Music, Art, Poetry etc when there's trouble, pain, despair, horror...

[hazelayes]

The BBC, this morning, started off a programme asking someone who'd been 'right there' in Rwanda and Zimbabwe and many other really bad situations (as part of his job with Medecin Sans Frontieres (sp?) If music and art etc ever seemed significant or important in the face of the suffering and inhumanity of man(woman/child) to man(woman/child) as he'

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[akane42me]

Too many idiotic questions asked during interviews these days. Drives me nuts.
Thanks for the dinner party story. That's a good one!

[hazelayes]

You're welcome, I got lots of them, drives folks crazy cause I'm always wanting to tell them stories to 'illustrate' what I mean... or what I think _they_ mean... *grin*

And on the blue note, I find singing along with Bessie Smith or Big Mama Thornton is generally good for what ails me. I probably sound like a hound dog but it hits the spot that other stuff can't quite reach.