802 Lucky Number 1961

803 Gunda 1998

804 Jeene Ki Raah 1969

805 Mohabbat Ki Kasam 1986

806 Naach Govinda Naach 1992

807 Deewaar 1975

808 Aakhree Raasta 1986

809 Awwal Number 1990

810 Angaara 1996

811 Jaadugar 1989

812 Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke 1993

813 Roti Kee Keemat 1990

814 Ek Sapera Ek Lutera 1965

815 Hum Se Na Takrana 1990

816 Sikandar Sadak Ka 1999

817 Tumhari Kasam 1948

818 Samraat 1982

819 Haseena Maan Jaayegi 1999

820 Raate Ke Andhere Mein 1969

821 Beta Ho To Aisa 1994

822 Padosan 1968

823 Heera Lal Panna Lal 1999

824 Cinema Ki Rani 1925

825 Badnam Farishte 1971

826 Aakhri Adaalat 1988

827 Mawaali 1983

828 Mohabbat Ke Aansu 1932

829 Baharen Phir Bhi Aayengi 1966

830 Jaan Se Pyaara 1992

831 Nirbhay 1996

832 Daya Ni Devi 1927

833 Sipahsalar 1956

834 Anaar 1986

835 Do Chor 1972

836 Geraftaar 1985

837 Farishtay 1991

838 Ghutan 2007

839 Sanjog 1961

840 Shandaar 1974

841 Goonj 1952

842 Dil To Pagal Hai 1997

843 Oh Bewafa 1980

844 Bhule Bhatke 1952

845 Deewar 1955

846 Qurbani 1980

847 Ek Se Badhkar Ek 1976

848 Milap 1955

849 Suraj 1966

850 Ram Aur Shyam 1967

851 Wazir E Azam 1961

852 Anokhi Ada 1948

853 Maze Le Lo 1975

854 Aaj Ka Daur 1985

855 Singhasan 1986

856 Ab Ayega Mazaa 1984

857 Raj Rang 1928

858 Pyar Ka Mandir 1988

859 Milan 1967

860 Barood 1976

861 Biwi-O-Biwi 1981

862 Prem Rog 1982

863 Tigress 1948

864 Duniya Hai Dilwalon Ki 1966

865 Jagat Mohini 1940

866 Jodi No. 1 2001

867 Lagan 1941

868 Pet Pyaar Aur Paap 1984

869 Karma 1986

870 Sharmeelee 1971

871 Dharm Aur Qanoon 1984

872 Hey Ram 2000

873 Mere Apne 1971

874 Ganga Maang Rahi Balidan 1981

875 Dharti Kahe Pukar Ke 1969

876 Ek Nannhi Munni Ladki Thi 1970

877 Kasam Suhag Ki 1989

878 Duniya Na Mane 1938

879 Madam Zapatta 1962

880 Dhake Ki Malmal 1956

881 Zalzala 1988

882 Kyo Kii... Main Jhuth Nahin Bolta 2001

883 Actor 1950

884 Sheikh Chilli 1956

885 Apne Paraye 1980

886 Prithvi Putra 1926

887 Gamdeni Gori 1927

888 Aag Hi Aag 1987

889 Waaris 1988

890 Dhiraj 1942

891 Raagini 1958

892 New Delhi 1987

893 Saajan Chale Sasural 1996

894 Bombai Ka Babu 1960

895 Bharat Ramani 1930

896 Manzil 1960

897 Aashiq 1962

898 Samrat Shiladitya 1926

899 Suryaa: An Awakening 1989

900 Akashganga 1959

901 Gangaa Jamunaa Saraswathi 1988

902 Hanste Khelte 1984

903 Khoon Ka Karz 1991

904 Ustad 1957

905 Sehra 1963

906 Prabhu Ki Maya 1955

907 Karodpati 1936

908 Dharmatma 1975

909 Watan 1954

910 Saagar 1985

911 Dekha Pyar Tumhara 1985

912 Son of India 1962

913 Sitapur Ki Geeta 1987

914 Aadhi Roti 1957

915 Gunda 1969

916 Uljhan 1975

917 Gunehgaar 1939

918 Dharam Sankat 1991

919 Angaaray 1986

920 Azad Hindustan 1948

921 Romance 1983

922 Paraya Dhan 1971

923 Achanak 1998

924 Ganga Ki Kasam 1998

925 Ssukh 2005

926 Kath Putli 1957

927 Jaanwar 1982

928 Bhole Piya 1949

929 Jai Dwarkadheesh 1977

930 Aandhi 1975

931 Veer Parshuram 1978

932 Ram Bharose 1977

933 Red Rose 1980

934 Ghar Ki Izzat 1949

935 Sampoorna Santoshi Maa Ki Mahima 1981

936 Ram Balram 1980

937 Kali Ganga 1990

938 Yamraaj 1998

939 Tan-Badan 1986

940 Mohar 1959

941 Raaj Tilak 1984

942 Chauranghee 1942

943 Shikar 1968

944 Police Aur Mujrim 1992

945 Hatyara 1998

946 Aakhri Khat 1966

947 Lage Raho Munna Bhai 2006

948 Bewaqoof 1960

949 Batwara 1989

950 Daku Aur Mahatma 1977

951 Muqaddar Ka Badshaah 1990

952 Phir Wohi Raat 1980

953 Lekin... 1990

954 Pyar Ke Naam Qurban 1990

955 Tumse Achha Kaun Hai 1969

956 Maa 1992

957 Neend Hamari Khwab Tumhare 1966

958 Dhan Daulat 1980

959 Sinhagad 1923

960 Mem-Didi 1961

961 Dholak 1951

962 Mere Huzoor 1968

963 Bilwamangal 1932

964 Ek Hi Raasta 1939

965 Bakhshish 1950

966 Mard Ki Zabaan 1987

967 Himmatwala 1998

968 Salma 1985

969 Sheesh Mahal 1950

970 Shatranj 1969

971 Bank Manager 1959

972 Durgaa 1985

973 Tangewala 1972

974 Pardesi Babu 1998

975 Grama Kanya 1936

976 Sant Janabai 1949

977 Nai Roshni 1967

978 Lakhpati 1991

979 Jungle Princess 1942

980 Karmayogi 1978

981 Haar Jeet 1972

982 Karz Chukana Hai 1991

983 Patit Pawan 1933

984 Shaukeen 1949

985 Jaag Utha Insan 1984

986 Pushpanjali 1970

987 Palki 1967

988 Balam 1949

989 Vardi 1989

990 Jogan 1950

991 Bandhan Kuchchey Dhaagon Ka 1983

992 Veer Durgadas 1960

993 Navrang 1959

994 Socha Na Tha 1989

995 Bhagam Bhag 2006

996 Star 1982

997 College Girl 1990

998 Rocky 1981

999 Khush Rado 1949

1000 Bahadur Jeevan 1948

1001 Mohabbatein 2000

1002 Safdar Jung 1930

1003 Sapne Suhane 1961

1004 Ek Aur Ek Gyarah 1981

1005 Ek Aur Ek Gyarah: By Hook or by Crook 2003

1006 Arzoo 1950

1007 Devdas 1928

1008 Anamika 1973

1009 Mard 1998

1010 Jodidar 1997

1011 Ayee Milan Ki Bela 1964

1012 Char Aankhen 1946

1013 Krishnaavtar 1964

1014 Vanasundari 1951

1015 Grahasti 1948

1016 Dost 1944

1017 Duniya Ek Tamasha 1942

1018 Imtihan 1974

1019 The Burning Train 1980

1020 Amar Jyoti 1936

1021 Sadak 1991

1022 Ganesh Janma 1930

1023 Ji Haan 1945

1024 Aaj Ka Arjun 1990

1025 Dhola Maru 1956

1026 Karwa Chouth 1978

1027 Aakhir Kyon? 1985

1028 Paisa Ya Pyar 1969

1029 Salaam Mem Saheb 1961

1030 Woh Phir Aayegi 1988

1031 Shikari 1932

1032 Jaane-Anjaane 1971

1033 Azaad 1955

1034 Gadar: Ek Prem Katha 2001

1035 Main Kya Karun 1945

1036 Pathan 1962

1037 Phaansi 1978

1038 Aandhiyan 1952

1039 11 O'Clock 1948

1040 Kar Bhala 1956

1041 Lakhon Ki Baat 1984

1042 Tulsi 1985

1043 Typist Girl 1926

1044 Toorkey Hoor 1924

1045 Darr 1993

1046 Kaala Patthar 1979

1047 Sher-E-Hindustan 1997

1048 Madhuri 1932

1049 Kanyadaan 1968

1050 Chachi 420 1997

1051 Dukh Sukh 1942

1052 Bazaar 1982

1053 Mohabbat Ke Dushman 1988

1054 Khamosh 1986

1055 Shatru 1986

1056 Sanam Teri Kasam 1982

1057 Dil Diya Dard Liya 1966

1058 Pujarin 1936

1059 Gaon Hamara Shaher Tumhara 1972

1060 Aalavandhan 2001

1061 Swarg Narak 1978

1062 Kal Aaj Aur Kal 1971

1063 Manoranjan 1974

1064 Hathyar 1989

1065 Nakli Nawab 1962

1066 Surekha Haran 1921

1067 Phool Bane Angaare 1963

1068 Qatl 1986

1069 Chhupa Chhuppi 1981

1070 Jeeo Aur Jeene Do 1982

1071 Chhota Jawan 1963

1072 Khuda Kasam 1981

1073 Haath Ki Safai 1974

1074 Bin Baap Ka Beta 1979

1075 Jaani Dost 1983

1076 Sur Sangam 1985

1077 Paap Ki Kamaee 1990

1078 Do Gunde 1959

1079 Barsaat 1995

1080 Bari Behen 1949

1081 Passing Show 1956

1082 Fiffty Fiffty 1981

1083 Road No. 303 1960

1084 Arab Ka Sona: Abu Kaalia 1979

1085 Dil Aur Mohabbat 1968

1086 Hong Kong 1962

1087 Rocky Mera Naam 1973

1088 Johar Mehmood in Hong Kong 1971

1089 Masoom 1960

1090 Sindbad the Sailor 1952

1091 Sajan Ka Ghar 1948

1092 Salaakhen 1975

1093 Nagin Aur Sapera 1966

1094 Main Shadi Karne Chala 1962

1095 Labela 1966

1096 Pyaar Ki Raat 1949

1097 Azaad Desh Ke Gulam 1990

1098 Aatish 1979

1099 Ram Lila 1961

1100 Hunterwali 1935

1101 Muqaddar 1978

1102 Naukar Biwi Ka 1983

1103 Indira M.A. 1934

1104 Paap Ko Jalaa Kar Raakh Kar Doonga 1988

1105 Bhai-Bhai 1956

1106 Bhakta Vidur 1922

1107 Juari 1968

1108 Ghar Ghar Ki Kahani 1970

1109 Kaala Sona 1975

1110 Patthar Ke Phool 1991

1111 Apne Dam Par 1996

1112 Rocket Girl 1962

1113 Kartavya 1979

1114 Badmash 1969

1115 Chhote Sarkar 1996

1116 Gambler 1995

1117 Trishul 1978

1118 Nishchaiy 1992

1119 Waqt Ka Badshah 1992

1120 Ustadon Ke Ustad 1963

1121 Maarg 1992

1122 Dastan 1950

1123 Professor Pyarelal 1981

1124 Kasam Khoon Ki 1977

1125 Zameen Ke Tare 1960

1126 Joker 1949

1127 Thodisi Bewafaii 1980

1128 Raja Jani 1972

1129 Karmyudh 1985

1130 Makkhee Choos 1956

1131 Bahadur Kisan 1938

