What Captain America means to me
Jul. 31st, 2011 02:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dormouse1953I see there is a Captain America film out at the moment. I probably won't go to see it, not through any antipathy to the genre but because I rarely go to the cinema these days. Anyway, when I read comics back in the sixties, it was always DC. In my memory, they had brighter, brasher artwork compared to Marvel.
But I am a fan of contemporary music, and not long after I moved to London - January 4th 1974 according to my diary - I attended a concert which premiered a song cycle called Voices by the German left-wing composer Hans Werner Henze, who also conducted.
The settings are of revolutionary poems by German (including Brecht), Latin American and north American poets. One was called The Electric Cop by the Puerto Rica born poet Victor Hernandez Cruz. It starts:
this guy on t.v.
who rob everything he got
who rob
a thief
who rob
who kill
a killer who kills
this guy on t.v.
what they say and they do/captain america tears his panties
as he swings for freedom
I really liked the whole work and I find I have three different CDs of it in my collection. So, after nearly 40 years, whenever I hear the name Captain America, I immediately think "captain america tears his panties as he swings for freedom".
But I am a fan of contemporary music, and not long after I moved to London - January 4th 1974 according to my diary - I attended a concert which premiered a song cycle called Voices by the German left-wing composer Hans Werner Henze, who also conducted.
The settings are of revolutionary poems by German (including Brecht), Latin American and north American poets. One was called The Electric Cop by the Puerto Rica born poet Victor Hernandez Cruz. It starts:
this guy on t.v.
who rob everything he got
who rob
a thief
who rob
who kill
a killer who kills
this guy on t.v.
what they say and they do/captain america tears his panties
as he swings for freedom
I really liked the whole work and I find I have three different CDs of it in my collection. So, after nearly 40 years, whenever I hear the name Captain America, I immediately think "captain america tears his panties as he swings for freedom".
