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American novelist and journalist (1871-1945)

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Obscure with Michael Ian Black
S4 Episode 71- Some Jane Austen-esque Hinjinks!

Obscure with Michael Ian Black

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 14, 2025 33:00


Nobody was expecting hijinks from Dreiser but here we are, enjoying an episode which is little more than a comedy of errors. Clyde has maneuvered the entire Lycurgus social scene to his benefit. It's got the entire Griffiths clan in a tizzy!Support Obscure!Read Michael's substackFollow Michael on TwitterFollow Michael on InstagramSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Obscure with Michael Ian Black
S4 Episode 65 - Party Animal

Obscure with Michael Ian Black

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 5, 2024 30:33


Clyde is out there living it up while Roberta sits at home and cries. Well, we don't know that Roberta is home crying while Clyde is out among the Lycurgus jet set (despite the fact that jets have not yet been invented) because Dreiser doesn't even care enough about Roberta to check in with her on this, the moment of her greatest betrayal. Even so, your host would be lying if he didn't admit that he wishes Sondra would develop a lil' crush on him, too.Support Obscure!Read Michael's substackFollow Michael on TwitterFollow Michael on InstagramSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Behind the Mic with AudioFile Magazine
AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Theodore Dreiser, read by Grover Gardner

Behind the Mic with AudioFile Magazine

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 6, 2024 7:00


A master performer, Grover Gardner elevates Dreiser's naturalistic 1925 novel, an account of the strivings and disappointments of Clyde Griffiths, a flawed but fascinating protagonist whose rise and fall end when he commits a heinous crime and is executed for it. Host Jo Reed and AudioFile's Alan Minskoff discuss a title that Alan says will make even the most hard-hearted listener yearn for restorative justice, thanks to its precisely chiseled anti-capitalist details of a stratified collar factory with its nepotistic organization and its evocation of prison life—rigid, punitive, and unyielding. Read the full review of the audiobook on AudioFile's website. Published by Blackstone Audio. Discover thousands of audiobook reviews and more at AudioFile's website. Support for our podcast comes from Hachette Audio, the publisher of CONNIE, this behind the scenes look into Connie Chung's life, read by Connie Chung herself. Find out more at Hachette Audio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Obscure with Michael Ian Black
S4 Episode 44 - Tush!

Obscure with Michael Ian Black

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2024 35:09


Could Clyde possibly be a snob? Does he have it within him? Dreiser certainly seems to think so. On today's episode of Obscure, Clyde is cast from the fine home on Wycagy Avenue and contemplates a return to Chicago. But then, an unexpected turn of events raises Clyde in the estimation of his relations.Support Obscure!Read Michael's substackFollow Michael on TwitterFollow Michael on InstagramSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Get Lit Podcast
Get Lit Episode 271: Theodore Dreiser

Get Lit Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2024 92:54


We're joined by a very special guest host: Paige Zukauskas! Paige brings her knowledge and passion for Dreiser to this week's episode as we explore another mostly midwest author, discuss Sister Carrie, and track adventures across political and social ideologies! Dreiser wrote many groundbreaking novels but isn't often celebrated as other authors from this period. We speculate on this and celebrate his legacy, it's a trip! 

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Lost in Translation
Laurence Cossu-Beaumont : l'agence Bradley et les échanges littéraires franco-américains au début du XXème siècle

Lost in Translation

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2023 58:45


Dans cet épisode, Laurence Cossu-Beaumont, professeure des universités à la Sorbonne Nouvelle, nous parle de ses recherches autour de l'agence Bradley, qui a œuvré aux échanges littéraires transatlantiques dans l'entre-deux-guerres. William et Jenny Bradley ont fondé la première agence littéraire en France et se sont mis au service de Gide, Cendrars, Colette, Sartre, Camus, Malraux, mais aussi Dreiser, Hemingway, Faulkner ou Gertrude Stein... et beaucoup d'autres encore ! Nous avons parlé des échanges culturels entre les deux pays, de la migration de certains auteurs et autrices américains à Paris ou encore du métier méconnu d'agent littéraire... Si vous souhaitez en savoir plus, vous pouvez lire le livre de Laurence, Deux agents littéraires dans le siècle américain : William et Jenny Bradley, passeurs culturels transatlantiques (ENS Editions, 2023). Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

The Classic Tales Podcast
Ep. 865, The Lost Phoebe, by Theodore Dreiser VINTAGE

The Classic Tales Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2023 45:30


Everyone says Henry's wife, Phoebe, has died. But to Henry, she's still alive. Theodore Dreiser, today on The Classic Tales Podcast.  Welcome to this Vintage Episode of The Classic Tales Podcast. Thank you for listening. Two Vintage Episodes are released each week, so be sure to check your feed regularly. New episodes will be available every Friday. If you like the Vintage Episodes, please let us know by going to http://classictalesaudiobooks.com. Become a supporter, tell your friends, order an audiobook, or send us an email. You can also give us a review on Apple Podcasts. We'd love to hear if you like the older episodes.  Theodore Dreiser was a leading figure of a new literary movement in America, replacing the observances of the Victorian days with new social problems that reflected the industrialization of America. His best known works are Sister Carrie (1922), and An American Tragedy (1925).  Dreiser's works are far from perfect, and tend to get longer as you read them. However, like many who brave new paths, the writers before Dreiser were remarkably different than those who followed him. While perhaps not a perfect guidepost, he nevertheless showed a new path and took a few wavering steps. The Lost Phoebe is the only one of Dreiser's titles in the Classic Tales canon. I've tried to return to him over the past 16 years and it just hasn't worked out. Strange, because The Lost Phoebe has some absolutely masterful moments.  And now, The Lost Phoebe, by Theodore Dreiser. Follow this link to become a monthly supporter: Follow this link to subscribe to our YouTube Channel: Follow this link to subscribe to the Arsène Lupin Podcast:   Follow this link to follow us on Instagram:  Follow this link to follow us on Facebook:  Follow this link to follow us on TikTok:    

Voices of Today
Free And Other Stories sample

Voices of Today

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 19, 2023 4:49


The complete audiobook is available for purchase at Audible.com: voicesoftoday.net/free This collection presents eleven of Dreiser's best tales, ranging from trenchant social analysis to penetrating character study. One of Dreiser's most powerful stories, “Nigger Jeff” was occasioned when Dreiser was forced to witness a lynching, an experience that disturbed him deeply. One of Dreiser's strongest champions during his lifetime, H. L. Mencken declared "that he is a great artist, and that no other American of his generation left so wide and handsome a mark upon the national letters. American writing, before and after his time, differed almost as much as biology before and after Darwin. He was a man of large originality, of profound feeling, and of unshakable courage. All of us who write are better off because he lived, worked, and hoped."