1132 Ghulami 1985

1133 Basant 1960

1134 Dilavar 1984

1135 Elaan 1971

1136 Jail Yatra 1981

1137 Katil Katar 1935

1138 Divorce 1984

1139 Jaan Hatheli Pe 1986

1140 Gair Kaanooni 1989

1141 Dil Hai Tumhaara 2002

1142 Devta 1998

1143 Desh Drohi 2008

1144 Aadmi Khilona Hai 1993

1145 Loha 1987

1146 Maya Bazaar 1932

1147 Adhikar 1938

1148 Kahani Kismat Ki 1973

1149 Anokha Milan 1972

1150 The Don 1995

1151 Badi Maa 1945

1152 Sweety 1981

1153 Rakhwala 1971

1154 Apnapan 1977

1155 Roop Lekha 1949

1156 Yeh Desh 1984

1157 Hatya 1988

1158 Blackmail 1973

1159 Aa Ab Laut Chalen 1999

1160 Humshakal 1992

1161 Jung 1996

1162 Teesra Kaun 1965

1163 Balidan 1927

1164 Bhagam Bhag 1956

1165 Jallaad 1995

1166 Coolie No. 1 1995

1167 Amar Akbar Anthony 1977

1168 Mahaveera 1988

1169 Achchhaji 1950

1170 Dayavan 1988

1171 Tarkeeb 1984

1172 Jaaye To Jaaye Kahan 1980

1173 Aalha Udal 1962

1174 Sachai Ki Taqat 1989

1175 Pagla Kahin Ka 1970

1176 Adhikar 1954

1177 Saudagar 1991

1178 Mala the Mighty 1948

1179 Woh Kaun Thi? 1964

1180 Chudiyan 1942

1181 Zaban 1943

1182 Do Jasoos 1975

1183 Rustom-E-Baghdad 1963

1184 Kalakar 1942

1185 Sargam 1979

1186 Awaaz 1984

1187 Vaasna 1968

1188 Ajeeb Ladki 1952

1189 Reshmi Rumal 1961

1190 Bulundi 1981

1191 Chambal Ki Kassam 1980

1192 Devata 1978

1193 Himmat-e-Marda 1935

1194 Humsafar 1953

1195 Opera House 1961

1196 Bachke Rahna 1949

1197 Pehla Aadmi 1950

1198 Pareeksha 1963

1199 Aag Ka Dariya 1953

1200 Haathkadi 1995

1201 Karishmaa 1984

1202 Hum Hain Lajawaab 1984

1203 Rajaji 1999

1204 Tarzan Goes to India 1962

1205 Arjun Pandit 1976

1206 Heer 1956

1207 Halaal Ki Kamai 1988

1208 Jigar 1949

1209 Aakhri Baazi 1989

1210 Preet Na Jane Reet 1966

1211 Hind Mahila 1936

1212 Ram Lakhan 1989

1213 Pagli 1974

1214 Aisa Bhi Hota Hain 1971

1215 Ek Bar Mooskura Do 1972

1216 Bandhan 1956

1217 Lalach 1948

1218 Rama O Rama 1988

1219 Sarfarosh 1956

1220 Zindagi 1942

1221 Albela 2001

1222 Anokha Rishta 1986

1223 Ghar Mein Ram Gali Mein Shyam 1988

1224 Pyaar Diwana Hota Hai 2002

1225 Farz Ki Jung 1989

1226 Shiva Shakti 1988

1227 Asmaan Se Ooncha 1989

1228 Judgement of Allah 1935

1229 Jayshree 1956

1230 Anarkali 1935

1231 Aaj Ka Hindustan 1940

1232 Tohfa Mohabbat Ka 1988

1233 Teri Kasam 1982

1234 Mem Sahib 1956

1235 Singapore 1960

1236 Anand Math 1952

1237 Aaj Ki Duniya 1940

1238 Tumsa Nahin Dekha 1957

1239 Jal Bin Machhli Nritya Bin Bijli 1971

1240 Mirza Sahiban 1957

1241 Mera Lahoo 1987

1242 Sadaa Suhagan 1986

1243 Durgesh Nandini 1956

1244 Gharana 1989

1245 Lovers 1983

1246 Sulochana 1933

1247 Ek Shola 1956

1248 Kundan 1955

1249 Daku Ki Ladki 1933

1250 Alakh Niranjan 1940

1251 Udayakal 1930

1252 Betaab 1983

1253 Alibaba 1940

1254 Holi 1940

1255 Vishwaroopam 2013

1256 Apsara 1961

1257 Hum Ek Hain 1946

1258 Mr. & Mrs. '55 1955

1259 Chitralekha 1964

1260 Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam 1962

1261 Subah Shyam 1944

1262 Nai Duniya 1942

1263 Preetam 1971

1264 Anjan 1941

1265 Dr. Kotnis Ki Amar Kahani 1946

1266 Khawab-E-Hasti 1934

1267 Karna 1928

1268 Hamara Desh 1941

1269 Dulari 1949

1270 Meri Surat Teri Ankhen 1963

1271 Rashk-e-Laila 1934

1272 Jadui Bandhan 1941

1273 Tirangaa 1992

1274 Kuch Kuch Hota Hai 1998

1275 Dilli Ka Thug 1958

1276 Jawani Ka Rang 1941

1277 Tulsidas 1954

1278 Kanchan 1941

1279 Kasauti 1941

1280 Bedari 1957

1281 Laheri Jeewan 1941

1282 Mere Raja 1941

1283 Mr. Sampat 1952

1284 Dastak 1970

1285 Pyar Ki Jeet 1962

1286 Radhika 1941

1287 Bambai Ki Billi 1936

1288 Jungle Queen 1936

1289 Kanch Ki Gudiya 1961

1290 Jaali Note 1960

1291 Main Aur Meri Tanhai 1980

1292 Shahzadi 1941

1293 Pujarini 1935

1294 Chala Murari Hero Banne 1977

1295 Ghar Parivaar 1991

1296 Mamata Ki Chhaon Mein 1989

1297 Awara Baap 1985

1298 Apna Ghar 1960

1299 Hill Station 1957

1300 Naughty Boy 1962

1301 Maa Beti 1986

1302 Main Tera Dushman 1989

1303 Pyaar Zindagi Hai 2001

1304 Do Dilon Ke Khel Mein 2010

1305 Gunehgaar 1980

1306 New Searchlight 1937

1307 Baazi 1951

1308 Jagat Kesari 1937

1309 Shrimati 420 1956

1310 Ooparwala Jane 1977

1311 Tere Mere Sapne 1971

1312 Miss 58 1958

1313 Zehari Saap 1933

1314 Shri Nagad Narayan 1955

1315 Arab Ka Saudagar 1956

1316 Some Where in Delhi 1956

1317 Man Pasand 1980

1318 Kinare Kinare 1963

1319 Pratima Aur Payal 1977

1320 Prithvi Vallabh 1924

1321 Peechha Karro 1986

1322 Holi Ayee Re 1970

1323 Sanjhi 1985

1324 Kala Dhanda Goray Log 1986

1325 Anjaana 1969

1326 Wafaa 2008

1327 Ek Do Teen 1953

1328 Bharat Milap 1965

1329 Dil Ka Raaja 1972

1330 Insaniyat Ke Devta 1993

1331 Des Pardes 1978

1332 Jawani Ki Hawa 1959

1333 Alag Alag 1985

1334 Awara Shehzadi 1956

1335 Shiv Bhakta 1955

1336 Khel Mohabbat Ka 1986

1337 Suhag Sindoor 1961

1338 Shalimar 1946

1339 Kisan Aur Bhagwan 1974

1340 Amaanat 1977

1341 Lala Rukh 1958

1342 Chandu 1958

1343 Galiyon Ka Badshah 1989

1344 Paapi Pet Ka Sawaal Hai 1984

1345 Jab Pyar Kisise Hota Hai 1961

1346 Sanyasi 1975

1347 Amrapali 1945

1348 Guru Ho Jaa Shuru 1979

1349 Naulakha Haar 1953

1350 Desh Ke Dushman 1989

1351 Taqdeer 1943

1352 Faslah 1974

1353 Suraag 1982

1354 Malik 1958

1355 Yeh Nazdeekiyan 1982

1356 Mumbai Express 2005

1357 Tezaab 1988

1358 Bara Aadmi 1957

1359 Oonche Log 1985

1360 Pardesi 1941

1361 Aanchal 1980

1362 Parwana 1947

1363 Aaj Kaa M.L.A. Ram Avtar 1984

1364 Maa Beta 1962

1365 Nishaan 1983

1366 Sati Naag Kanya 1983

1367 Gambler 1971

1368 Banarasi Babu 1973

1369 Andhera 1943

1370 Chhoti Maa 1943

1371 Amar Deep 1979

1372 Ek Ke Baad Ek 1960

1373 Albeli 1955

1374 Roop Ki Rani Choron Ka Raja 1961

1375 Shaan-e-Hind 1936

1376 Chalta Purza 1977

1377 Baarish 1957

1378 Aag Se Khelenge 1989

1379 Rahi 1953

1380 Muqabla 1979

1381 Dilruba 1950

1382 Aaram 1951

1383 Stage 1951

1384 Azad 1940

1385 Sanam 1951

1386 Beta 1992

1387 Asiai Sitara 1937

1388 Ten O'Clock 1958

1389 Samapti 1949

1390 Badhti Ka Naam Dadhi 1974

1391 Talash 1969

1392 Baat Ek Raat Ki 1962

1393 Aaina 1977

1394 Zalzala 1952

1395 Aurat 1967

1396 Ishk Ishk Ishk 1974

1397 Johny Mera Naam 1970

1398 Arpan 1983

1399 Dushman 1957

1400 Durdesh 1983

1401 Lal Patthar 1971

1402 Armaan 1953

1403 Dil-E-Nadaan 1953

1404 Sone Ki Chidiya 1958

1405 Sazaa 1951

1406 Toote Tare 1948

1407 Do Dooni Char 1968

1408 Bahen 1941

1409 Roti 1942

1410 Diwali Ki Raat 1956

1411 Bhoot Bungla 1965

1412 Sharabi 1964

1413 Raksha 1981

1414 Chand Aur Suraj 1965

1415 Amar Deep 1958

1416 Duniya 1968

1417 Meet Mere Man Ke 1991

1418 Rani Aur Lalpari 1975

1419 Lootmaar 1980

1420 Main Balwaan 1986

1421 Tamasha 1952

1422 Pyaar Kiya To Darna Kya 1963

1423 Musafir Khana 1955

1424 Vikram Shashikala 1949

1425 Faisla 1988

1426 Nasihat 1986

1427 Bhakt Dhruv 1957

1428 Dosti 1964

1429 Shama 1946

1430 Veer Arjun 1952

1431 Aji Bas Shukriya 1958

1432 Dayar E Madina 1975

1433 Assignment Bombay 1978

1434 Adventures of Tarzan 1985

1435 Zara Bachke 1959

1436 Devta 1956

1437 Jangal Mein Mangal 1972

1438 Bade Sarkar 1957

1439 Kali Ghata 1951

1440 Sawan Aya Re 1949

1441 Mayurpankh 1954

1442 Veer Bhimsen 1964

1443 Anmol 1993

1444 Watan Se Door 1968

1445 Hero No. 1 1997

1446 Naya Ghar 1953

1447 Bhai 1944

1448 Shahenshah 1953

1449 Gaal Gulabi Nain Sharabi 1974

1450 Chitchor 1976

1451 Madari 1959

1452 Panchhi 1944

1453 Mirza Sahiban 1939

1454 Naaka Bandi 1990

1455 Zabardast 1985

1456 Phool 1945

1457 Sarkari Mehman 1979

1458 Chandni Chowk 1954

1459 Zeenat 1945

1460 Daasi 1981

1461 Teen Ustad 1961

1462 Aas 1953

