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 Singers are tricksters

2010-06-15 18:15:56

If one of the weird things about singers is the ecstasy of surrender they inspire, another weird thing is the debunking response a singer can arouse once we’ve recovered our senses. It’s as if they’ve fooled us into loving them, diddled our hard-wiring, located a vulnerability we thought we’d long ago armored over. Falling in love with a singer is like being a teenager every time it happens. Singers are tricksters.

"What Makes a Great Singer?" by Jonathan Lethem
[via ziemianiczyja.pl]

[Projekt "50 Great Voices", npr.org]

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iammacio 76 381   16/06/10, 20:18  
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Greil Marcus - (..) over the last twenty years I’ve noticed more critics and commentators of all sorts saying, essentially, “You can’t fool me. I won’t be fooled. I know what this is about. I see the man behind the curtain.” A willingness to be fooled, to be taken into someone else’s imaginary world, to believe in something that didn’t happen when you’re reading a book or listening to a song—that’s how you connect with art, by being willing to be fooled.

http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/124369-high-stakes-criticism-an-interview-with-greil-marcus/P1