Instant Trivia
Episode 393 - Andrew Johnson - Crossword Clues "D" - Silk - Major Musical Works - Elizabeth Taylor

Instant Trivia

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 10, 2022 7:19


Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 393, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Andrew Johnson 1: Andrew Johnson succeeded this man as president, having served as his vice president for only 6 weeks. Abraham Lincoln. 2: Johnson was the first president to whom the House of Representatives did this; the Senate acquitted him in May 1868. impeached. 3: With no formal education, Andrew didn't learn these 3 often-linked basic skills until he was a teenager. reading, writing and arithmetic. 4: A senator from this state, Andrew Johnson was the only Southern senator who refused to secede with his state. Tennessee. 5: Johnson's secretary of state, he negotiated the purchase of Alaska for a cool $7.2 million. William Seward. Round 2. Category: Crossword Clues "D" 1: Bram Stoker novel you can "count" on(7). Dracula. 2: Samson's locks-smith(7). Delilah. 3: Greek gelt(8). drachmas. 4: Perry Mason's Street(5). Della. 5: "American Tragedian" Theodore(7). Dreiser. Round 3. Category: Silk 1: Silkworms spin their cocoons by moving their heads in this numerical pattern figure skaters make on ice. a figure eight. 2: Before World War II, the biggest use for silk in the U.S. was to manufacture these for women. stockings. 3: During World War II, silk was used to make the canopies of these; today they're usually made of nylon. parachutes. 4: One silkworm is the larva of the Bombyx mori moth; "mori" comes from Morus multicalus, the scientific name of this tree. the mulberry tree. 5: In the 500s A.D. this Byzantine emperor known for his code sent 2 monks to China to learn the secret of silk. Justinian. Round 4. Category: Major Musical Works 1: Opus 51 of this man portrayed in the movie "Impromptu" is an impromptu in G flat major. Chopin. 2: This first season of Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" is in E major. "Spring". 3: Tchaikovsky called this work of his in E flat major "loud and noisy", and he never even heard it with fireworks. "The 1812 Overture". 4: "Scene by the brook" is the title of one movement of this Beethoven symphony in F major. the 6th symphony. 5: Bach to Bach works, Nos. 3 and 4 in this group of 6 concertos, are in G major. the Brandenberg Concertos. Round 5. Category: Elizabeth Taylor 1: When asked what she wanted on her tombstone, she replied, "Here lies Elizabeth. She hated to be called" this. Liz. 2: This man married her in Montreal and then again in Botswana. Richard Burton. 3: Elizabeth Taylor was the first star to earn a million dollars for a film, for this 1963 title role. Cleopatra. 4: On January 15, 2001 this man who has been married 7 times interviewed Ms. Taylor on TV. Larry King. 5: On New Year's Eve 1999, Queen Elizabeth awarded her this title. Dame. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!

Mr. Tony Dennis' Podcast
Episode 331: MrTD Presents - Soundscape

Mr. Tony Dennis' Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 26, 2021 131:14


1. Shuya Okino - Still In Love2. Santos - Love Made For Two3. Kerri Chandler - Rain4. Gilles Peterson's Havana Cultura Band ft Dreiser & Sexto Sentido - Orisa5. Elements Of Life, Gilles Peterson - Barbara Ann6. Phil Hooton presents The Mitch - The Latin Tingles7. Louie Vega, Elements of Life, Anane - Ma Mi Mama8. 4hero-Star Chasers9. Dom Navarra, Antonio Navarra - Search 2 Find The Real10. Nightmares On Wax Feat. Mozez Ron Trent Vocal Remix - Citizen Kane11. USG - Ncameu12. Tom Conrad & Andre Bonsor - Wave Of Love13. Gilles Peterson's Havana Cultura Band - Havana Sessions14. Louie Vega, Anane - Music n Life15. Teddy Douglas, Skip & The Whole Nine Yards, Doug Gomez - Spanish Joint16. Ambrosia - Lean On Me Remix17. The Carlos Sanchez Movement III Feat. Lorenzo Tyler - Spirit of the Dance18. Charles Dockins - Our Day19. Paul Rudder, Segilola - Glue20. Msk, Dj Tea, Dave - Nomperere21. TekniQ - Pyramids 

Learn English
Theodore Dreiser. The writer of American dreams. Elementary listening

Learn English

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 9, 2021 2:04


Dreiser was born in Indiana, America. His parents were of German origin. They were very poor. He spent his childhood in poverty. He went to university but didn't take a degree. In 1892 he started to work as a reporter for Chicago newspapers. His first novel Sister Carrie is about a young woman who doesn't want to live in the countryside. She goes to the city and becomes a famous actress. The novel makes people think about morality and lifestyle. It was called the greatest of all American urbal novels. In his other novels he shows different situations where young people want to have a lot of money. Some of such people become criminals. People killed for money, married for money and it was called the American kind of crime. Dreiser also was a poet. He wrote about poverty and ambition. He understood the social injustice of the working class and joined the Communist party USA in 1945. His business novels make people think about life and goals in life. There is a Dreiser college in New York. Also, you can see his name in a Chicago Literary Hall of Fame. He is one of the greatest unique American writers, who showed some important aspects of social life.

Archer Dentin
Change by Theodore Dreiser

Archer Dentin

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 20, 2021 7:43


Change is an essay in Dreiser's collection, Hey, Rub-a-Dub-Dub: A Book of the Mystery and Wonder and Terror of Life (1920). "I often think how foolishly humanity opposes change at times and how steadily and uninterruptedly it flows in, altering the face of the world." --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hmphaudiobooks/support

The Big Book Club Podcast from Arlington Public Library
An American Tragedy, pt.1, by Theodore Dreiser

The Big Book Club Podcast from Arlington Public Library

Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2021 35:16


This week on the podcast we're reading part 1 of “An American Tragedy,” by Theodore Dreiser. Originally published in 1925, Dreiser based his novel on a notorious murder of a young woman named Grace Brown, and the subsequent trial of her boyfriend. The novel has just been republished in a new edition. The next two episodes will cover parts two and three. Episode Links “An American Tragedy,” by Theodore Dreiser Reading Pete - "Cuyahoga” by Pete Beatty Jennie - “One of Us is Next" by Karen M. McManus, the sequel to One of Us Is Lying Megan – “Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World” by Laura Spinney and “Eat a Peach: A Memoir” by David Chang Tell us what YOU think about this book, or anything else you're reading, in our GoodReads or Facebook groups, or talk to us on twitter using the #BigBookPodcast hashtag. If you'd like to make a suggestion for future reading send us your recommendations on the Big Book Club Podcast page on the Arlington Public Library website. Upcoming Summer Books: Our July 19 book will be “The Big Sleep,” by Raymond Chandler, followed by Terry Pratchet's “The Wee Free Men” for August 2.  

Fast Asleep
“The Lost Phoebe” by Theodore Dreiser

Fast Asleep

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 5, 2020 40:36


***** With his “naturalist” style, Dreiser writes tenderly of decades-long love. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

WIDE Radio
Sin Sync Djs: Badderdendem - 11th Jun 2020

WIDE Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2020 60:39


Podcast: Sin Sync Djs Special guest: @badderdendem Tuesday 5PM UK More info at: https://itswide.com/en/sin-sync-djs-11th-jun-w-badderdendem/ ‎ Tracklist: Emapea - Rudeboy Amit - Batty Batty (Dany Scrilla Remix) Blundetto - My One girl (Gogo Remix) Mala; Dreiser & Sexto Sentido - Como Como Nightmares On Wax - Damn Congi - Spoken Word DTR - Walls of Babylon (Akcept Remix) Pharma - Movement Steve Spacek - Ring di Alarm Samba - Winona Rygby - Non-Commital Dub Size - Heavy Dub Chalart58; Matah - In a Bubble Steamroller- iSt3p Fearless Dread - Double Red Beat Fatigue - Stuck in a Dream Cimm; Rider Shafique - The Corner Somah - Dark Arts Cyrus; Random Trio - Gutter Shackleton - Hamas Rule Traces - Suffering Author - Sun Nuboid - Authority Enigma Dubz - The Eyes Mystic State - Mahdi Oxossi - Escher High Plans Drifter - Sholay (Epic mix) Lapo & Ago; Numa Crew - Tuff! Sekkleman; Baptiste - Dancehall Graveyard Von D - Hardcore Dub Music Johny Osbourne - Fally Ranking (V.I.V.E.K. Remix)

Another Kind of Distance: A Spider-Man, Time Travel, Twin Peaks, Film, Grant Morrison and Nostalgia Podcast
The Hollywood Studios, Year-by-Year – Paramount, 1931 – City Streets & An American Tragedy

Another Kind of Distance: A Spider-Man, Time Travel, Twin Peaks, Film, Grant Morrison and Nostalgia Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2019 97:49