1463 House No. 13 1991

1464 Koshish 1943

1465 Johar in Bombay 1967

1466 Humdard 1953

1467 Be-Imaan 1972

1468 Hawa Mahal 1962

1469 Flying Circus 1965

1470 Sankoch 1976

1471 Nannha Farishta 1969

1472 Samaj Ko Badal Dalo 1947

1473 Paise Ke Peechhey 1986

1474 Yateem 1945

1475 Meharbaani 1982

1476 Aanchal Ke Phool 1968

1477 Sher E Watan 1971

1478 Aansoo 1953

1479 Hamara Sansar 1945

1480 Balram Shri Krishna 1968

1481 Rustom-E-Rome 1964

1482 Rahgeer 1943

1483 Naukar 1943

1484 Johar in Kashmir 1966

1485 Bhai Thakur 2000

1486 Zulm Ki Hukumat 1992

1487 Naseebwaala 1992

1488 Khooni Murdaa 1989

1489 Maalik Tere Bande Hum 1972

1490 Hai Meri Jaan 1991

1491 Geet 1992

1492 Mastan Dada 1977

1493 Anokhi Raat 1968

1494 Maila Aanchal 1981

1495 Samaj Ko Badal Dalo 1970

1496 Faasle 1985

1497 Do Fantoosh 1994

1498 Aasra 1966

1499 Maa Ke Aansoo 1959

1500 Angoor 2005

1501 Meenar 1954

1502 Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India 2001

1503 Hum Kahan Ja Rahe Hain 1966

1504 Neelima 1975

1505 Hercules 1964

1506 Lutera Aur Jadugar 1968

1507 Zamane Ki Hawa 1952

1508 Ek Mutthi Aasmaan 1973

1509 Moojrim 1970

1510 Pehli Jhalak 1955

1511 Shiva Ka Insaaf 1985

1512 Hip Hip Hurray 1948

1513 Hum Saath-Saath Hain 1999

1514 Ek Raaz 1963

1515 Chatpati 1983

1516 Aaj Ki Taaza Khabar 1973

1517 Pratishodh 1980

1518 Sautela Bhai 1996

1519 Tawaif 1985

1520 Daku Mansingh 1971

1521 No Parking 2006

1522 Darinda 2005

1523 Ali Baba 1976

1524 Razia Sultan 1983

1525 Najma 1943

1526 Humayun 1945

1527 Arpan 1957

1528 Miss Mary 1957

1529 Piya Milan 1985

1530 Om Shanti Om 2007

1531 Piya Ghar Aaja 1947

1532 Tohfa 1947

1533 Kanhaiya 1959

1534 Saat Phere 1970

1535 Durgaa Maa 1986

1536 Ram Tere Kitne Naam 1985

[lboogie1906]

Birago Diop (December 11, 1906 – November 25, 1989) was a Senegalese poet and storyteller whose work restored general interest in African folktales and promoted him to one of the most outstanding African francophone writers. A renowned veterinarian, diplomat, and leading voice of the Négritude literary movement, he exemplified the "African renaissance man". He earned a scholarship to attend the French-speaking school Lycée Faidherbe in Saint-Louis, which was then Senegal's capital. He became fascinated with the poems and style of writing of Victor Hugo, Charles Baudelaire, Edgar Allan Poe, and several others and began writing his own. He served as a nurse in a military hospital and went on to study and graduate in veterinary medicine at the University of Toulouse. He was most recognized for his poems and folktales, he worked as a veterinary surgeon for the French colonial government in several West African countries, spending 1937–39 in French Sudan (now Mali), 1940 in the Ivory Coast, and French Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso), and 1950 in Mauritania. Throughout his civil service career in 1934, he collected and reworked Wolof folktales, and wrote poetry, memoirs, and a play. He served as the first Senegalese ambassador to Tunisia from 1960 to 1965. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence https://www.instagram.com/p/CmB6QLkLdWJ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[wordscanbeenough]

You lived, but somewhere else, / your presence touched others, ring upon ring / and changed. Did you think / I would not change?

Denise Levertov, from “Everything that Acts is Actual”, Collected Earlier Poems, 1940-1960

#denise levertov #collected earlier poems 1940-1960 #quote #words #poetry #books

[gladiates]

175+ non-Western literature recommendations to diversify your academia, organized by continent + country

I love world literature, and I’ve been frustrated by the lack of representation of it in literature + academia communities on tumblr, so here are some recommendations. I haven’t read all of these myself yet, but the ones I have are excellent and the ones I haven’t come highly recommended from Goodreads and are on my to-read list! 

With the exception of anthologies of older works, all of these books were written before 2000 (some literally thousands of years earlier), since I’m less familiar with super contemporary literature. Also, I only included each writer once, though many of them have multiple amazing books. I’m sure there are plenty of incredible books I’m missing, so please feel free to add on to this list! And countries that aren’t included absolutely have a lot to offer as well--usually, it was just hard to find books available in English translation (which all of the ones below are.)

List below the cut (it’s my first post with a cut so let’s hope I do it right... and also warning that it’s super long)

ASIA:

Bangladesh:

Pather Panchali by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (1929)

China:

Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu (6th century BCE)

The Art of War by Sun Tzu (5th century BCE)

The Analects by Confucius (circa 5th-4th century BCE?)

The Book of Chuang Tzu by Zhuangzi (4th century BCE)

Mencius by Mencius (3rd century BCE)

The Songs of the South: An Anthology of Ancient Chinese Poems by Qu Yuan and Other Poets (2nd century AD)

Li Po and Tu Fu: Poems by Li Po and Tu Fu (written 8th century AD)

Poems of Wang Wei (8th century AD)

Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong (14th century AD)

Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio by Pu Songling (1740)

Dream of the Red Chamber by Xueqin Cao (1791)

Six Records of a Floating Life by Shen Fu (1809)

Diary of a Madman and Other Stories by Lu Xun (1918)

Mr Ma and Son by Lao She (1929)

Family by Ba Jin (1933)

Love in a Fallen City by Eileen Chang (1943)

A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy by Wing-Tsit Chan (1963)

Red Sorghum by Mo Yan (1987)

Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian (1989)

The Big Red Book of Modern Chinese Literature edited by Yunte Huang (anthology, 2016)

India:

The Rig Vega (1500-1200 BCE)

The Mahabharata and the Bhagavad Gita (around 400 BCE but not known exactly. The Gita is part of the Mahabharata)

The Upanishads (REALLY wide date range)

The Dhammapada (3rd century BCE)

The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way by Nāgārjuna (2nd century AD)

The Recognition of Sakuntala by Kālidāsa (4th century AD)

The Way of the Bodhisattva by Santideva (700 AD)

Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore (1910)

Annihilation of Caste by B.R. Ambedkar (1936)

The Discovery of India by Jawaharlal Nehru (1946)

Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh (1956) 

A Source Book in Indian Philosophy by Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan and Charles Alexander Moore (1957)

Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (1981)

A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth (1993)

Women Writing in India: 600 BC to the Present V: The Twentieth Century by Susie J. Tharu and K. Lalita (1993)

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry (1995)

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (1996)

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (1999)

Indian Philosophy in English: From Renaissance to Independence (anthology, 2011)

Indonesia:

The Weaverbirds by Y.B. Mangunwijaya (1981)

Iran:

Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings by Abolqasem Ferdowsi (11th century AD)

The Essential Rumi by Rumi (13th century AD)

The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat (1936)

Savushun by Simin Daneshvar (1969)

My Uncle Napoleon by Iran Pezeshkzad (1973)

