Il y a une éternité maintenant Allen Ginsberg enregistrait pour la postérité un album de poésie intitulé The Ballad of Skeletons en compagnie de Paul McCartney et de Philip Glass. Quelques années plus tard et deux ans avant sa mort, sur une scène londonienne, l'un des personnages essentiels de la beat generation, se faisait assister d'un guitariste obscur, membre d'un groupe oublié de Liverpool, pour l'accompagner dans sa diatribe contre l'Amérique puritaine, militariste, arc-boutée sur les valeurs familiales et antigay. Cet enregistrement assez exceptionnel dans son genre témoigne de la vigueur d'une poésie peu prisée en Europe : politique, engagée, révolutionnaire et hautement mélodique.
Aujourd'hui, Ginsberg est mort et coincé entre Burroughs et Kerouac dans les manuels d'histoire beat. Mc Cartney toujours vivant (encore que...) peine à faire croire qu'il a été l'espace d'une soirée plus politique que son comparse à lunettes.
Les Beats sont les seuls à avoir rendu le mot CIA super-tendance, à avoir fait swinguer les "multinationales", le "fascisme" et les "shoots" avec élégance. Rien que pour ça, ils méritent un mausolée à ciel ouvert.
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hello Fish ! great post !
salut djaipi, un petit verre la semaine prochaine?
HEY YOU, FISH ! So fantastic, what a gift !
As-tu des nouvelles du travail de Gilles et Pascal sur la poésie de Ginsberg ?
I love you !
If you don't mind, I'll just copy it for my space ?
J'adore, je l'écoute en boucle (avec élévation quand même donc spirale). Martine je n'ai pas de nouvelles du projet de Gilles et toi?
Non,c'est pour cela que je te posais la question ! biz
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