![]() ![]() Of course, it's not always quite that simple, so let's look at more examples: Case study 2: Sounds of Blackness – Optimistic ![]() The rise of the chord sequence It might seem rather obvious to suggest that a rising chord sequence or melody is going to be more optimistic, but that doesn't mean it's not true. Only God knew that Brian Wilson was channelling UK kids' TV from the future to write his best songs. Or perhaps Goldfrapp got it from the masters of wordless interludes. Case study 1b: Beach Boys – God Only Knows Although the genius who composed this had already cemented its glassy-eyed optimistic credentials with the triumphant rise through the first five chords of C major (the happiest of all keys) in the intro. Case study 1a: Jim'll Fix It ThemeĪlmost certainly where the idea came from. ![]() An unhinged falling then rising theremin leads us through a bouncy major-key passage that sighs each time into a more wistful minor chord before those Jim'll Fix It "Ba Ba Ba"s rise back up to the euphoric major passage. However, it's the wordless passage when the drums kick in at 1:20 that interests us here. “We’ve been fighting for this for years.With implications of cult brainwashing in the lyrics, Happiness isn't as simple as the title might suggest. While 2015 will be remembered as a pivotal year in Black radical politics, “This ain’t nothin’ new,” my mom once told me. ![]() Today, many of us will come together singing “We Shall Overcome Someday” with a sinking feeling that someday isn’t coming soon enough. In an imagined conversation between Lamar and 2Pac, the groove grinds to a halt, becoming a distant memory as Lamar reminds us, "In my opinion, only hope that we kinda have left is music and vibrations, lotta people don't understand how important it is." Complex, twisted, and unrelenting from the first track to the last, distrust and depression go hand-in-hand, as the music swerves in and out of its own frenzied funk. However, the most in-your-face discourse comes from Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly. While the rallying cry for today’s movement comes in the form of a hashtag, we can identify a powerfully-sustained response from the creative community, including D’Angelo’s Black Messiah, Rhiannon Giddens’s “Cry No More,” and Janelle Monae’s “Hell You Talmbout.” Black bodies were on the brink of extinction, and it is this primal fear that provides the fuel for the #BlackLivesMatter movement. When Bobby Seale and Huey Newton established the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, they called for freedom and power, addressing the most basic human instinct, survival. In the words of Stokley Carmichael, the time had come for “no more long prayers, no more Freedom songs, no more dreams.” It was time to “go for power.” This was low-level warfare raging on American soil, and in was response, a new era of the movement was beginning to take shape. One year later, protests and violence erupted in the West Side of Chicago, followed by riots in major cities across the country. 14,000 National Guardsmen descended upon the scene, and over the course of several days, 34 individuals were killed, with the cost in damage coming to about $35 million. Late in the summer of 1965, a riot broke out in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles. "Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)" With its simple, yet poignant refrain, and a melody that slowly rises over the third statement of the title phrase, the song quickly became a symbol of hope for a new society, governed by its founding principle of equality for all. At the founding convention of the Student for Non-Violence Coordinating Committee in 1960, members joined together in singing, “We Shall Overcome,” and it was at that moment that the freedom song became officially linked with the civil rights struggle. In 1945, during a labor strike of the Negro Food and Tobacco Union Workers, Zilphia Horton, then music director at the Highlander Folk Center, learned the hymn-turned-protest song as “I’ll Overcome Someday.” As the story is told, she then taught it to Pete Seeger, who replaced “I” with “We.” It was this revised version of the song that Seeger shared with the Center’s new music director, Guy Carawan, who introduced it to student civil rights activists in the 1950s. ![]()
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But this also meant that as performers walked away from the house, they were hiking up the stage. The sloped architecture creates better sightlines and acoustics for audiences. Upstage and Downstage While you probably know that upstage is farther away from the audience and downstage is closer to the edge of the stage, do you know why? Theatre pros coined the term due to the use of raked, or inclined, stages. Typically in the orchestra and considered the best in the theatre, house seats don’t go on sale to the public unless they are unsold as the performance date approaches. You may have also heard the phrase “house seats” these seats are reserved by producers (the heads of house). If you’re having a problem inside the theatre, you’ll want to speak to the house manager. House The “house” can refer to a couple of things in theatre: the actual auditorium, as well as the Front of House, which includes the lobby and box office and Front of House personnel like the house manager, box office attendants, and ushers. Thus began the association of the work with failing theatres. A wildly popular play, The Scottish Play was often put on in theatres with financial troubles to attempt to reverse their fate. ![]() The superstition also extends to calling the title character the Scottish King or Scottish Lord and his wife the Scottish Lady. The Scottish Play You learned in Playbill’s “8 Rules Every Theatre Person Must Follow” never to say Macbeth inside a theatre, but to call it “The Scottish Play.” Of course, Shakespeare was a British playwright, but the euphemism refers to the Scottish setting. The day off is known as the theatre’s “dark day” for the simple fact that all the lights are off as there is no performance. It comes from the practice of playing a part without memorizing the lines, relying on the prompter in the wings or pages of text affixed to set pieces like the wing flats.ĭark Theatre or Dark Day The majority of professional productions play eight shows over six days of the week. Wing it This theatre phrase has now been incorporated into the greater colloquial lexicon, but when actors would “wing it” they were going on unprepared. Now, we continue to say that those in the limelight are the center of attention. Theatres first began using limelight in the 1830s as the first spotlight. Invented in the early 1800s, limelight was generated by heating calcium oxide with a blend of oxygen and hydrogen. In the limelight Limelight was the first gas lamp alternative for lighting theatres. In the old days, chicken was considered a delicacy by saying “chookas” you are hoping the performance will go well and make money so that the performer can afford a gourmet meal. Australians say “chookas,” which is believed to be a permutation of “chook” or chicken. “In bocca al lupo” means “in the wolf’s mouth” and the correct response is “crepi il lupo,” which means “may the wolf die”-warding off a bad omen. “Toi, toi, toi” in Germany emanates from the German/Yiddish history of spitting to ward off evil spirits and bad luck. Toi, Toi, Toi … In Bocca al Lupo … Chookas Around the world, there are yet more phrases to substitute for well wishes. The more audience members the more carriages, the more horses, the more. The origin of this tradition traces back to 19th-century Paris when attendees of the Paris Opera Ballet would pull up to the famed Palais Garnier in horse-drawn carriages. Merde Theatre performers opt for “break a leg,” but dancers commonly wish each other “merde,” which directly translates to “shit” in French. Wishing someone “break a leg” is wishing for thunderous applause. The more they stomped, the more chance there was of breaking a leg this tradition reappeared in Elizabethan England when audiences would stomp their chairs and, again, more stomping would break the leg of the chair. In Ancient Greece, audiences didn’t clap at performances, they stomped. Why do we say “merde” to wish luck to dancers? Why is staging a show called “blocking”? The answers to these and more below:īreak a Leg “It’s bad luck to say good luck on opening night,” of course, but how did we land on “break a leg”? There are a few explanations. While the list is not intended to be comprehensive, it will give you a start as to the meaning and origins of theatre staples. Playbill put together this list of crucial terms to help you better navigate the world of the stage and theatre history. But you can’t rely on Merriam-Webster to define show business colloquialisms-or let you know where they came from. 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Karapiru, whose name means Hawk in his native Awá, died in a hospital in the Amazonian state of Maranhão on July 16. The Indigenous survivor of a deadly ambush that sent him wandering alone for 10 years across 900 miles of rugged highlands in eastern Brazil has died of COVID-19 symptoms, according to fellow tribespeople and rights activists. ![]() |
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