Missing Soluch by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi (1979)

Iraq:

Fifteen Iraqi Poets edited by Dunya Mikhail (published 2013 but the poems are 20th century)

Japan:

The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu (9th-10th century AD)

The Pillow Book by Sei Shōnagon (1002 AD)

The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu (1008 AD)

The Tale of the Heike, unknown (12th century AD)

One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each: A Treasury of Classical Japanese Verse (not sure of year)

Essays in Idleness by Yoshida Kenkō (1332)

Kokoro by Natsume Sōseki (1914)

No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai (1948)

Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata (1948)

The Makioka Sisters by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (1948)

Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima (1949)

Masks by Fumiko Enchi (1958)

The Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō Abe (1962)

A Personal Matter by Kenzaburō Ōe (1964)

Silence by Shūsaku Endō (1966)

Korea (written before the division into North/South):

The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong (written 1795-1805)

Lebanon:

Samarkand by Amin Maalouf (1988)

Gate of the Sun by Elias Khoury (1998)

Pakistan:

We Sinful Women: Contemporary Urdu Feminist Poetry (1991)

The Rebel's Silhouette: Selected Poems by Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1991)

The Taste of Words: An Introduction to Urdu Poetry edited by Raza Mir (2014)

Palestine:

Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories by Ghassan Kanafani (1963)

Orientalism by Edward Said (1978)

I Saw Ramallah by Mourid Barghouti (1997)

Mural by Mahmoud Darwish (2000, which technically breaks my rule by a year but it’s great)

Philippines:

Noli Me Tángere by José Rizal (1887)

Saudi Arabia:

Cities of Salt by Abdul Rahman Munif (1984)

Sri Lanka:

Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai (1994)

Syria:

Damascus Nights by Rafik Schami (1989)

Taiwan:

Last Words from Montmartre by Qiu Miaojin (1996)

Turkey:

My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk (1998)

Vietnam:

Spring Essence: The Poetry of Hô Xuân Huong by Hô Xuân Huong (1801)

The Tale of Kieu by Nguyen Du (1820)

Paradise of the Blind by Duong Thu Huong (1988)

Miscellaneous Asia (country unclear or multiple current day countries):

The Epic of Gilgamesh (circa 1800 BCE)

Myths from Mesopotamia translated by Stephanie Dailey

The Arabian Nights (as early as the 9th century AD, lots of changes over the years)

The Qur’an

AFRICA:

Algeria:

Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade by Assia Djebar (1985)

The Bridges of Constantine by Ahlam Mosteghanemi (1993)

Cameroon:

Houseboy by Ferdinand Oyono (1956)

Egypt:

The Tale of Sinuhe and Other Ancient Egyptian Poems 1940 - 1640 B.C. translated by R.B. Parkinson

Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz (1956)

The Sinners by Yusuf Idris (1959)

Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi (1975)

The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif (1999)

Ghana:

Our Sister Killjoy by Ama Ata Aidoo (1977)

Two Thousand Seasons by Ayi Kwei Armah (1979)

In My Father’s House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture by Kwame Anthony Appiah (1992)

Guinea:

The Radiance of the King by Camara Laye (1954)

Kenya:

A Grain of Wheat by Ngugi wa Thing'o (1994)

The River and the Source by Margaret A. Ogola (1995)

Libya:

The Bleeding of the Stone by Ibrahim al-Koni (1990)

Mali:

The Fortunes of Wangrin by Amadou Hampâté Bâ (1973)

Nigeria:

The Palm-Wine Drinkard by Amos Tutuola (1952)  

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (1958)

Efuru by Flora Nwapa (1966)

The Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta (1979)

Aké: The Years of Childhood by Wole Soyinka (1981)

Sozaboy: A Novel in Rotten English by Ken Saro-Wiwa (1985)

The Famished Road by Ben Okri (1991)

Senegal:

God’s Bits of Wood by Ousmane Sembène (1960)

So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ (1981)

Somalia:

Maps by Nuruddin Farah (1986)

South Africa:

When Rain Clouds Gather by Bessie Head (1969)

Fools and Other Stories by Njabulo S. Ndebele (1986)

Sudan:

Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih (1966)

Tunisia:

The Colonizer and the Colonized by Albert Memmi (1957)

Zimbabwe:

The House of Hunger by Dambudzo Marechera (1978)

Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga (1988)

Miscellaneous Africa:

The Granta Book of the African Short Story edited by Helon Habila (2011)

The Penguin Book of Modern African Poetry edited by Gerald Moore and Ulli Beier (1963)

AMERICAS:

Antigua and Barbuda:

A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid (1988)

Argentina:

Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges (1944)

Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar (1963)

The Museum of Eterna’s Novel (The First Good Novel) by Macedonio Fernández (1967)

Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig (1976)

The Sixty-Five Years of Washington by Juan José Saer (1985)

How I Became a Nun by César Aira (1993)

Thus Were Their Faces by Silvina Ocampo (2015 but written earlier)

Brazil:

Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis (1900)

Chronicle of the Murdered House by Lúcio Cardoso (1959)

Dona Flor and her Two Husbands by Jorge Amado (1966)

Pedagagy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire (1968)

The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector (1977)

Vast Emotions and Imperfect Thoughts by Rubem Fonseca (1988)

Chile:

The Obscene Bird of Night by José Donoso (1970)

Emergency Poems by Nicanor Parra (1972)

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende (1982)

Colombia:

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (1967)

Cuba:

The Kingdom of This World by Alejo Carpentier (1949)

Cold Tales by Virgilio Piñera (1958)

Dominican Republic:

In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez (1994)

Guatemala:

Men of Maize by Miguel Ángel Asturias (1949)

I, Rigoberta Menchú by Rigoberta Menchú (1985)

Guadalupe (part of France but overseas):

I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Condé (1986)

Haiti:

Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwige Danticat (1994)

Jamaica:

No Telephone to Heaven by Michelle Cliff (1987)

The True History of Paradise by Margaret Cezair-Thompson (1999)

Martinique (part of France but overseas):

Discourse on Colonialism by Aimé Césaire (1950)

Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon (1961)

Poetics of Relation by Édouard Glissant (1997)

Mexico:

Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo (1955)

Aura by Carlos Fuentes (1962)

The Hole by José Revueltas (1969)

Underground River and Other Stories by Inés Arredondo (1979)

The Collected Poems, 1957-1987 by Octavio Paz (1987)

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (1989)

Nicaragua:

Azul by Rubén Darío (1888)

Peru:

The Cardboard House by Martín Adán (1928)

The Time of the Hero by Mario Vargas Llosa (1962)

The Complete Poems by César Vallejo (1968)

St. Lucia:

Omeros by Derek Walcott (1990)

Trinidad and Tobago:

The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution by C.L.R. James (1938)

A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul (1961)

Uruguay:

Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano (1971)

Venezuela:

Doña Bárbara by Rómulo Gallegos (1929)

Indigenous Writers from Canada and the United States:

American Indian Stories by Zitkála-Šá (Dakota) (1921)

Winter in the Blood by James Welch (Blackfeet and A’aninin) (1974)

Emplumada by Lorna Dee Cervantes (Chumash) (1982)

She Had Some Horses by Joy Harjo (Mvskoke) (1982) 

Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich (Chippewa) (1984)

Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko (Laguna Pueblo) (1986)

Custer Died for Your Sins by Vine Deloria Jr. (Dakota) (1988)

The Grass Dancer by Susan Power (Dakota) (1997)

Miscellaneous Americas:

And We Sold the Rain: Contemporary Fiction from Central America edited by Rosario Santos (1988)

Short Stories by Latin American Women: The Magic and the Real edited by Celia Correas de Zapata (2003)

Bordering Fires: The Vintage Book of Contemporary Mexican and Chicana and Chicano Literature edited by Cristina García (2006)

#dark academia #light academia #academia aesthetic #academic #academia #academics #studyblr #litblr #reading #books #booklr #literature #world literature #poc literature #writers of color #bookworm #bookaddict

[uwmspeccoll]

Magnificent Women Monday

During Black History Month, we featured Bronzeville Boys and Girls written by legendary American poet Gwendolyn Brooks. One post was simply not enough to convey the range of Brooks’s work, so we’ve chosen to dedicate this #Magnificent Women Monday to her. 

Born in Chicago in 1917, Brooks rose to fame through the portrayals of ordinary life in her community and had published 75 poems in literary magazines by the age of 16. Among her long list of honors is her position as the first African American recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in 1950 for Annie Allen, and serving as Poet Laurate Consultant in Poetry for the Library of Congress from 1985 to 1986 and Poet Laurate of Illinois from 1968 until her death in 2000. Her poetry reflects an authentic, textured viewpoint of African American life. Toni Morrison crediting her with creating space for young Black writers and artists to exist in freely. 

Her activism in promoting African American literature led her to leave her influential publisher Harper and Row in 1970 for Dudley Randall’s Broadside Press, and she would continue to work mainly with African American publishers for the rest of her life. Part of the widespread interest in her work lies in her ability to bridge the gap between the academic poetry stylings of the 1940s and Black militant writings of the 1960s as described by George E. Kent in A Life of Gwendolyn Brooks, allowing a political consciousness to inform her writing without allowing it to become the lone message of her work. We hold 11 titles by Gwendolyn Brooks. Shown here in order are:

1.) Portrait of Gwendolyn Brooks by Roy Lewis from Riot, Broadside Press. 1970. 2-4.) Title page and poems from the first edition of A Street in Bronzeville, Brooks's first published collection, Harper & Brothers, 1945. 5.) Dust jacket designed by Shirley Smith from the first edition of The Bean Eaters, a collection of poems that follows the slow rhythm of an elderly couple’s daily life, published by Harper & Brothers in 1960. 6 & 7.) Cover and frontispiece from a painting by Jeff Donaldson from the second printing of Riot, Broadside Press, Detroit, 1970. 8 & 9.) Title page and poem from the first printing of Family Pictures, Broadside Press, 1971. 10.) Cover from the first printing of Aloneness, a children's picture book illustrated by Leroy Foster, Broadside Press, 1971.

View more Magnificent Women Monday posts.

