P.S. He was fantastic last night at Carnegie Hall, together with Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Natalie Marchant, Sarah McLachlan and others. He introduced Wimoweh with the account (I had recently researched this via google) that he had gotten the word wrong because he picked it up from a record in 1949. Then he sang, as ever inviting some of us to sing low, others high. But Pete can't do the falsetto part now, so it was done my LBM -- wonderful beyond belief!
Jesse Lemisch
----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 6:12 PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Dispiriting Suburbs?
>
> On Oct 18, 2006, at 6:03 PM, Jesse Lemisch wrote:
>
> > I always disliked Malvina Reynolds' "Little Boxes.... all made out of
> > ticky-tacky," etc., as contemptuous of people, including
> > suburbanites, who
> > live in those little boxes. I was therefore quite surprised in reading
> > Bettina Aptheker's excellent new memoir, Intimate Politics, to hear
> > that
> > Reynolds was a Communist. It had been my experience that Communists,
> > regardless of their other problems, did not insult potential
> > constituencies.
> > But there's no doubt that contempt for suburbia was very much a
> > part of the
> > New Left.
>
> Pete Seeger sang it too, and he was a Communist in some sense, no?
>
> I thought that part of the point of encouraging suburbanization was
> to break up the urban working class, and make it more atomized and
> conservative. Is that not true?
>
> Doug
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