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Let’s hear it for John Dunstaple, who is credited with the invention of the three-note chord, or triad, in the early 1400s. Where would modern music be without it?
Here’s one of the first songs to make use of the new discovery, a love song by Guillaume Dufay, circa 1430:
I bought a lute a couple of years ago and I’m slowly learning to play it. Many lute tunes are underplayed classics (except in lute circles of course). Here’s a really nice one from the 16th century, except it’s played on a vihuela, which is tuned the same and very similar in sound.
Moo: ‘Here’s a great, short-ish video chronicling the history of Chumbawamba:’
I’m going to have to listen to them a bit more. I hadn’t paid much attention to them at the time, except for when the delightfully self-styled Danbert Nobacon tipped a bucket of water over John Prescott’s head at the 1998 Britpop awards.
Whether they should be described as hard left like in the video is moot though – they looked to be against capitalism of the left, right or centre.
Have Chumbawamba been on before? I hadn’t realised at the time they were described as anarcho-communists. Some of the lyrics will resonate with WSM members.
A good article, YMS. The inquest and long covid have certainly made people prick up their ears and the dire situation with ME may now be too embarrassing for the govt to ignore.
It was as recently as three months ago that my daughter’s GP, sympathetic though he was, and admittedly clutching at straws, was still suggesting CBT.
We can only speculate how much resource a socialist society would put into ME research but somehow I think it would have a lot more priority than it’s getting now.
A common reaction, is it not, even in the medical profession, to say that any illness that isn’t understood must be all in the mind.
I am sure the family of Maeve Boothby O’Neill would be relieved to know their daughter died of nothing but, as Chelmsford puts it, a feeling of ‘fedupness’. And the inquest could have been saved a lot of time too.
Such views rightly belong in a previous era, as do the ignoramuses who hold them.I am more interested in what Monbiot has to say about the way this set of tossers helped to spread erroneous and totally unscientific views about ME.
One of our daughters, a mother of two in her early forties, has this condition, which has been getting steadily worse over the last decade. She is now virtually bedbound, can’t tolerate normal daylight or noises, has to be spoken to in a whisper and can only whisper back. For years ignoramuses like these helped to spread the belief that it was all in the mind and the sufferer’s own fault, and that totally inappropriate treatments were the answer, whereas in severe cases they make it worse. My daughter and others like her know different. As if she would willingly withdraw from everyday life and avoid experiencing her children growing up.
As Monbiot pointed out, it’s a physical illness and much more should have been done over the years to find the cause and a possible cure. I’ve written to both Tory and Labour governments about it and had a dialogue with Sean O’Neill, the father of the girl who died. Since her death there are now promises from the government that it will be taken more seriously but there’s always the chance that as long as it doesn’t affect business as usual, and mainly affects women, and long covid recedes, it will be swept under the carpet again.Some of the conversations between the capitalists are hilarious too. They are as thick as two short planks, showing that, despite what some of the workers think, you don’t have to be clever to be rich.
E.g. in a discussion on evolution: “Well, I ses, if it’s true that we’re hall descended from monkeys, I ses, I think your family must ‘ave left orf where mine begun”.
And their childlike views on science: “If it was true that the world is spinnin’ round on its axle so quick as that, if a man started out from Calais to fly to Dover, by the time he got to England he’d find ‘imself in North America, or p’r’aps farther off still”.
“And if it was true that the world goes round the sun at the rate they makes out, when a balloon went up, the earth would run away from it! They’d never be able to get it back again!”
Che Colpa Abbiamo Noi (It’s Not Our Fault) – a sort of young v old protest song from the 60s, blaming an entire generation for the world’s ills. As people still do, of course – witness Brexit.
The Rokes were an English band based in Italy.
Eve of Destruction – a much-banned dystopian protest song from the mid-60s.
What totally passed me by at the time was this yucky conservative response, Dawn of Correction, by a group called The Spokesmen.
“Marlo Venus”? I have always understood this to be “Milo Venus”, as in the Venus de Milo, who does indeed have no arms.