--Emily, Special Collections Writing Intern

#Magnificent Women Monday #Gwendolyn Brooks #poetry #women poets #African American poets #African American women #Dudley Randall #Broadside Press #Roy Lewis #A Street in Bronzeville #The Bean Eaters #Shirley Smith #Jeff Donaldson #Riot #Family Pictures #Aloneness #Leroy Foster #Emily Birz

[watchoutforintellect]

Denise Levertov, from “The Third Dimension” featured in Collected Earlier Poems:1940-1960

#Denise Levertov #lit #poetry #the third dimension #collected earlier poems;1940-1960 #quotes #words

[justforbooks]

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet, artist, activist and founder of San Francisco’s famous City Lights Bookstore, who has died aged 101 of interstitial lung disease, was the least “beat” of the Beat Generation. In addition to a political commitment that blended anarchism and ecology – he loathed the motor car, calling it “the infernal combustion engine” – he had an instinctive business sense, founded on the philosophy of small is beautiful. City Lights, which he started in partnership with the magazine editor Peter Martin in the early 1950s, is still among the most welcoming of shops, with its tables and chairs, sheaves of magazines, and signs saying: “Pick a book, sit down, and read.”

Ferlinghetti discouraged interviewers and seekers of personal information. “If I had some biographical questionnaire to answer, I would always make something up,” he once said. Different reference books give different dates of birth, and one published story had it that he wrote his doctoral dissertation on the place of the pissoir in French literature. For many years, he listed his dog, Homer, as City Lights’ publicity and public relations officer. The poet recalled that Homer Ferlinghetti received regular mail, but that his public relations career stalled when he peed against a policeman’s leg. For this act of citizenship, he was immortalised by his master in the poem Dog.

Perhaps the facts made Ferlinghetti uncomfortable. He was born Lawrence Monsanto Ferling in Yonkers, New York, to a French mother, Albertine Mendes-Monsanto, and an Italian father, Carlo Ferlinghetti, an auctioneer, who had shortened the family name to Ferling. His parents were unable to care for him, however (sometimes Ferlinghetti said his father had died before his birth, sometimes after), and he was rescued by an aunt, Emily Monsanto. She took him to France, where they lived for his first six years. Returning to the US, Emily was employed as a governess by a family called Lawrence, a branch of the one that founded Sarah Lawrence College. “Then she left me there,” Ferlinghetti told an interviewer in 1978. “She just disappeared one day, and that family brought me up.”

His education was extensive. In the early 1940s, he attended the University of North Carolina, where a professor introduced him to the vernacular voice in poetry. This was a revelation: you didn’t have to sound like TS Eliot to write a poem. After wartime naval service had taken him back to Europe, Ferlinghetti enrolled at the Sorbonne, studying French literature while translating poets and novelists in his spare time. One day in a restaurant, he noticed that the paper tablecloth had a poem written on it, and that it was signed “Jacques Prévert”. He took the tablecloth with him as he left the restaurant, and some years later translated the poems in Prévert’s Paroles, eventually published, under the original title, by his own City Lights Books.

Back in New York again in 1946, Ferlinghetti went to Columbia University, preparing a thesis on Ruskin and Turner. He just missed meeting Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, who by then had either been banned from (Ginsberg) or had dropped out of (Kerouac) the university. Ferlinghetti did not team up with the Beats until eight years later, in San Francisco.

Drawn to Paris once more at the end of the 1940s, he met George Whitman, proprietor of the English-language bookshop opposite Notre Dame, which was first known as Le Mistral and is now Shakespeare and Company. Ferlinghetti looked to Whitman as an example when he opened City Lights Bookstore in 1953. It was the first all-paperback bookshop in the US, and, as Ferlinghetti said, “Once we opened, we just couldn’t get the doors closed.” He ran the place more in the spirit of public service than for profit, and by the 70s was content to live on his book royalties and plough the takings at the counter back into the shop.

Two years after starting City Lights, Ferlinghetti published his own collection of poems, Pictures of the Gone World, as No 1 in the Pocket Poets series, little four by five-inch, black-and-white paperbacks, which continue to appear today – one of the most popular literary lists of modern times. It was at this stage that he reverted to the original family name, Ferlinghetti. The next two Pocket Poets after Ferlinghetti were Kenneth Rexroth and Kenneth Patchen – as a result, both were drafted as “fathers of the Beat Generation”, somewhat to their displeasure – but it was the fourth in the series that ensured the list’s success. And for that, as Ferlinghetti was quick to point out, they had to thank the San Francisco police department.

The book was Howl and Other Poems, by Allen Ginsberg. Ferlinghetti had heard Ginsberg read the title poem at an event at the Six Gallery, San Francisco, in October 1955. On returning home, he sent the poet a message that consciously echoed the famous letter from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Walt Whitman after Emerson had read Whitman’s Leaves of Grass: “I greet you at the beginning of a great career.” The proprietor of City Lights added: “When do I get the manuscript?”

The book was published the following year, in an edition of 1,000 copies. However, after a failed attempt by the police to prosecute the bookseller for peddling obscene material, the reprints could not come fast enough. Ferlinghetti joked that the police “took over the advertising account and did a much better job”. Howl remains the bedrock of City Lights’ success as a publishing concern. It has now gone through well over 50 reprints, often more than one a year.

Ferlinghetti’s own poetry is irreverent, cajoling, casual and loose-limbed, sometimes excessively so. His models were Whitman and William Carlos Williams. In partnership with Rexroth, he took part in many poetry and jazz events on the West Coast, and the two made a record together. Ferlinghetti later became disillusioned with the poetry and jazz combination – “The poet ended up sounding like he was hawking fish from a street corner,” he said.

His verse on the page, though, suggests a spoken origin, as in his poem Underwear:

Underwear controls everything in the end Take foundation garments for instance They are really fascist forms of underground government ….

In addition to his many collections of verse, including A Coney Island of the Mind (1958), The Secret Meaning of Things (1969) and Endless Life (1981), Ferlinghetti wrote two novels: Love in the Days of Rage (1988), which is set during the student revolt of 1968 in Paris, and Her (1960), a more experimental work, a classic “poet’s novel”.

On one of his transatlantic voyages, Ferlinghetti met Selden Kirby-Smith (known as Kirby), whom he had had a passing acquaintance with at Columbia. They married in 1951 and had two children, Julie and Lorenzo, but were divorced in 1976.

In 1971, Nancy Peters, a former librarian at the Library of Congress, joined the company, and as time went on played a larger part in running the business, leaving Ferlinghetti to his creative work. She served as executive director from 1984 until 2007, and then continued to be involved as a co-owner of the business.

Ferlinghetti also had a serious interest in painting, and in 1990 the University of California mounted a retrospective. Many poems feature the names of painters, or employ a self-consciously “painterly” style, such as Short Story in a Painting of Gustav Klimt or Returning to Paris with Pissarro.

Ferlinghetti disliked being associated with the Beats, though he benefited from it, and, despite his love of Ginsberg, was apt to lament the commercialisation of the Beat Generation. Ginsberg, he said, “fabricated the whole thing out of his imagination”. But, happily contradicting himself, he could add, as late as 1996, “It’s still the only rebellion around.”

A collection of the correspondence between Ferlinghetti and Ginsberg was published in 2015, under the title I Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Career. At the same time, a selection of his travel journals appeared, Writing Across Landscapes.

Ferlinghetti expressed disappointment in other Beat writers for their unstructured approach to politics. He decided to travel to Cuba to see the Castro regime for himself and later wrote One Thousand Words for Fidel Castro, which ends, “Fidel … I give you my sprig of laurel.” Another political poem evoked a surrealistic scene by Goya, showing “freeways 50 lanes wide”, with “fewer tumbrils / but more maimed citizens / in painted cars”. In 2012 he declined to accept an award from the Hungarian Pen club, in protest at the policies of prime minister Viktor Orbán.

City Lights, open till midnight seven days a week, was Ferlinghetti’s way of infusing the spirit of resistance peacefully into the streets of San Francisco.

With Peters, he wrote a Literary Guide to San Francisco (1980), and in 1988 was responsible for the renaming of 10 streets after writers associated with the city, including Jack Kerouac Alley, partly composed of City Lights’ back wall. In 1994, he himself was similarly honoured by Via Ferlinghetti, the first time a street has been named after a living writer in the history of the city.

He is survived by his children and three grandchildren.

• Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti, poet, artist and bookseller, born 24 March 1919; died 22 February 2021

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2021 Reading and Watching Resolutions

2020 is dead! It’s a new year, and with it come a new set of reading and watching resolutions. A few small tweaks, but these are mostly the same lists as last time. If you see any categories that you have recommendations for, feel free to drop me a line.

2021 Reading Resolution

A book written in North America: Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson

A book written in Central America/Caribbean: Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid  

A book written in South America: Full Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Moon: Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda by Pablo Neruda, translated by Stephen Mitchell

A book written in East Asia: I Am a Hero: Omnibus Volume 1 by Kengo Hanazawa

A book written in South Asia: A Burning by Megha Majumdar

A book written in Africa: Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi

A book written in the Middle East: Death is Hard Work by Khaled Khalifa

A book written in Australia/Pacific Islands: Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

A book written in Russia: The Blizzard by Vladimir Sorokin

A book written in Europe: White Is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi

A biography: Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin

A non-fiction book: Forgiveness: A Gift from My Grandparents by Mark Sakamoto

A collection of short stories: A Short History of Indians in Canada by Thomas King

A collection of poetry: Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong

A play: The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

A book you’ve seen adapted: Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters

A graphic novel: Die Vol 2: Split the Party by Kieron Gillen, illustrated by Stephanie Hans

A children’s book: Valley of the Moon: The Diary of María Rosalía de Milagros by Sherry Garland

A book older than 100 years: The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers

A debut novel: I Am Not a Serial Killer by Dan Wells

A novel by a famous author, other than the one(s) they are best known for: Pericles by William Shakespeare

A sequel: The Sugared Game (The Will Darling Adventures #2) by KJ Charles

A book by an author you’ve never given a fair shot: Along Came A Spider by James Patterson

A book you’ve heard bad things about: The Host by Stephenie Meyer

A book released in 2021: Subtle Blood (The Will Darling Adventures #3) by KJ Charles

Wild Card: Slippery Creatures (The Will Darling Adventures #1) by KJ Charles

Wild Card: Universal Harvester by John Darnielle

Wild Card: Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Comic Book by Leighton Gray and Vernon Shaw

Wild Card: Ring by Koji Suzuki

Wild Card: The Degenerates by J. Albert Mann

Bonus Reading:

A Disability History of the United States by Kim E. Nielsen

The Subsidiary by Matías Celedón 

I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive by Steve Earle 

Venomous: How Earth's Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry by Christie Wilcox

Binti by Nnedi Okorafor  

The Burning Girls by C.J. Tudor

List Progress: 36/30

2021 Film Watching Resolution

A foreign film: Beware of Children (Barn) (2019)

A black and white film: M (1931)

A silent or dialogue-free film: Modern Times (1936)

An animated film: Fantastic Planet (1973)

A film based on a true story: Radium Girls (2018)

A documentary: Heroin(e) (2017)

A film based on a book: In the Tall Grass (2019)

An Oscar-winning movie: Rebecca (1940)

A trashy movie: Equilibrium (2002)

Your best friend’s recommendation: Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

A children’s film: The Secret World of Arrietty (2010)

A film released in 2021: The Woman in the Window (2021)

List Progress: 12/12

Movies Outside the List:

Booksmart (2019)

All-In Madonna (2020)

Shiva Baby (2020)

Vera Drake (2004)

Ma (2019)

The Exorcist (1973)

The Omen (1976)

The Ring (2002)

Downton Abbey (2019)

The Clovehitch Killer (2018)

The Dance of the 41 (El baile de los 41) (2020)

Saint Maud (2019)

Unfriended (2014)

Psycho (1960)

Tampopo (1985)

Dear Evan Hansen (2021)

tick, tick...BOOM! (2021)

The Greatest Showman (2017)

The Night of the Hunter (1955)

I Think We’re Alone Now (2018)

Pride (2014)

10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)

#straydog's reading resolution #straydog's watching resolution #new year let's party!

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Maurice Sarfaty: National Novel Writing Month

This #NaNoWriMo we are spotlighting Maurice Sarfaty, self-published author and prolific writer of fantasy, horror, and gothic stories.  Featured here are the first page of his final manuscript of “Tania,” as well as a cover sketch for a collection of his short stories. Sarfaty’s writng wasn’t limited to fiction, as he also wrote more than two-hundred opinion pieces that were published in the Milwaukee Journal, Milwaukee Sentinel, and Chicago Tribune.

All of the photos and manuscript drafts featured here and more can be found in the Maurice Sarfaty Papers, UWM Mss 198, Boxes 1 and 8 at the UWM Archives. Through his journals and manuscripts one can get an idea of his inspiration and process.

Maurice Sarfaty was born in Greece in 1940. His family immigrated to the United States in 1951 and eventually settled in Milwaukee’s north side. Maurice graduated from Washington High School in 1960 and wrote his first stories and poems in 1964.

-Lizzie, Archives Graduate Intern

#NaNoWriMo #UWM Archives #Maurice Sarfaty #Milwaukee #local author #Lizzie #National Novel Writing Month #Horror #Fiction Writer #Fantasy #writers #archives

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Kirk Douglas as Actor and Producer by Susan King

Though 102-year-old Kirk Douglas earned Best Actor nominations for 1949’s CHAMPION, 1952’s THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL and 1956’s LUST FOR LIFE, it is his performance as the brave slave who leads a revolt against the Roman Empire in 1960’s SPARTACUS that has become his career-defining role. And little wonder.

Not only is he chiseled to the max, Michael Douglas’ dad is brave, fierce and intensely romantic in the classic epic that won four Academy Awards, including supporting actor for Peter Ustinov and for Russell Metty’s cinematography. Serving as also executive producer, SPARTACUS marked Kirk Douglas’ second collaboration with director Stanley Kubrick. The two had previously worked together on the gut-wrenching 1957 anti-war film PATHS OF GLORY.

Douglas, whom I have interviewed eight times between 1986-2017, told me in a 2011 L.A. Times chat that Universal had originally hired Anthony Mann to direct the epic. The acclaimed Mann had cut his directing teeth in low-budget but atmospheric films noir in the 1940s and worked with Jimmy Stewart in the 1950s in a series of gritty Westerns, including 1953’s THE NAKED SPUR.

“I never wanted Anthony Mann,” he said. “The studio wanted him because he had made so many successful pictures.”

Douglas noted that Mann was “intimidated” by the all-star cast including Ustinov, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons and Tony Curtis. “Ustinov captivated him,” he explained. “He saw Ustinov as a genius, so he let him do whatever he wanted. After three weeks, the studio said ‘Kirk, you were right. You have to fire him.’’’ Mann, said Douglas, wasn’t upset at the firing. In fact, the two worked together on 1965’s THE HEROES OF TELEMARK.

Enter Kubrick, who had just been fired by Marlon Brando from the Western ONE-EYED JACKS (’61). Brando took over the directing reigns on that film.

“I sent the [SPARTACUS] script to Stanley over the weekend, and on Monday he was at the studio ready to direct,’’ said Douglas. “I remember when I introduced him to the cast, he looked like he was 14, like a little kid. I said, ‘This is your new director.’ They thought I was joking. Kubrick wasn’t intimidated. He did a great job.”

Blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo wrote the screenplay for SPARTACUS, as well as the script for producer/director Otto Preminger’s historical 1960 epic EXODUS thus helping to break the blacklist that still gripped Hollywood. Both Douglas and Preminger had insisted the scribe receive screen credit.

“The studios were intimidated; they embraced the blacklist,” explained Douglas. “When I was thinking of breaking the blacklist, people were saying ‘Kirk, jeez, you will never work again.’ But I think I was at the right age. If I would have been older, I might have been too conservative. So, I just said, ‘The hell with it.’ I left messages at the gate of the studio that Dalton Trumbo will come on the set.”

Douglas frequently went to Trumbo’s house to work on the script in the evenings. “He would be in the bathtub. He had a tray in his bathtub. He wrote most of the time there. He wanted a parrot. I bought him a parrot and sometimes the parrot would be on his shoulder.”

The Summer Under the Stars tribute to Douglas kicks off with his first feature, 1946’s film noir THE STRANGE LOVE OF MARTHA IVERS, directed by Lewis Milestone and also starring Barbara Stanwyck and Van Heflin. Also airing are Vincente Minnelli’s THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL (‘52) and LUST FOR LIFE (‘56), Joseph Mankiewicz’s underrated 1970 Western THERE WAS A CROOKED MAN and two of my favorite Douglas flicks: 1950’s YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN and 1957’s GUNFIGHT AT THE O.K. CORRAL, one of the several films he made with his friend Burt Lancaster.

I found Douglas a changed man after suffering a major stroke in 1996—shortly before receiving an honorary Oscar—that left him with a pronounced speech impediment. He was very much the movie star and quite imposing when I first talked to him in 1986. But the four times I’ve talked to him since the stroke, Douglas couldn’t have been more funny or sweet.

“When I had my stroke, I saw things in a different way,” said Douglas in a 2009 interview at the Beverly Hills house he shares with his wife of 65 years, Anne.

“Everybody has to sometime in life take inventory. I think the final thing I had to discover about my life is you have to pay back. I came from abject poverty. I didn’t dream of being a millionaire. So, you have to pay back. Fortunately, my wife shares that view.”

They sold a lot of their art collection to fund everything from the Kirk Douglas High School in Northridge, CA, the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City, CA and over 400 playgrounds.

Because of his macho image, Douglas said he “hid’ his poetic side. But in 2014, he published a book of his poems, Life Could Be Verse. “When you get to be 98, you begin to brave,” he explained to me. “You get strong enough to be weak.”

#Kirk Douglas #Summer Under the Stars #Stanley Kubrick #Dalton Trumbo #TCM #Turner Classic Movies #Susan King

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Charles Mingus

Charles Mingus Jr. (April 22, 1922 – January 5, 1979) was an American jazz double bassist, pianist, composer and bandleader. A major proponent of collective improvisation, he is considered to be one of the greatest jazz musicians and composers in history, with a career spanning three decades and collaborations with other jazz legends such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Dannie Richmond, and Herbie Hancock.

Mingus' compositions continue to be played by contemporary musicians ranging from the repertory bands Mingus Big Band, Mingus Dynasty, and Mingus Orchestra, to the high school students who play the charts and compete in the Charles Mingus High School Competition. In 1993, the Library of Congress acquired Mingus's collected papers—including scores, sound recordings, correspondence and photos—in what they described as "the most important acquisition of a manuscript collection relating to jazz in the Library's history".

Biography

Early life and career

Charles Mingus was born in Nogales, Arizona. His father, Charles Mingus Sr., was a sergeant in the U.S. Army. Mingus was largely raised in the Watts area of Los Angeles. His maternal grandfather was a Chinese British subject from Hong Kong, and his maternal grandmother was an African-American from the southern United States. Mingus was the third great-grandson of the family's founding patriarch who was, by most accounts, a German immigrant. His ancestors included German American, African American, and Native American.

In Mingus's autobiography Beneath the Underdog his mother was described as "the daughter of an English/Chinese man and a South-American woman", and his father was the son "of a black farm worker and a Swedish woman". Charles Mingus Sr. claims to have been raised by his mother and her husband as a white person until he was fourteen, when his mother revealed to her family that the child's true father was a black slave, after which he had to run away from his family and live on his own. The autobiography doesn't confirm whether Charles Mingus Sr. or Mingus himself believed this story was true, or whether it was merely an embellished version of the Mingus family's lineage.

His mother allowed only church-related music in their home, but Mingus developed an early love for other music, especially Duke Ellington. He studied trombone, and later cello, although he was unable to follow the cello professionally because, at the time, it was nearly impossible for a black musician to make a career of classical music, and the cello was not yet accepted as a jazz instrument. Despite this, Mingus was still attached to the cello; as he studied bass with Red Callender in the late 1930s, Callender even commented that the cello was still Mingus's main instrument. In Beneath the Underdog, Mingus states that he did not actually start learning bass until Buddy Collette accepted him into his swing band under the stipulation that he be the band's bass player.

Due to a poor education, the young Mingus could not read musical notation quickly enough to join the local youth orchestra. This had a serious impact on his early musical experiences, leaving him feeling ostracized from the classical music world. These early experiences, in addition to his lifelong confrontations with racism, were reflected in his music, which often focused on themes of racism, discrimination and (in)justice.

Much of the cello technique he learned was applicable to double bass when he took up the instrument in high school. He studied for five years with Herman Reinshagen, principal bassist of the New York Philharmonic, and compositional techniques with Lloyd Reese. Throughout much of his career, he played a bass made in 1927 by the German maker Ernst Heinrich Roth.