On to 1931 and back to Paramount for a Sylvia Sidney double feature: a genre exercise from Mamoulian (CITY STREETS) and a finger exercise from Sternberg (AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY). We debate whether Sternberg's version serves or travesties Dreiser's novel, and whether it matters. Then, the return of Scorsese Corner to discuss TAXI DRIVER, RAGING BULL, and (Dave's favourite Scorsese movie) NEW YORK, NEW YORK. Start spreading the news. Time Codes: 0h 01m 00s:          City Streets (dir. Rouben Mamoulian) 0h 28m 44s:          An American Tragedy (dir. Josef von Sternberg)                           0h 56M 36s:          Fall Cinemagoing Update – Paradise Cinema Opens! (Trouble in Paradise - 1932)                             + Scorsese Corner: Taxi Driver (1976); New York, New York (1977); and Raging Bull (1980) +++ * Check out our Complete Upcoming Episode Schedule * Find Elise’s latest published film piece – “Elaine May’s Male Gaze” – in the Elaine May issue of Bright Wall/Dark Room* *And Read Elise’s Writing at Bright Wall/Dark Room, Cléo, and Bright Lights.* Follow us on Twitter at @therebuggy Write to us at therebuggy@gmail.com Theme Music: “What’s Yr Take on Cassavetes?” – Le Tigre

Dave and Jeb Aren't Mean
062 - The Piglet Level Is Just Rising

Dave and Jeb Aren't Mean

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 24, 2019 75:42


SARAH D. BUNTING's back, and we're gonna get in corrals for 2016's LOVE IN PARADISE and: Pomeranian ... THEME ... Unprepared to get worked up about Luke Perry ... The bone-marrow level of Luke Perry pop-culture weight ... Erred on the side of Priestley ... A very generous actor and good dude ... "We shoulda taken him more seriously" ... You can legally punch Brian Austin Greene ... The Luke Perry Kidding-The-Material Rating ... The face does the work ... Two 90210 eras ... I got the job squinting ... BREAK ... The Expositional Challenge: Professionalism defined ... Plot mop-up: How is he doing ranch events; exposed by a high-school journalist; Max Headroom, Large Animal Doctor; Michael Moriarty; you gotta keep beefing with Janet Reno; coastal ex ... "This was not bad" ... A rustler named "Guthrie"? ... A qualitative difference in one-off movies ... The Wedding March: Failing to wink at bio material ... Surprisingly tart (Pompeii), surprisingly sexual (barn) ... Exchanging butt glances ... BREAK ... Spot the Angel: Curly the Pig, Familiar ... Murder by Death callback ... The pig *is* the Pomeranian ... Farmer Lev's Pastoral Hoedown: The binary opposition throughout history; red states, Harlequin, Dreiser and Lewis; Yankee fan in Montana with fake crickets; steak, chili and blueberry pie; "city slicker"; desaturated apartment; unlicensed to drive; comparing scars; Pomeranian pillow ... BREAK ... Eat Your Heart Out: Sushi and Food Network; pre-cool my steak, thanks; chili cook-off; farties fuel, Nora! ... Hallmark Expanded Universe: Wedding March, 1885 vs. Inventory exchange among failing dude ranches ... Overdetermined: Max Headroom's "It's the H-H-Heart" vs. That's not how trails work ... Health food store creepin' ... Crossover: SVU investigating on-set of Aim to Please and the squint-off vs. Home Is Where the H-H-Heart is vs. Max Headroom answering bunnies vs. The Magnificent One vs. Avery Ford, Humane Westworlder ... Again with This note: Working Shadowcaster ... The Grand Unifying Theory of Munch ... BREAK ... Rating: 4.5 ... Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Guthries ... Take Heather's story out of her father's mouth ... Make Heather's ex Guthrie ... The Leftovers: Seeing a man about a TV ... Bundy toilet ... Saying the name of the movie in the movie ... "You wouldn't know him, he's Canadian" ... Young Tom Steyer: I'm Guthrie, and I learned my lesson ... I reversed a crime with the exact skills you taught me! ... Young Luke Perry impressionist ... Buttercup ... Logrolling in our time ... Merry Christmas ... • MUSIC: "Fuck You If You Don't Like Christmas," from Crudbump, by Drew Fairweather • "Theme from Beverly Hills 90210," by John Davis • All other music by Chris Collingwood of Look Park and Fountains of Wayne, except: "Orchestral Sports Theme" by Chris Collingwood and Rick Murnane

StoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups
138: Theodore Dreiser: "Sister Carrie"

StoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2017 43:35


This week on StoryWeb: Theodore Dreiser’s novel Sister Carrie. In 1899, as the soon-to-be-novelist Theodore Dreiser was starting work on Sister Carrie, he was also working on two articles about America’s up-and-coming photographer Alfred Stieglitz. Impressed by Stieglitz’s realistic photography, Dreiser used similar techniques in Sister Carrie, creating “word pictures” to describe city scenes in both Chicago and New York. Relying on photographic elements in these passages, Dreiser emphasized the weather, qualities of light and darkness, and the spectacle aspect of the scenes, thus underlining the stark reality being presented. Born in 1871 in Terre Haute, Indiana, Dreiser worked until 1899 as a newspaper reporter in Chicago, St. Louis, Toledo, Pittsburgh, and New York and then moved on to magazine work. The amount of work he produced for magazines was phenomenal, with 120 pieces appearing in a three-year period. Much of this journalistic work was not of high quality, later earning Dreiser the reputation of being a “hack” writer. But many of the sketches he turned out for both magazines and newspapers evocatively captured city life during the Gilded Age. He brought all this – his love of the emerging field of photography and his fascination with the city – into his creation of his 1900 novel, Sister Carrie. The story of a young Wisconsin woman who heads to the big city to make her mark on the world, the novel is just as much about the two cities it presents: Chicago and New York. Picture after picture of city scenes unfold in the narrative. Many of Dreiser’s word pictures bring to vivid life the cold, snow, and rain – the general gloom and bleakness such unpleasant elements bring. Often these scenes are heavy in their use of black and white, as though the weather had stripped the city of its color. Early in the novel, Dreiser describes Chicago this way: “Once the bright days of summer pass by, a city takes on that sombre garb of grey, wrapt in which it goes about its labours during the long winter. Its endless buildings look grey, its sky and its streets assume a sombre hue; the scattered, leafless trees and wind-blown dust and paper but add to the general solemnity of color.” Similarly, near the end of the novel, Dreiser describes New York City: Already, at four o’clock, the sombre hue of night was thickening the air. A heavy snow was falling – a fine picking, whipping snow, borne forward by a swift wind in long, thin lines. The streets were bedded with it – six inches of cold, soft carpet, churned to a dirty brown by the crush of teams and the feet of men. Along Broadway men picked their way in ulsters and umbrellas. Along the Bowery, men slouched through it with collars and hats pulled over their ears. In the former thoroughfare business men and travelers were making for comfortable hotels. In the latter, crowds on cold errands shifted past dingy stores, in the deep recesses of which lights were already gleaming. There were early lights in the cable cars, whose usual clatter was reduced by the mantle of the wheels. The whole city was muffled by this fast-thickening mantle. With these winter scenes, one can’t help but think of such Stieglitz photographs as The Terminal and Winter, Fifth Avenue, both taken in 1893. So connected are Dreiser and Steiglitz, in fact, that Winter, Fifth Avenue graces the cover of the Norton Critical Edition of Sister Carrie. (If you want a hard copy, this is by all means the version to buy!) In his writings about his approach to fiction, Dreiser said that “True Art Speaks Plainly” (the title of one of his essays). Many years later in an interview, he said that an author needs to be a “sensitive mechanism” so that he can respond to all the life presented to his eyes. “The business of the writer,” he said, “is to hold a mirror up to nature.” Dreiser did that so well for the cities he knew and the people who lived and died in them. To learn more about Dreiser’s life and work, visit Penn Libraries’ Dreiser Web Source, which includes a virtual exhibit on Sister Carrie. I don’t want to give away the intricate and sometimes hair-raising plot of Sister Carrie, but I will say that the Gilded Age is presented in all its gory glory in the rise of its heroine, Carrie Meeber, and the fall of its antihero, Hurstwood. Sister Carrie – named by The Guardian as one of the best 100 novels ever – is a must-read. Visit thestoryweb.com/dreiser for links to all these resources. Listen now as I read Chapter XLV of Sister Carrie. Here, in describing the downfall of Carrie’s former lover, Hurstwood, Dreiser drew heavily on a piece he wrote in 1899 for Demorest’s magazine: “Curious Shifts of the Poor.” It will remind you of Jacob Riis’s photos and writing in How the Other Half Lives as well as Stephen Crane’s magazine sketch “An Experiment in Misery.”     CHAPTER XLV of Theodore Dreiser’s novel Sister Carrie: “CURIOUS SHIFTS OF THE POOR”   The gloomy Hurstwood, sitting in his cheap hotel, where he had taken refuge with seventy dollars--the price of his furniture-- between him and nothing, saw a hot summer out and a cool fall in, reading.  He was not wholly indifferent to the fact that his money was slipping away.  As fifty cents after fifty cents were paid out for a day's lodging he became uneasy, and finally took a cheaper room--thirty-five cents a day--to make his money last longer.  Frequently he saw notices of Carrie.  Her picture was in the "World" once or twice, and an old "Herald" he found in a chair informed him that she had recently appeared with some others at a benefit for something or other.  He read these things with mingled feelings.  Each one seemed to put her farther and farther away into a realm which became more imposing as it receded from him.  On the billboards, too, he saw a pretty poster, showing her as the Quaker Maid, demure and dainty.  More than once he stopped and looked at these, gazing at the pretty face in a sullen sort of way.  His clothes were shabby, and he presented a marked contrast to all that she now seemed to be.           Somehow, so long as he knew she was at the Casino, though he had never any intention of going near her, there was a subconscious comfort for him--he was not quite alone.  The show seemed such a fixture that, after a month or two, he began to take it for granted that it was still running.  In September it went on the road and he did not notice it.  When all but twenty dollars of his money was gone, he moved to a fifteen-cent lodging-house in the Bowery, where there was a bare lounging-room filled with tables and benches as well as some chairs.  Here his preference was to close his eyes and dream of other days, a habit which grew upon him.  It was not sleep at first, but a mental hearkening back to scenes and incidents in his Chicago life.  As the present became darker, the past grew brighter, and all that concerned it stood in relief.        He was unconscious of just how much this habit had hold of him until one day he found his lips repeating an old answer he had made to one of his friends.  They were in Fitzgerald and Moy's. It was as if he stood in the door of his elegant little office, comfortably dressed, talking to Sagar Morrison about the value of South Chicago real estate in which the latter was about to invest.        "How would you like to come in on that with me?" he heard Morrison say.        "Not me," he answered, just as he had years before.  "I have my hands full now."        The movement of his lips aroused him.  He wondered whether he had really spoken.  The next time he noticed anything of the sort he really did talk.        "Why don't you jump, you bloody fool?" he was saying.  "Jump!"        It was a funny English story he was telling to a company of actors.  Even as his voice recalled him, he was smiling.  A crusty old codger, sitting near by, seemed disturbed; at least, he stared in a most pointed way.  Hurstwood straightened up.  The humour of the memory fled in an instant and he felt ashamed.  For relief, he left his chair and strolled out into the streets.        One day, looking down the ad. columns of the "Evening World," he saw where a new play was at the Casino.  Instantly, he came to a mental halt.  Carrie had gone! He remembered seeing a poster of her only yesterday, but no doubt it was one left uncovered by the new signs.  Curiously, this fact shook him up.  He had almost to admit that somehow he was depending upon her being in the city. Now she was gone.  He wondered how this important fact had skipped him.  Goodness knows when she would be back now. Impelled by a nervous fear, he rose and went into the dingy hall,where he counted his remaining money, unseen.  There were but ten dollars in all.        He wondered how all these other lodging-house people around him got along.  They didn't seem to do anything.  Perhaps they begged--unquestionably they did.  Many was the dime he had given to such as they in his day.  He had seen other men asking for money on the streets.  Maybe he could get some that way.  There was horror in this thought.            Sitting in the lodging-house room, he came to his last fifty cents.  He had saved and counted until his health was affected. His stoutness had gone.  With it, even the semblance of a fit in his clothes.  Now he decided he must do something, and, walking about, saw another day go by, bringing him down to his last twenty cents--not enough to eat for the morrow.        Summoning all his courage, he crossed to Broadway and up to the Broadway Central hotel.  Within a block he halted, undecided.  A big, heavy-faced porter was standing at one of the side entrances, looking out.  Hurstwood purposed to appeal to him. Walking straight up, he was upon him before he could turn away.        "My friend," he said, recognising even in his plight the man's inferiority, "is there anything about this hotel that I could get to do?"        The porter stared at him the while he continued to talk.        "I'm out of work and out of money and I've got to get something,-- it doesn't matter what.  I don't care to talk about what I've been, but if you'd tell me how to get something to do, I'd be much obliged to you.  It wouldn't matter if it only lasted a few days just now.  I've got to have something."        The porter still gazed, trying to look indifferent.  Then, seeing that Hurstwood was about to go on, he said:        "I've nothing to do with it.  You'll have to ask inside."        Curiously, this stirred Hurstwood to further effort.        "I thought you might tell me."        The fellow shook his head irritably.        Inside went the ex-manager and straight to an office off the clerk's desk.  One of the managers of the hotel happened to be there.  Hurstwood looked him straight in the eye.        "Could you give me something to do for a few days?" he said. "I'm in a position where I have to get something at once."        The comfortable manager looked at him, as much as to say: "Well, I should judge so."        "I came here," explained Hurstwood, nervously, "because I've been a manager myself in my day.  I've had bad luck in a way but I'm not here to tell you that.  I want something to do, if only for a week."        The man imagined he saw a feverish gleam in the applicant's eye.        "What hotel did you manage?" he inquired.        "It wasn't a hotel," said Hurstwood.  "I was manager of Fitzgerald and Moy's place in Chicago for fifteen years."        "Is that so?" said the hotel man.  "How did you come to get out of that?"        The figure of Hurstwood was rather surprising in contrast to the fact.        "Well, by foolishness of my own.  It isn't anything to talk about now.  You could find out if you wanted to.  I'm 'broke' now and, if you will believe me, I haven't eaten anything to-day."        The hotel man was slightly interested in this story.  He could hardly tell what to do with such a figure, and yet Hurstwood's earnestness made him wish to do something.        "Call Olsen," he said, turning to the clerk.        In reply to a bell and a disappearing hall-boy, Olsen, the head porter, appeared.        "Olsen," said the manager, "is there anything downstairs you could find for this man to do? I'd like to give him something."        "I don't know, sir," said Olsen.  "We have about all the help we need.  I think I could find something, sir, though, if you like."        "Do.  Take him to the kitchen and tell Wilson to give him something to eat."        "All right, sir," said Olsen.        Hurstwood followed.  Out of the manager's sight, the head porter's manner changed.        "I don't know what the devil there is to do," he observed.        Hurstwood said nothing.  To him the big trunk hustler was a subject for private contempt.        "You're to give this man something to eat," he observed to the cook.        The latter looked Hurstwood over, and seeing something keen and intellectual in his eyes, said:        "Well, sit down over there."        Thus was Hurstwood installed in the Broadway Central, but not for long.  He was in no shape or mood to do the scrub work that exists about the foundation of every hotel.  Nothing better offering, he was set to aid the fireman, to work about the basement, to do anything and everything that might offer. Porters, cooks, firemen, clerks--all were over him.  Moreover his appearance did not please these individuals--his temper was toolonely--and they made it disagreeable for him.        With the stolidity and indifference of despair, however, he endured it all, sleeping in an attic at the roof of the house, eating what the cook gave him, accepting a few dollars a week, which he tried to save.  His constitution was in no shape to endure.        One day the following February he was sent on an errand to a large coal company's office.  It had been snowing and thawing and the streets were sloppy.  He soaked his shoes in his progress and came back feeling dull and weary.  All the next day he felt unusually depressed and sat about as much as possible, to the irritation of those who admired energy in others.        In the afternoon some boxes were to be moved to make room for new culinary supplies.  He was ordered to handle a truck. Encountering a big box, he could not lift it.        "What's the matter there?" said the head porter.  "Can't you handle it?"        He was straining to lift it, but now he quit.        "No," he said, weakly.        The man looked at him and saw that he was deathly pale.        "Not sick, are you?" he asked. "I think I am," returned Hurstwood.        "Well, you'd better go sit down, then."        This he did, but soon grew rapidly worse.  It seemed all he could do to crawl to his room, where he remained for a day.        "That man Wheeler's sick," reported one of the lackeys to the night clerk.        "What's the matter with him?"        "I don't know.  He's got a high fever."        The hotel physician looked at him.        "Better send him to Bellevue," he recommended.  "He's got pneumonia."        Accordingly, he was carted away.        In three weeks the worst was over, but it was nearly the first of May before his strength permitted him to be turned out.  Then he was discharged.        No more weakly looking object ever strolled out into the spring sunshine than the once hale, lusty manager.  All his corpulency had fled.  His face was thin and pale, his hands white, his body flabby.  Clothes and all, he weighed but one hundred and thirty- five pounds.  Some old garments had been given him--a cheap brown coat and misfit pair of trousers.  Also some change and advice. He was told to apply to the charities.        Again he resorted to the Bowery lodging-house, brooding over where to look.  From this it was but a step to beggary.        "What can a man do?" he said.  "I can't starve."        His first application was in sunny Second Avenue.  A well-dressed man came leisurely strolling toward him out of Stuyvesant Park. Hurstwood nerved himself and sidled near.        "Would you mind giving me ten cents?" he said, directly.  "I'm in a position where I must ask some one."      The man scarcely looked at him, fished in his vest pocket and took out a dime.        "There you are," he said.        "Much obliged," said Hurstwood, softly, but the other paid no more attention to him.        Satisfied with his success and yet ashamed of his situation, he decided that he would only ask for twenty-five cents more, since that would be sufficient.  He strolled about sizing up people, but it was long before just the right face and situation arrived. When he asked, he was refused.  Shocked by this result, he took an hour to recover and then asked again.  This time a nickel was given him.  By the most watchful effort he did get twenty cents more, but it was painful.        The next day he resorted to the same effort, experiencing a variety of rebuffs and one or two generous receptions.  At last it crossed his mind that there was a science of faces, and that a man could pick the liberal countenance if he tried.        It was no pleasure to him, however, this stopping of passers-by. He saw one man taken up for it and now troubled lest he should be arrested.  Nevertheless, he went on, vaguely anticipating that indefinite something which is always better.        It was with a sense of satisfaction, then, that he saw announced one morning the return of the Casino Company, "with Miss Carrie Madenda." He had thought of her often enough in days past.  How successful she was--how much money she must have! Even now, however, it took a severe run of ill luck to decide him to appeal to her.  He was truly hungry before he said:        "I'll ask her.  She won't refuse me a few dollars."        Accordingly, he headed for the Casino one afternoon, passing it several times in an effort to locate the stage entrance.  Then he sat in Bryant Park, a block away, waiting.  "She can't refuse to help me a little," he kept saying to himself.        Beginning with half-past six, he hovered like a shadow about the Thirty-ninth Street entrance, pretending always to be a hurrying pedestrian and yet fearful lest he should miss his object.  He was slightly nervous, too, now that the eventful hour had arrived; but being weak and hungry, his ability to suffer was modified.  At last he saw that the actors were beginning to arrive, and his nervous tension increased, until it seemed as if he could not stand much more.        Once he thought he saw Carrie coming and moved forward, only to see that he was mistaken.        "She can't be long, now," he said to himself, half fearing to encounter her and equally depressed at the thought that she might have gone in by another way.  His stomach was so empty that it ached.        Individual after individual passed him, nearly all well dressed, almost all indifferent.  He saw coaches rolling by, gentlemen passing with ladies--the evening's merriment was beginning in this region of theatres and hotels.        Suddenly a coach rolled up and the driver jumped down to open the door.  Before Hurstwood could act, two ladies flounced across the broad walk and disappeared in the stage door.  He thought he saw Carrie, but it was so unexpected, so elegant and far away, he could hardly tell.  He waited a while longer, growing feverish with want, and then seeing that the stage door no longer opened, and that a merry audience was arriving, he concluded it must have been Carrie and turned away.        "Lord," he said, hastening out of the street into which the more fortunate were pouring, "I've got to get something."           At that hour, when Broadway is wont to assume its most interesting aspect, a peculiar individual invariably took his stand at the corner of Twenty-sixth Street and Broadway--a spot which is also intersected by Fifth Avenue.  This was the hour when the theatres were just beginning to receive their patrons. Fire signs announcing the night's amusements blazed on every hand.  Cabs and carriages, their lamps gleaming like yellow eyes,pattered by.  Couples and parties of three and four freely mingled in the common crowd, which poured by in a thick stream, laughing and jesting.  On Fifth Avenue were loungers--a few wealthy strollers, a gentleman in evening dress with his lady on his arm, some club-men passing from one smoking-room to another. Across the way the great hotels showed a hundred gleaming windows, their cafes and billiard-rooms filled with acomfortable, well-dressed, and pleasure-loving throng.  All about was the night, pulsating with the thoughts of pleasure and exhilaration--the curious enthusiasm of a great city bent upon finding joy in a thousand different ways.        This unique individual was no less than an ex-soldier turned religionist, who, having suffered the whips and privations of our peculiar social system, had concluded that his duty to the God which he conceived lay in aiding his fellow-man.  The form of aid which he chose to administer was entirely original with himself. It consisted of securing a bed for all such homeless wayfarers as should apply to him at this particular spot, though he had scarcely the wherewithal to provide a comfortable habitation for himself.  Taking his place amid this lightsome atmosphere, he would stand, his stocky figure cloaked in a great cape overcoat, his head protected by a broad slouch hat, awaiting the applicants who had in various ways learned the nature of his charity.  For a while he would stand alone, gazing like any idler upon an ever- fascinating scene.  On the evening in question, a policeman passing saluted him as "captain," in a friendly way.  An urchin who had frequently seen him before, stopped to gaze.  All others took him for nothing out of the ordinary, save in the matter of dress, and conceived of him as a stranger whistling and idling for his own amusement.        As the first half-hour waned, certain characters appeared.  Here and there in the passing crowds one might see, now and then, a loiterer edging interestedly near.  A slouchy figure crossed the opposite corner and glanced furtively in his direction.  Another came down Fifth Avenue to the corner of Twenty-sixth Street, took a general survey, and hobbled off again.  Two or three noticeable Bowery types edged along the Fifth Avenue side of Madison Square, but did not venture over.  The soldier, in his cape overcoat, walked a short line of ten feet at his corner, to and fro,indifferently whistling.          As nine o'clock approached, some of the hubbub of the earlier hour passed.  The atmosphere of the hotels was not so youthful. The air, too, was colder.  On every hand curious figures were moving--watchers and peepers, without an imaginary circle, which they seemed afraid to enter--a dozen in all.  Presently, with the arrival of a keener sense of cold, one figure came forward.  It crossed Broadway from out the shadow of Twenty-sixth Street, and, in a halting, circuitous way, arrived close to the waiting figure.  