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Apr232016

MUSIC Jazz: from common tongue to cliquey dialect

MUSIC CINEMA & BOOKSApril 23, 2016

Modern jazz has reached such a high level of sophistication it is hard to imagine how it might increase in complexity. Instrumental technique, especially on piano and guitar, has become so advanced any further improvements would probably be largely imperceptible to listeners. Harmonic knowledge is exceptionally deep, the complexity of phrasing is advanced and the rhythmic complexity endlessly ornate. Jazz saxophonist and composer John Coltrane. So, why is it so often strangely unsatisfying, especially for those not well versed in the vocabulary of the form? Why does the jazz of the 1950s and 1960s seem so much more memorable and…

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Apr232016

HUMOUR

POETRY LETTERS & HUMOURApril 23, 2016

Collision at writers’ festival Please, sir, would you sign the petition to allow us to work on Sundays? Fool a why, no officer. Got these fish back take have I away away there for eat after dinner cook every cake up Friday. Like, it’s bicycle tyred up away balloon pants in clown fit up out over under soup spout spoilt for four fore. Joyce, rejoice, Emmanuel Kant pull the finger out, Emmanual read, read emmanuel man, cool aid, band man, leave it after, got man to hair that out get I. I, ball, zup, per, class, terisk. There were no survivors.…

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Apr232016

BOOK REVIEW Meet the new userers

MUSIC CINEMA & BOOKS, UncategorizedApril 23, 2016

KILLING THE HOST: How Financial Parasites and Debt Destroy the Global Economy by Michael Hudson (ISLET, Kansas City) Paperback: 440 pages ISBN: 9783981484281Price: AUD$80.25 Reviewed by David James In 1720, at the height of the South Sea Bubble, the British Parliament debated the proposition that bankers should be sewn into a sack with poisonous snakes and thrown into the Thames. They perhaps concluded that it would be too dangerous for the snakes, which did not deserve to be put into such low company. Little has changed in the subsequent 300 years. As was graphically illustrated in September…

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LETTERS

POETRY LETTERS & HUMOURApril 9, 2016

Selective anti-violence Sir, Australia needs a more balanced path for its social policies. On the one hand, for instance, there is much emphasis on combating violence that adheres to a required political agenda. Yet, the violence associated with abortion and coercion of it are simply ignored. On the other side, in some schools that participate in the Safe Schools Coalition, categories of bullying such as height, weight, race or religion get a mention, but little attention is paid to them. Gender attitude is well down the list as a cause for bullying, but it is rammed down the throat of…

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