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<b>L O W L A N D S - L - 30 March 2010 - Volume 04</b><br>
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From: <span class="gd"><span><span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Sandy Fleming</span></span></span><span class="gi"> </span><span class="go"><<a href="mailto:sandy@fleimin.demon.co.uk">sandy@fleimin.demon.co.uk</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="gi">LL-L "Traditions" 2010.03.30 (01) [DE-EN-NDS]</span></span></p>
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From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>
> Subject: Traditions</span></p>
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Here’s just an explanatory note about the tradition Hanne calls<br>
> Bänkelsang and I know as Moritat or Moritatensingen. In English I<br>
> would describe these as “street ballads, usually performed with<br>
> accompanying picture sheets.” It is also called “cantastoria,” an<br>
> Italian loanword. These were particularly popular when there was still<br>
> a lot of illiteracy or semi-literacy and this was welcome<br>
> entertainment for poor folk.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">This sort of entertainment
is alive and well here in the UK,
but not<br>
really in ballad form, unless you're talking about the sheer length of<br>
some of these displays. As far as I've seen, the narrative is just<br>
spoken over a series of pictures.<br>
<br>
The "Cantastoria" I've seen are mainly educational in intent, rather<br>
than entertaining. Some of the techniques described in the Wikipedia<br>
article are certainly used, though naturally a lot of it is modernised.<br>
I've seen laser pens used to illuminate parts of the pictures rather<br>
than just lamps, as described in the article, and often a projector is<br>
used to project the series of pictures onto a screen.<br>
<br>
Some of the Cantastoria aren't terribly artistic or skillfully<br>
presented. Sometimes they can seem quite bizarre in their ineptitude,<br>
without pictures or even drawings on the screen, but just bits of text<br>
which the "balladeer" simply expands upon, sometimes at great length,<br>
though others are known to simply read the text straight off the screen<br>
at their doubtless bored and longsuffering audience.<br>
<br>
I understand that "Cantastoria" translates into English as
"PowerPoint",<br>
isn't that right?<br>
<br>
Oh, and if you don't get a chance to read this until Thursday morning,<br>
may I just say, April Fool :)<br>
<span style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136);"><br>
Sandy Fleming<br>
<a href="http://scotstext.org/" target="_blank">http://scotstext.org/</a></span></span></p>
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