She's been awfully in love with herself for an awfully long time. Sings well. Does a very good Bob Dylan imitation.
Joanna
andie nachgeborenen wrote:
>This story is extremely unfortunate if true, and I am
>sorry if JB is starting to lose it, but (a) she's not
>really to be faulted if her audience doesn't include
>black people these days, particularly in view of the
>fact that it did when it counted and when it was brave
>and actually dangerous for her to sing We Shall
>Overcome, and (b) for those of you who care about
>ethnic identity credentials, although it was (to say
>the least) dumb and insensitive for Baez for do this
>Ebonics rap, it should be remembered that she is
>actually a Mexican-American and therefore a genuine
>member of an oppressed minority.
>
>That doesn't, as I say, excuse bad judgment and poor
>taste with the blackface act. But she is not another
>white latte liberal -- in fact she is neither a
>liberal in the sense intended at all but a radical and
>always has been -- and she is not white either but a
>Mexican-American. I suppose it makes a difference of
>some sort.
>
>jks
>
>--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>>[thanks to Michael Pug - good links at orig]
>>
>><http://www.lastsuperpower.net/newsitems/Baez>
>>
>>Joan Baez and Me
>>
>>Once Joan finished her minstrelsy riff, the
>>audience, in which I did
>>not see a single black person, went wild with
>>applause and hoots and
>>hollers. I have never felt so embarrassed for a
>>bunch of "liberals"
>>in my life. I wonder where Baez got her notions of
>>how poor black
>>country folk talk-she couldn't be stereotyping,
>>could she?
>>
>>Ronald Bailey
>>
>>She gwine tell de folks how dat ol' missuh prez'dent
>>be a debbil!
>>
>>Charlottesville, VA-America's "culture war" was on
>>full display last
>>night at the Joan Baez concert. Tickets to the
>>concert were a present
>>to my mother-in-law for her 69th birthday. My
>>mother-in-law certainly
>>fit the demographic of the audience, or as she
>>described it, "All the
>>old hippies are out tonight." Let's just say that by
>>attending, my
>>wife and I dropped the average age of the audience
>>by several months.
>>
>>Sixty-three year old Baez came out on stage and
>>asked how the
>>audience felt about the election? Of course the
>>audience groaned and
>>moaned-after all, this IS a Joan Baez concert. For
>>her part, Joan
>>said that she felt like she had been run over by a
>>truck. One
>>audience member yelled, "You give us hope." Now I
>>like a good
>>rendition of "Joe Hill" or "Diamonds and Rust," as
>>well as the next
>>person and I do recognize her talent as a singer.
>>And Baez has a
>>perfect right to dedicate a song, as she did, to
>>that insufferable,
>>lying self-promoter Michael Moore, whom she praised
>>for doing his
>>best to save the country. Later Baez announced that
>>she was going to
>>sing a song that she sang only in countries that
>>were undergoing
>>extreme political strife. In fact, she hadn't sung
>>it in the United
>>States in the last 20 years. The song? "We Shall
>>Overcome."
>>
>>However, the most remarkable and disturbing episode
>>occurred halfway
>>through the concert when Joan stopped singing and
>>announced that she
>>had "multiple personalities." One of her multiple
>>personalities is
>>that of a fifteen year old poor black girl named
>>Alice from Turkey
>>Scratch, Arkansas. Baez decided to share with us
>>Alice's views on the
>>election. Amazed and horrified I watched a rich,
>>famous, extremely
>>white folksinger perform what can only be described
>>as bit of
>>minstrelsy-only the painted on blackface was
>>missing. Alice, the
>>black teenager from Arkansas Baez was pretending to
>>be, spoke in a
>>dialect so broad and thick that it would put Uncle
>>Remus and Amos and
>>Andy to shame. Baez' monologue was filled with
>>phrases like, "I'se
>>g'win ta" to do this that or the other and dropping
>>all final "g's."
>>Baez as Alice made statements like, "de prezident,
>>he be a racist,"
>>and "de prezident, he got a bug fer killin'."
>>Finally, since Bush won
>>the election with 58.7 million votes to Kerry's 55.1
>>million, Alice
>>observed, "Seems lak haf' de country be plumb
>>crazy." Since Baez was
>>reading Alice's notes, it is evident that she thinks
>>that Arkansas'
>>public schools don't teach black children to write
>>standard English.
>>
>>Once Joan finished her minstrelsy riff, the
>>audience, in which I did
>>not see a single black person, went wild with
>>applause and hoots and
>>hollers. I have never felt so embarrassed for a
>>bunch of "liberals"
>>in my life. I wonder where Baez got her notions of
>>how poor black
>>country folk talk-she couldn't be
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