Beginning in his teen years, Mingus was writing quite advanced pieces; many are similar to Third Stream because they incorporate elements of classical music. A number of them were recorded in 1960 with conductor Gunther Schuller, and released as Pre-Bird, referring to Charlie "Bird" Parker; Mingus was one of many musicians whose perspectives on music were altered by Parker into "pre- and post-Bird" eras.

Mingus gained a reputation as a bass prodigy. His first major professional job was playing with former Ellington clarinetist Barney Bigard. He toured with Louis Armstrong in 1943, and by early 1945 was recording in Los Angeles in a band led by Russell Jacquet, which also included Teddy Edwards, Maurice Simon, Bill Davis, and Chico Hamilton, and in May that year, in Hollywood, again with Teddy Edwards, in a band led by Howard McGhee.

He then played with Lionel Hampton's band in the late 1940s; Hampton performed and recorded several of Mingus's pieces. A popular trio of Mingus, Red Norvo and Tal Farlow in 1950 and 1951 received considerable acclaim, but Mingus's race caused problems with club owners and he left the group. Mingus was briefly a member of Ellington's band in 1953, as a substitute for bassist Wendell Marshall. Mingus's notorious temper led to his being one of the few musicians personally fired by Ellington (Bubber Miley and drummer Bobby Durham are among the others), after a back-stage fight between Mingus and Juan Tizol.

Also in the early 1950s, before attaining commercial recognition as a bandleader, Mingus played gigs with Charlie Parker, whose compositions and improvisations greatly inspired and influenced him. Mingus considered Parker the greatest genius and innovator in jazz history, but he had a love-hate relationship with Parker's legacy. Mingus blamed the Parker mythology for a derivative crop of pretenders to Parker's throne. He was also conflicted and sometimes disgusted by Parker's self-destructive habits and the romanticized lure of drug addiction they offered to other jazz musicians. In response to the many sax players who imitated Parker, Mingus titled a song, "If Charlie Parker were a Gunslinger, There'd be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats" (released on Mingus Dynasty as "Gunslinging Bird").

Mingus was married four times. His wives were Jeanne Gross, Lucille (Celia) Germanis, Judy Starkey, and Susan Graham Ungaro.

Based in New York

In 1961, Mingus spent time staying at the house of his mother's sister (Louise) and her husband, Fess Williams in Jamaica, Queens. Subsequently, Mingus invited Williams to play at the 1962 Town Hall Concert.

In 1952 Mingus co-founded Debut Records with Max Roach so he could conduct his recording career as he saw fit. The name originated from his desire to document unrecorded young musicians. Despite this, the best-known recording the company issued was of the most prominent figures in bebop. On May 15, 1953, Mingus joined Dizzy Gillespie, Parker, Bud Powell, and Roach for a concert at Massey Hall in Toronto, which is the last recorded documentation of Gillespie and Parker playing together. After the event, Mingus chose to overdub his barely audible bass part back in New York; the original version was issued later. The two 10" albums of the Massey Hall concert (one featured the trio of Powell, Mingus and Roach) were among Debut Records' earliest releases. Mingus may have objected to the way the major record companies treated musicians, but Gillespie once commented that he did not receive any royalties "for years and years" for his Massey Hall appearance. The records, however, are often regarded as among the finest live jazz recordings.

One story has it that Mingus was involved in a notorious incident while playing a 1955 club date billed as a "reunion" with Parker, Powell, and Roach. Powell, who suffered from alcoholism and mental illness (possibly exacerbated by a severe police beating and electroshock treatments), had to be helped from the stage, unable to play or speak coherently. As Powell's incapacitation became apparent, Parker stood in one spot at a microphone, chanting "Bud Powell...Bud Powell..." as if beseeching Powell's return. Allegedly, Parker continued this incantation for several minutes after Powell's departure, to his own amusement and Mingus's exasperation. Mingus took another microphone and announced to the crowd, "Ladies and Gentlemen, please don't associate me with any of this. This is not jazz. These are sick people." This was Parker's last public performance; about a week later he died after years of substance abuse.

Mingus often worked with a mid-sized ensemble (around 8–10 members) of rotating musicians known as the Jazz Workshop. Mingus broke new ground, constantly demanding that his musicians be able to explore and develop their perceptions on the spot. Those who joined the Workshop (or Sweatshops as they were colorfully dubbed by the musicians) included Pepper Adams, Jaki Byard, Booker Ervin, John Handy, Jimmy Knepper, Charles McPherson and Horace Parlan. Mingus shaped these musicians into a cohesive improvisational machine that in many ways anticipated free jazz. Some musicians dubbed the workshop a "university" for jazz.

Pithecanthropus Erectus

and other recordings

The decade that followed is generally regarded as Mingus's most productive and fertile period. Over a ten-year period, he made 30 records for a number of labels (Atlantic, Candid, Columbia, Impulse and others), a pace perhaps unmatched by any other musicians except Ellington.

Mingus had already recorded around ten albums as a bandleader, but 1956 was a breakthrough year for him, with the release of Pithecanthropus Erectus, arguably his first major work as both a bandleader and composer. Like Ellington, Mingus wrote songs with specific musicians in mind, and his band for Erectus included adventurous musicians: piano player Mal Waldron, alto saxophonist Jackie McLean and the Sonny Rollins-influenced tenor of J. R. Monterose. The title song is a ten-minute tone poem, depicting the rise of man from his hominid roots (Pithecanthropus erectus) to an eventual downfall. A section of the piece was free improvisation, free of structure or theme.

Another album from this period, The Clown (1957 also on Atlantic Records), the title track of which features narration by humorist Jean Shepherd, was the first to feature drummer Dannie Richmond, who remained his preferred drummer until Mingus's death in 1979. The two men formed one of the most impressive and versatile rhythm sections in jazz. Both were accomplished performers seeking to stretch the boundaries of their music while staying true to its roots. When joined by pianist Jaki Byard, they were dubbed "The Almighty Three".

Mingus Ah Um

and other works

In 1959 Mingus and his jazz workshop musicians recorded one of his best-known albums, Mingus Ah Um. Even in a year of standout masterpieces, including Dave Brubeck's Time Out, Miles Davis's Kind of Blue, John Coltrane's Giant Steps, and Ornette Coleman's prophetic The Shape of Jazz to Come, this was a major achievement, featuring such classic Mingus compositions as "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" (an elegy to Lester Young) and the vocal-less version of "Fables of Faubus" (a protest against segregationist Arkansas governor Orval Faubus that features double-time sections). Also during 1959, Mingus recorded the album Blues & Roots, which was released the following year. As Mingus explained in his liner notes: "I was born swinging and clapped my hands in church as a little boy, but I've grown up and I like to do things other than just swing. But blues can do more than just swing."

Mingus witnessed Ornette Coleman's legendary—and controversial—1960 appearances at New York City's Five Spot jazz club. He initially expressed rather mixed feelings for Coleman's innovative music: "...if the free-form guys could play the same tune twice, then I would say they were playing something...Most of the time they use their fingers on the saxophone and they don't even know what's going to come out. They're experimenting." That same year, however, Mingus formed a quartet with Richmond, trumpeter Ted Curson and multi-instrumentalist Eric Dolphy. This ensemble featured the same instruments as Coleman's quartet, and is often regarded as Mingus rising to the challenging new standard established by Coleman. The quartet recorded on both Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus and Mingus. The former also features the version of "Fables of Faubus" with lyrics, aptly titled "Original Faubus Fables".

Only one misstep occurred in this era: The Town Hall Concert in October 1962, a "live workshop"/recording session. With an ambitious program, the event was plagued with troubles from its inception. Mingus's vision, now known as Epitaph, was finally realized by conductor Gunther Schuller in a concert in 1989, a decade after Mingus died.

The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady

and other Impulse! albums

In 1963, Mingus released The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady, described as "one of the greatest achievements in orchestration by any composer in jazz history." The album was also unique in that Mingus asked his psychotherapist, Dr. Edmund Pollock, to provide notes for the record.

Mingus also released Mingus Plays Piano, an unaccompanied album featuring some fully improvised pieces, in 1963.

In addition, 1963 saw the release of Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus, an album praised by critic Nat Hentoff.

In 1964 Mingus put together one of his best-known groups, a sextet including Dannie Richmond, Jaki Byard, Eric Dolphy, trumpeter Johnny Coles, and tenor saxophonist Clifford Jordan. The group was recorded frequently during its short existence; Coles fell ill and left during a European tour. Dolphy stayed in Europe after the tour ended, and died suddenly in Berlin on June 28, 1964. 1964 was also the year that Mingus met his future wife, Sue Graham Ungaro. The couple were married in 1966 by Allen Ginsberg. Facing financial hardship, Mingus was evicted from his New York home in 1966.

Changes

Mingus's pace slowed somewhat in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In 1974, after his 1970 sextet with Charles McPherson, Eddie Preston and Bobby Jones disbanded, he formed a quintet with Richmond, pianist Don Pullen, trumpeter Jack Walrath and saxophonist George Adams. They recorded two well-received albums, Changes One and Changes Two. Mingus also played with Charles McPherson in many of his groups during this time. Cumbia and Jazz Fusion in 1976 sought to blend Colombian music (the "Cumbia" of the title) with more traditional jazz forms. In 1971, Mingus taught for a semester at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York as the Slee Professor of Music.

Later career and death

By the mid-1970s, Mingus was suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). His once formidable bass technique declined until he could no longer play the instrument. He continued composing, however, and supervised a number of recordings before his death. At the time of his death, he was working with Joni Mitchell on an album eventually titled Mingus, which included lyrics added by Mitchell to his compositions, including "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat". The album featured the talents of Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, and another influential bassist and composer, Jaco Pastorius.

Mingus died, aged 56, in Cuernavaca, Mexico, where he had traveled for treatment and convalescence. His ashes were scattered in the Ganges River.

Musical style

His compositions retained the hot and soulful feel of hard bop, drawing heavily from black gospel music and blues, while sometimes containing elements of Third Stream, free jazz, and classical music. He once cited Duke Ellington and church as his main influences.