There was something shamefaced or diffident about themovement, as if the intention were to conceal any idea of stopping until the very last moment.  Then suddenly, close to the soldier, came the halt.        The captain looked in recognition, but there was no especial greeting.  The newcomer nodded slightly and murmured something like one who waits for gifts.  The other simply motioned to-ward the edge of the walk.        "Stand over there," he said.        By this the spell was broken.  Even while the soldier resumed his short, solemn walk, other figures shuffled forward.  They did not so much as greet the leader, but joined the one, sniffling and hitching and scraping their feet.        "Gold, ain't it?"        "I'm glad winter's over."        "Looks as though it might rain."        The motley company had increased to ten.  One or two knew each other and conversed.  Others stood off a few feet, not wishing to be in the crowd and yet not counted out.  They were peevish, crusty, silent, eying nothing in particular and moving their feet.        There would have been talking soon, but the soldier gave them no chance.  Counting sufficient to begin, he came forward.        "Beds, eh, all of you?"        There was a general shuffle and murmur of approval.        "Well, line up here.  I'll see what I can do.  I haven't a cent myself."        They fell into a sort of broken, ragged line.  One might see, now, some of the chief characteristics by contrast.  There was a wooden leg in the line.  Hats were all drooping, a group that would ill become a second-hand Hester Street basement collection. Trousers were all warped and frayed at the bottom and coats worn and faded.  In the glare of the store lights, some of the faces looked dry and chalky; others were red with blotches and puffed in the cheeks and under the eyes; one or two were rawboned and reminded one of railroad hands.  A few spectators came near, drawn by the seemingly conferring group, then more and more, and quickly there was a pushing, gaping crowd.  Some one in the line began to talk.        "Silence!" exclaimed the captain.  "Now, then, gentlemen, these men are without beds.  They have to have some place to sleep to- night.  They can't lie out in the streets.  I need twelve cents to put one of them to bed.  Who will give it to me?"        No reply.        "Well, we'll have to wait here, boys, until some one does. Twelve cents isn't so very much for one man."        "Here's fifteen," exclaimed a young man, peering forward with strained eyes.  "It's all I can afford."        "All right.  Now I have fifteen.  Step out of the line," and seizing one by the shoulder, the captain marched him off a little way and stood him up alone.        Coming back, he resumed his place and began again.        "I have three cents left.  These men must be put to bed somehow. There are"--counting--"one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve men.  Nine cents more will put the next man to bed; give him a good, comfortable bed for the night.  I go right along and look after that myself.  Who will give me nine cents?"        One of the watchers, this time a middle-aged man, handed him a five-cent piece.        "Now, I have eight cents.  Four more will give this man a bed. Come, gentlemen.  We are going very slow this evening.  You all have good beds.  How about these?"        "Here you are," remarked a bystander, putting a coin into his hand.        "That," said the captain, looking at the coin, "pays for two beds for two men and gives me five on the next one.  Who will give me seven cents more?"        "I will," said a voice.        Coming down Sixth Avenue this evening, Hurstwood chanced to cross east through Twenty-sixth Street toward Third Avenue.  He was wholly disconsolate in spirit, hungry to what he deemed an almost mortal extent, weary, and defeated.  How should he get at Carrie now? It would be eleven before the show was over.  If she came in a coach, she would go away in one.  He would need to interrupt under most trying circumstances.  Worst of all, he was hungry and weary, and at best a whole day must intervene, for he had not heart to try again to-night.  He had no food and no bed.        When he neared Broadway, he noticed the captain's gathering of wanderers, but thinking it to be the result of a street preacher or some patent medicine fakir, was about to pass on.  However, in crossing the street toward Madison Square Park, he noticed the line of men whose beds were already secured, stretching out from the main body of the crowd.  In the glare of the neighbouring electric light he recognised a type of his own kind--the figures whom he saw about the streets and in the lodging-houses, drifting in mind and body like himself.  He wondered what it could be and turned back.        There was the captain curtly pleading as before.  He heard with astonishment and a sense of relief the oft-repeated words: "These men must have a bed." Before him was the line of unfortunates whose beds were yet to be had, and seeing a newcomer quietly edge up and take a position at the end of the line, he decided to do likewise.  What use to contend? He was weary to-night.  It was a simple way out of one difficulty, at least.  To-morrow, maybe, he would do better.        Back of him, where some of those were whose beds were safe, a relaxed air was apparent.  The strain of uncertainty being removed, he heard them talking with moderate freedom and some leaning toward sociability.  Politics, religion, the state of the government, some newspaper sensations, and the more notorious facts the world over, found mouthpieces and auditors there. Cracked and husky voices pronounced forcibly upon odd matters.Vague and rambling observations were made in reply.        There were squints, and leers, and some dull, ox-like stares from those who were too dull or too weary to converse.        Standing tells.  Hurstwood became more weary waiting.  He thought he should drop soon and shifted restlessly from one foot to the other.  At last his turn came.  The man ahead had been paid for and gone to the blessed line of success.  He was now first, and already the captain was talking for him.        "Twelve cents, gentlemen--twelve cents puts this man to bed.  He wouldn't stand here in the cold if he had any place to go."        Hurstwood swallowed something that rose to his throat.  Hunger and weakness had made a coward of him.        "Here you are," said a stranger, handing money to the captain.        Now the latter put a kindly hand on the ex-manager's shoulder. "Line up over there," he said.        Once there, Hurstwood breathed easier.  He felt as if the world were not quite so bad with such a good man in it.  Others seemed to feel like himself about this.        "Captain's a great feller, ain't he?" said the man ahead--a little, woebegone, helpless-looking sort of individual, who looked as though he had ever been the sport and care of fortune.        "Yes," said Hurstwood, indifferently.        "Huh! there's a lot back there yet," said a man farther up, leaning out and looking back at the applicants for whom the captain was pleading.        "Yes.  Must be over a hundred to-night," said another.        "Look at the guy in the cab," observed a third.        A cab had stopped.  Some gentleman in evening dress reached out a bill to the captain, who took it with simple thanks and turned away to his line.  There was a general craning of necks as the jewel in the white shirt front sparkled and the cab moved off. Even the crowd gaped in awe.        "That fixes up nine men for the night," said the captain, counting out as many of the line near him.  "Line up over there. Now, then, there are only seven.  I need twelve cents."        Money came slowly.  In the course of time the crowd thinned out to a meagre handful.  Fifth Avenue, save for an occasional cab or foot passenger, was bare.  Broadway was thinly peopled with pedestrians.  Only now and then a stranger passing noticed the small group, handed out a coin, and went away, unheeding.        The captain remained stolid and determined.  He talked on, very slowly, uttering the fewest words and with a certain assurance, as though he could not fail.        "Come; I can't stay out here all night.  These men are getting tired and cold.  Some one give me four cents."        There came a time when he said nothing at all.  Money was handed him, and for each twelve cents he singled out a man and put him in the other line.  Then he walked up and down as before, looking at the ground.        The theatres let out.  Fire signs disappeared.  A clock struck eleven.  Another half-hour and he was down to the last two men.        "Come, now," he exclaimed to several curious observers; "eighteen cents will fix us all up for the night.  Eighteen cents.  I have six.  Somebody give me the money.  Remember, I have to go over to Brooklyn yet to-night.  Before that I have to take these men down and put them to bed.  Eighteen cents."        No one responded.  He walked to and fro, looking down for several minutes, occasionally saying softly: "Eighteen cents." It seemed as if this paltry sum would delay the desired culmination longer than all the rest had.  Hurstwood, buoyed up slightly by the long line of which he was a part, refrained with an effort from groaning, he was so weak.        At last a lady in opera cape and rustling skirts came down Fifth Avenue, accompanied by her escort.  Hurstwood gazed wearily, reminded by her both of Carrie in her new world and of the time when he had escorted his own wife in like manner.        While he was gazing, she turned and, looking at the remarkable company, sent her escort over.  He came, holding a bill in his fingers, all elegant and graceful.        "Here you are," he said.        "Thanks," said the captain, turning to the two remaining applicants.  "Now we have some for to-morrow night," he added.        Therewith he lined up the last two and proceeded to the head, counting as he went.        "One hundred and thirty-seven," he announced.  "Now, boys, line up.  Right dress there.  We won't be much longer about this. Steady, now."        He placed himself at the head and called out "Forward." Hurstwood moved with the line.  Across Fifth Avenue, through Madison Square by the winding paths, east on Twenty-third Street, and down Third Avenue wound the long, serpentine company.  Midnight pedestrians and loiterers stopped and stared as the company passed.  Chatting policemen, at various corners, stared indifferently or nodded to the leader, whom they had seen before.  On Third Avenue they marched, a seemingly weary way, to Eighth Street, where there was a lodginghouse, closed, apparently, for the night.  They were expected, however.        Outside in the gloom they stood, while the leader parleyed within.  Then doors swung open and they were invited in with a "Steady, now."        Some one was at the head showing rooms, so that there was no delay for keys.  Toiling up the creaky stairs, Hurstwood looked back and saw the captain, watching; the last one of the line being included in his broad solicitude.  Then he gathered his cloak about him and strolled out into the night.        "I can't stand much of this," said Hurstwood, whose legs ached him painfully, as he sat down upon the miserable bunk in the small, lightless chamber allotted to him.  "I've got to eat, or I'll die."   

StoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups
137: Stephen Crane: "An Experiment in Misery"

StoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2017 38:45


This week on StoryWeb: Stephen Crane’s article “An Experiment in Misery.” Many Americans know Stephen Crane as the author of the Civil War novel, The Red Badge of Courage, which made Crane famous at the age of 23 when it was serialized in 1894. It was published as a full-length book in 1895. Some know his first novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, or even the harrowing short story “The Open Boat,” based on a real-life experience when Crane was en route to Cuba and spent 30 hours adrift with others in a lifeboat. Less well-known to most readers is Crane’s work as a journalist. Born in 1871 in Newark, New Jersey, Crane floundered around from college (which he didn’t finish) to one vocational pursuit after another. When he found himself drawn to New York City in the 1890s and took work as a newspaper writer, he appeared to have found his calling. Crane would make a peripatetic living for the rest of his short life as a fiction writer and correspondent from various locations throughout the western hemisphere. He filed stories from the Western United States, from Mexico City, from Cuba during the Spanish-American War, and from the Greco-Turkish War front in Greece, where he was joined in his writing by his common-law wife, Cora Crane, recognized as the first woman war correspondent. Stephen Crane died at age 28 of tuberculosis. But it’s Crane’s writing about New York City in the 1890s that interests me. Working from a home base in nearby Paterson, New Jersey, he made frequent day trips into New York City and spent considerable time in the tenement districts and especially the Bowery. Eventually, he moved into a rooming house in Manhattan. Thus, Crane was one of the journalists – writers, photographers, illustrators – who were on the streets at the height of the Gilded Age. Like Jacob Riis in How the Other Half Lives and like Alfred Stieglitz in such photographs as The Terminal and Winter, Fifth Avenue, Crane offers us a view into New York life at this crucial time in its history. Perhaps Crane’s most famous piece of journalism is “An Experiment in Misery,” which was first published in 1894 in the New York Press and, in a slightly revised version, as part of The Open Boat and Other Tales of Adventure, a volume Crane published in 1898. In this piece – which to today’s readers will read more like a sketch or even a short story than an objective work of “journalism” – Crane imagines what it would be like to disguise oneself as a Bowery bum and go undercover to explore the realities of that grim life. The lengthy headline tells you all you need to know about journalistic style in the 1890s: AN EXPERIMENT IN MISERY An Evening, a Night and a Morning with Those Cast Out. THE TRAMP LIVES LIKE A KING But His Royalty, to the Novitiate, Has Drawbacks of Smells and Bugs. LODGED WITH AN ASSASSIN A Wonderfully Vivid Picture of a Strange Phase of New York Life, Written for “The Press” by the Author of “Maggie.” Newspaper articles on “indigent Americans and the ‘Tramp Menace,’” says the Library of America’s Story of the Week website, were common during the late nineteenth century. A few reporters actually did dress as bums and explore their haunts, but apparently Crane did not himself conduct such an experiment. He did, however, base the imagined experiment on his real-life knowledge of the Bowery, a once-fashionable neighborhood in southern Manhattan now home to saloons, brothels, and rapidly increasing numbers of homeless people in New York City. The result is a vivid account of life as a Bowery bum, as homeless men were known at the time. Just as Crane had never been a soldier in a war yet imagined the Civil War more vividly and “realistically” than any other writer up to that time, so, too, he used his considerable skills of observation and his imagination to conjure up what it would be like to live as a homeless man in New York City. As it turns out, Crane may have had too much exposure to life in the Bowery. Crane spent time, says one source, in the “saloons, dance halls, brothels and flophouses” of the Bowery. While he claimed he did so for research, his scandalous involvement with prostitutes and madams (most notably Cora Crane, who was operating the Hotel de Dream when Crane met her in Jacksonville, Florida) and other close dealings with the shadier set suggests that Crane was personally drawn to these seedy elements that were so far from his strict upbringing among Methodist ministers and temperance leaders. He said once that the slums were “open and plain, with nothing hidden,” and he seemed to find solace in that. You can read the original version of “An Experiment in Misery” at WikiSource. Unlike the later version published in The Open Boat and Other Tales of Adventure, the original version published in the newspaper included a “Foreword” and a “Coda” explaining that the sketch presented is an experiment, that a young man disguises himself as a bum to experience that life directly for himself. To read the version published in The Open Boat, get your hands on a copy of Crane: Prose and Poetry, the outstanding collection published by the Library of America. To learn more about Crane, read the New Yorker’s article “The Red and the Scarlet: The Hectic Career of Stephen Crane.” If you want to go into depth in your exploration of Crane, you can read Paul Sorrentino’s biography, Stephen Crane: A Life of Fire, which tells the story of how Sorrentino and scholar Stanley Wertheim delved deeply into Crane research and archives to debunk common, longstanding myths about Crane. Although Crane’s writing fell into obscurity for some time after his death, interest in his work was resurrected in the 1920s. He had a particularly strong influence on Ernest Hemingway, who himself was a journalist and a novelist of war. Next week, I’ll feature a novel by another journalist-turned-novelist: Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser. Published in 1900, it is perhaps the masterpiece of the Gilded Age. Tune in next week to learn how Dreiser pulled together the work of Riis, Stieglitz, and Crane to create a complex, multifaceted novel. Visit thestoryweb.com/crane for links to all these resources. Listen now as I read “An Experiment in Misery,” as originally published in the New York Press in 1894.   “Foreword” Two men stood regarding a tramp. "I wonder how he feels," said one, reflectively. "I suppose he is homeless, friendless, and has, at the most, only a few cents in his pocket. And if this is so, I wonder how he feels." The other being the elder, spoke with an air of authoritative wisdom. "You can tell nothing of it unless you are in that condition yourself. It is idle to speculate about it from this distance." "I suppose so," said the younger man, and then he added as from an inspiration: "I think I'll try it. Rags and tatters, you know, a couple of dimes, and hungry, too, if possible. Perhaps I could discover his point of view or something near it." "Well, you might," said the other, and from those words begins this veracious narrative of an experiment in misery. The youth went to the studio of an artist friend, who, from his store, rigged him out in an aged suit and a brown derby hat that had been made long years before. And then the youth went forth to try to eat as the tramp may eat, and sleep as the wanderers sleep.       “An Experiment in Misery” It was late at night, and a fine rain was swirling softly down, causing the pavements to glisten with hue of steel and blue and yellow in the rays of the innumerable lights. A youth was trudging slowly, without enthusiasm, with his hands buried deep in his trouser's pockets, towards the down-town places where beds can be hired for coppers. He was clothed in an aged and tattered suit, and his derby was a marvel of dust-covered crown and torn rim. He was going forth to eat as the wanderer may eat, and sleep as the homeless sleep. By the time he had reached City Hall Park he was so completely plastered with yells of "bum" and "hobo," and with various unholy epithets that small boyshad applied to him at intervals, that he was in a state of the most profound dejection. The sifting rain saturated the old velvet collar of his overcoat, and as the wet cloth pressed against his neck, he felt that there no longer could be pleasure in life. He looked about him searching for an outcast of highest degree that they too might share miseries, but the lights threw a quivering glare over rows and circles of deserted benches that glistened damply, showing patches of wet sod behind them. It seemed that their usual freights had fled on this night to better things. There were only squads of well-dressed Brooklyn people who swarmed towards the bridge. The young man loitered about for a time and then went shuffling off down Park Row. In the sudden descent in style of the dress of the crowd he felt relief, and as if he were at last in his own country. He began to see tatters that matched his tatters. In Chatham Square there were aimless men strewn in front of saloons and lodging-houses, standing sadly, patiently, reminding one vaguely of the attitudes of chickens in a storm. He aligned himself with these men, and turned slowly to occupy himself with the flowing life of the great street.     