tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872819010848426693.post9080443737162217633..comments2024-03-28T02:46:03.227-04:00Comments on The Historical Society: A Day in the Life: Art and HistoryRandallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16755286304057000048noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872819010848426693.post-63891150650095531302011-06-22T21:14:52.177-04:002011-06-22T21:14:52.177-04:00Elizabeth:
I'm reading Puck on Google Books, ...Elizabeth:<br /><br />I'm reading Puck on Google Books, and if you go to GB and search for Puck, then click on vol. 1-2, on p. 34 there's a huge image of telephones that were being used for a concert or something, described earlier on in that issue. Didn't read it, but it's all very tongue-in-cheek, as Puck was.<br /><br />I'm afraid you've got me looking for telephones now!hcrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07334093881332383848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872819010848426693.post-38141658357683975292011-06-21T17:10:54.248-04:002011-06-21T17:10:54.248-04:00hcr,
Randall,
Many thanks for your memories/idea...hcr,<br /><br />Randall,<br /><br />Many thanks for your memories/ideas!<br /><br />Yes, the Beatles do become more 'serious' with time, but remember that their fans too are becoming older!!Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00822197854763797106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872819010848426693.post-82627535977731538522011-06-18T21:52:43.326-04:002011-06-18T21:52:43.326-04:00To bridge the two . . .
The Beatles song "No...To bridge the two . . .<br /><br />The Beatles song "No Reply" has this lyric:<br /><br />"I tried to telephone<br />They said you were not home<br />That's a lie<br />Cos I know where you've been<br />I saw you walk in your door"<br /><br />I like that Brit English makes "telephone" into a verb . . . and I think this is a terrific album, that seems better with every year that goes by. The Beatles became slightly dark, slightly depressing.<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILdBDOPoEDQRandallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16755286304057000048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872819010848426693.post-67944590720620499192011-06-18T13:08:45.075-04:002011-06-18T13:08:45.075-04:00Great topic for a thesis, Elizabeth! When I think ...Great topic for a thesis, Elizabeth! When I think of early images of telephones, I think first of Thurber's wonderful description of telephones coming to his small town, then the telephone lady in The Russians Are Coming, then the use of telephone exchanges in Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe stories. Telephone portrayed as an extension of ludicrous female gossip networks; telephone as accessory to crime/detective work. <br /><br />There's so much you can do with this topic! And it's so much fun....hcrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07334093881332383848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872819010848426693.post-65442887539708888552011-06-17T16:53:06.397-04:002011-06-17T16:53:06.397-04:00Excellent post! You've touched on a salient p...Excellent post! You've touched on a salient point in social history - how we can justify using works of art (of any kind) in examining the past. This is one thread I may incorporate in my thesis (social history of the telephone): how telephony was (re)presented in artwork. I have a long way to go yet on this!<br /><br />Totally irrelevant, but I also use Beatles songs to teach English (as a foreign language) to 6th graders. The fact that they are too young to know who the Fab Four were means they can appreciate their music without any preconceptions or associated historical baggage. They simply love the songs for what they are.Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00822197854763797106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872819010848426693.post-65454109954286275772011-06-17T16:31:56.376-04:002011-06-17T16:31:56.376-04:00What's that great quotation about Rolling Ston...What's that great quotation about Rolling Stone? Something like: "Stories about people who can't speak, for people who can't read, by people who can't write...." (Although that's unfair on all counts, of course.) Glad to hear you're teaching Rock History.hcrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07334093881332383848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872819010848426693.post-51106845032004500392011-06-17T14:48:48.415-04:002011-06-17T14:48:48.415-04:00Great post! You inspired me to pull out some Beat...Great post! You inspired me to pull out some Beatles LPs to play while I install some new blinds. <br /><br />I'm teaching a course on Rock History in the fall. I might like to use a rock photo journalist's work to ask students some questions about recent history.Randallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16755286304057000048noreply@blogger.com