Mingus espoused collective improvisation, similar to the old New Orleans jazz parades, paying particular attention to how each band member interacted with the group as a whole. In creating his bands, he looked not only at the skills of the available musicians, but also their personalities. Many musicians passed through his bands and later went on to impressive careers. He recruited talented and sometimes little-known artists, whom he utilized to assemble unconventional instrumental configurations. As a performer, Mingus was a pioneer in double bass technique, widely recognized as one of the instrument's most proficient players.

Because of his brilliant writing for midsize ensembles, and his catering to and emphasizing the strengths of the musicians in his groups, Mingus is often considered the heir of Duke Ellington, for whom he expressed great admiration and collaborated on the record Money Jungle. Indeed, Dizzy Gillespie had once claimed Mingus reminded him "of a young Duke", citing their shared "organizational genius."

Personality and temper

Nearly as well known as his ambitious music was Mingus's often fearsome temperament, which earned him the nickname "The Angry Man of Jazz". His refusal to compromise his musical integrity led to many onstage eruptions, exhortations to musicians, and dismissals. Although respected for his musical talents, Mingus was sometimes feared for his occasionally violent onstage temper, which was at times directed at members of his band and other times aimed at the audience. He was physically large, prone to obesity (especially in his later years), and was by all accounts often intimidating and frightening when expressing anger or displeasure. When confronted with a nightclub audience talking and clinking ice in their glasses while he performed, Mingus stopped his band and loudly chastised the audience, stating: "Isaac Stern doesn't have to put up with this shit." Mingus reportedly destroyed a $20,000 bass in response to audience heckling at the Five Spot in New York City.

Guitarist and singer Jackie Paris was a first-hand witness to Mingus's irascibility. Paris recalls his time in the Jazz Workshop: "He chased everybody off the stand except [drummer] Paul Motian and me... The three of us just wailed on the blues for about an hour and a half before he called the other cats back."

On October 12, 1962, Mingus punched Jimmy Knepper in the mouth while the two men were working together at Mingus' apartment on a score for his upcoming concert at The Town Hall in New York, and Knepper refused to take on more work. Mingus' blow broke off a crowned tooth and its underlying stub. According to Knepper, this ruined his embouchure and resulted in the permanent loss of the top octave of his range on the trombone – a significant handicap for any professional trombonist. This attack temporarily ended their working relationship, and Knepper was unable to perform at the concert. Charged with assault, Mingus appeared in court in January 1963 and was given a suspended sentence. Knepper did again work with Mingus in 1977 and played extensively with the Mingus Dynasty, formed after Mingus' death in 1979.

In addition to bouts of ill temper, Mingus was prone to clinical depression and tended to have brief periods of extreme creative activity intermixed with fairly long stretches of greatly decreased output, such as the five-year period following the death of Eric Dolphy.

In 1966, Mingus was evicted from his apartment at 5 Great Jones Street in New York City for nonpayment of rent, captured in the 1968 documentary film Mingus: Charlie Mingus 1968, directed by Thomas Reichman. The film also features Mingus performing in clubs and in the apartment, firing a .410 shotgun indoors, composing at the piano, playing with and taking care of his young daughter Caroline, and discussing love, art, politics, and the music school he had hoped to create.

Legacy

The Mingus Big Band

Charles Mingus' music is currently being performed and reinterpreted by the Mingus Big Band, which in October 2008 began playing every Monday at Jazz Standard in New York City, and often tours the rest of the U.S. and Europe. The Mingus Big Band, the Mingus Orchestra, and the Mingus Dynasty band are managed by Jazz Workshop, Inc. and run by Mingus' widow Sue Graham Mingus.

Elvis Costello has written lyrics for a few Mingus pieces. He had once sung lyrics for one piece, "Invisible Lady", backed by the Mingus Big Band on the album, Tonight at Noon: Three of Four Shades of Love.

Epitaph

Epitaph is considered one of Charles Mingus' masterpieces. The composition is 4,235 measures long, requires two hours to perform, and is one of the longest jazz pieces ever written. Epitaph was only completely discovered, by musicologist Andrew Homzy, during the cataloging process after Mingus' death. With the help of a grant from the Ford Foundation, the score and instrumental parts were copied, and the piece itself was premiered by a 30-piece orchestra, conducted by Gunther Schuller. This concert was produced by Mingus' widow, Sue Graham Mingus, at Alice Tully Hall on June 3, 1989, 10 years after Mingus' death. It was performed again at several concerts in 2007. The performance at Walt Disney Concert Hall is available on NPR. Hal Leonard published the complete score in 2008.

Autobiography

Mingus wrote the sprawling, exaggerated, quasi-autobiography, Beneath the Underdog: His World as Composed by Mingus, throughout the 1960s, and it was published in 1971. Its "stream of consciousness" style covered several aspects of his life that had previously been off-record. In addition to his musical and intellectual proliferation, Mingus goes into great detail about his perhaps overstated sexual exploits. He claims to have had more than 31 affairs in the course of his life (including 26 prostitutes in one sitting). This does not include any of his five wives (he claims to have been married to two of them simultaneously). In addition, he asserts that he held a brief career as a pimp. This has never been confirmed.

Mingus's autobiography also serves as an insight into his psyche, as well as his attitudes about race and society. It includes accounts of abuse at the hands of his father from an early age, being bullied as a child, his removal from a white musician's union, and grappling with disapproval while married to white women and other examples of the hardship and prejudice.

Scholarly influence

The work of Charles Mingus has also received attention in academia. According to Ashon Crawley, the musicianship of Charles Mingus provides a salient example of the power of music to unsettle the dualistic, categorical distinction of sacred from profane through otherwise epistemologies. Crawley offers a reading of Mingus that examines the deep, imbrication uniting Holiness-Pentecostal aesthetic practices and jazz. Mingus recognized the importance and impact of the midweek gathering of black folks at the Holiness-Pentecostal Church at 79th and Watts in Los Angeles that he'd attend with his stepmother or his friend Britt Woodman. Crawley goes on to argue that these visits were the impetus for the song "Wednesday Prayer Meeting." Emphasis is placed on the ethical demand of the prayer meeting felt and experienced that, according to Crawley, Mingus attempts to capture. In many ways, "Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting" was Mingus's memorial, homage, to black sociality. By exploring Mingus' homage to black Pentecostal aesthetics, Crawley expounds on how Mingus figured out that those Holiness-Pentecostal gatherings were the constant repetition of the ongoing, deep, intense mode of study, a kind of study wherein the aesthetic forms created could not be severed from the intellectual practice because they were one and also, but not, the same." Gunther Schuller has suggested that Mingus should be ranked among the most important American composers, jazz or otherwise. In 1988, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts made possible the cataloging of Mingus compositions, which were then donated to the Music Division of the New York Public Library for public use. In 1993, The Library of Congress acquired Mingus's collected papers—including scores, sound recordings, correspondence and photos—in what they described as "the most important acquisition of a manuscript collection relating to jazz in the Library's history".

Cover versions

Considering the number of compositions that Charles Mingus wrote, his works have not been recorded as often as comparable jazz composers. The only Mingus tribute albums recorded during his lifetime were baritone saxophonist Pepper Adams's album, Pepper Adams Plays the Compositions of Charlie Mingus, in 1963, and Joni Mitchell's album Mingus, in 1979. Of all his works, his elegant elegy for Lester Young, "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" (from Mingus Ah Um) has probably had the most recordings. Besides recordings from the expected jazz artists, the song has also been recorded by musicians as disparate as Jeff Beck, Andy Summers, Eugene Chadbourne, and Bert Jansch and John Renbourn with and without Pentangle. Joni Mitchell sang a version with lyrics that she wrote for it.

Elvis Costello has recorded "Hora Decubitus" (from Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus) on My Flame Burns Blue(2006). "Better Git It in Your Soul" was covered by Davey Graham on his album "Folk, Blues, and Beyond." Trumpeter Ron Miles performs a version of "Pithecanthropus Erectus" on his CD "Witness." New York Ska Jazz Ensemble has done a cover of Mingus's "Haitian Fight Song", as have the British folk rock group Pentangle and others. Hal Willner's 1992 tribute album Weird Nightmare: Meditations on Mingus (Columbia Records) contains idiosyncratic renditions of Mingus's works involving numerous popular musicians including Chuck D, Keith Richards, Henry Rollins and Dr. John. The Italian band Quintorigo recorded an entire album devoted to Mingus's music, titled Play Mingus.

Gunther Schuller's edition of Mingus's "Epitaph" which premiered at Lincoln Center in 1989 was subsequently released on Columbia/Sony Records.

One of the most elaborate tributes to Mingus came on September 29, 1969, at a festival honoring him. Duke Ellington performed The Clown, with Duke reading Jean Shepherd's narration. It was long believed that no recording of this performance existed; however, one was discovered and premiered on July 11, 2013, by Dry River Jazz host Trevor Hodgkins for NPR member station KRWG-FM with re-airings on July 13, 2013, and July 26, 2014. Mingus's elegy for Duke, "Duke Ellington's Sound Of Love", was recorded by Kevin Mahogany on Double Rainbow (1993) and Anita Wardell on Why Do You Cry? (1995).

Material loss

On June 25, 2019, The New York Times Magazine listed Charles Mingus among hundreds of artists whose material was reportedly destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire.

Awards and honors

1971: Guggenheim Fellowship (Music Composition).

1971: Inducted in the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame.

1988: The National Endowment for the Arts provided grants for a Mingus nonprofit called "Let My Children Hear Music" which cataloged all of Mingus's works. The microfilms of these works were given to the Music Division of the New York Public Library where they are currently available for study.

1993: The Library of Congress acquired Mingus's collected papers—including scores, sound recordings, correspondence and photos—in what they described as "the most important acquisition of a manuscript collection relating to jazz in the Library's history".

1995: The United States Postal Service issued a stamp in his honor.

1997: Posthumously awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

1999: Album Mingus Dynasty (1959) inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame.

2005: Inducted in the Jazz at Lincoln Center, Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame.

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[thenewgothictwice]

The red eyes of rabbits

aren't sad. No one passes

the sad golden village in a barge

any more. The sunset

will leave it alone. If the

curtains hang askew

it is no one's fault.

Around and around and around

everywhere the same sound

of wheels going, and things

growing older, growing

silent. If the dogs

bark to each other

all night, and their eyes

flash red, thats

nobody's business. They have

a great space of dark to

bark across. The rabbits

will bare their teeth at

the spring moon.

- Denise Levertov: "The Springtime" from Collected Earlier Poems 1940-1960.

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