Through the mists of the cold and storming night, the cable cars went in silent procession, great affairs shining with red and brass, moving with formidable power, calm and irresistible, dangerful and gloomy, breaking silence only by the loud fierce cry of the gong. Two rivers of people swarmed along the side walks, spattered with black mud, which made each shoe leave a scar-like impression. Overhead elevated trains with a shrill grinding of the wheels stopped at the station, which upon its leg-like pillars seemed to resemble some monstrous kind of crab squatting over the street. The quick fat puffings of the engines could be heard. Down an alley there were sombre curtains of purple and black, on which street lamps dully glittered like embroidered flowers. A saloon stood with a voracious air on a corner. A sign leaning against the front of the door-post announced "Free hot soup to-night!" The swing doors, snapping to and fro like ravenous lips, made gratified smacks as the saloon gorged itself with plump men, eating with astounding and endless appetite, smiling in some indescribable manner as the men came from all directions like sacrifices to a heathenish superstition. Caught by the delectable sign the young man allowed himself to be swallowed. A bar-tender placed a schooner of dark and portentous beer on the bar. Its monumental form upreared until the froth a-top was above the crown of the young man's brown derby.     "Soup over there, gents," said the bar-tender affably. A little yellow man in rags and the youth grasped their schooners and went with speed toward a lunch counter, where a man with oily but imposing whiskers ladled genially from a kettle until he had furnished his two mendicants with a soup that was steaming hot, and in which there were little floating suggestions of chicken. The young man, sipping his broth, felt the cordiality expressed by the warmth of the mixture, and he beamed at the man with oily but imposing whiskers, who was presiding like a priest behind an altar. "Have some more, gents?" he inquired of the two sorry figures before him. The little yellow man accepted with a swift gesture, but the youth shook his head and went out, following a man whose wondrous seediness promised that he would have a knowledge of cheap lodging-houses. On the side-walk he accosted the seedy man. "Say, do you know a cheap place to sleep?" The other hesitated for a time gazing sideways. Finally he nodded in the direction of the street, "I sleep up there," he said, "when I've got the price." "How much?" "Ten cents." The young man shook his head dolefully. "That's too rich for me." At that moment there approached the two a reeling man in strange garments. His head was a fuddle of bushy hair and whiskers, from which his eyes peered with a guilty slant. In a close scrutiny it was possible to distinguish the cruel lines of a mouth which looked as if its lips had just closed with satisfaction over some tender and piteous morsel. He appeared like an assassin steeped in crimes performed awkwardly. But at this time his voice was tuned to the coaxing key of an affectionate puppy. He looked at the men with wheedling eyes, and began to sing a little melody for charity.     "Say, gents, can't yeh give a poor feller a couple of cents t' git a bed. I got five, and I gits anudder two I gits me a bad. Now, on th' square, gents, can't yeh jest gimme two cents t' git a bed? Now, yeh know how a respecter'ble gentlm'n feels when he's down on his luck, an' I--" The seedy man, staring imperturbable countenance at a train which clattered oerhead, interrupted in an expressionless voice--"Ah, go t' h--!" But the youth spoke to the prayerful assassin in tones of astonishment and inquiry. "Say, you must be crazy! Why don't yeh strike somebody that looks as if they had money?" The assassin, tottering about on his uncertain legs, and at intervals brushing imaginary obstacles from before his nose, entered into a long explanation of the psychology of the situation. It was so profound that it was unintelligible. When he had exhausted the subject, the young man said to him-- "Let's see th' five cents." The assassin wore an expression of drunken woe at this sentence, filled with suspicion of him. With a deeply pained air he began to fumble in his clothing, his red hands trembling. Presently he announced in a voice of bitter grief, as if he had been betrayed--"There's on'y four." "Four," said the young man thoughtfully. "Well, look-a-here, I'm a stranger here, an' if ye'll steer me to your cheap joint I'll find the other three." The assassin's countenance became instantly radiant with joy. His whiskers quivered with the wealth of his alleged emotions. He seized the young man's hand in a transport of delight and friendliness. "B' Gawd," he cried, "if ye'll do that, b' Gawd, I'd say yeh was a damned good fellow, I would, an' I'd remember yeh all m' life, I would, b' Gawd, an' if I ever got a chance I'd return the compliment"--he spoke with drunken dignity,--"b' Gawd, I'd treat yeh white, I would, an' I'd allus remember yeh." The young man drew back, looking at the assassin coldly. "Oh, that's all right," he said. "You show me th' joint--that's all youv'e got t' do." The assassin, gesticulating gratitude, led the young man along a dark street. Finally he stopped before a little dusty door. He raised his hand impressively. "Look-a-here," he said, and there was a thrill of deep and ancient wisdom upon his face, "I've brought yeh here, an' that's my part, ain't it? If th' place don't suit yeh, yeh needn't git mad at me, need yeh? There won't be no bad feelin', will there?" "No," said the young man. The assassin waved his arm tragically, and led the march up the steep stairway. On the way the young man furnished the assassin with three pennies. At the top a man with benevolent spectacles looked at them through a hole in a board. he collected their money, wrote some names on a register, and speedily was leading the two men along a gloom-shrouded corridor. Shortly after the beginning of this journey the young man felt his liver turn white, for from the dark and secret places of the building there suddenly came to his nostrils strange and unspeakable odors, that assailed him like malignant diseases with wings. They seemed to be from human bodies closely packed in dens; the exhalations from a hundred pairs of reeking lips; the fumes from a thousand bygone debauches; the expression of a thousand present miseries. A man, naked save for a little snuff-coloured under-shirt, was parading sleepily along the corridor. He rubbed his eyes, and, giving vent to a prodigious yawn, demanded to be told the time. "Half-past one." The man yawned again. He opened a door, and for a moment his form was outlined against a black, opaque interior. To this door came the three men, and as it was again opened the unholy odours rushed out like fiends, so that the young man was obliged to struggle against an overpowering wind. It was some time before the youth's eyes were good in the intense gloom within, but the man with benevolent spectacles led him skilfully, pausing but a moment to deposit the limp assassin upon a cot. He took the youth to a coat that lay tranquilly by the window, and showing him a tall locker for clothes that stood near the head with the ominous air of a tombstone, left him. The youth sat on his cot and peered about him. There was a gas-jet in a distant part of the room, that burned a small flickering orange-hued flame. It caused vast masses of tumbled shadows in all parts of the place, save where, immediately about it, there was a little grey haze. As the young man's eyes became used to the darkness, he could see upon the cots that thickly littered the floor the forms of men sprawled out, lying in death-like silence, or heaving and snoring with tremendous effort, like stabbed fish. The youth locked his derby and his shoes in the mummy case near him, and then lay down with an old and familiar coat around his shoulders. A blanket he handled gingerly, drawing it over part of the coat. The cot was covered with leather, and as cold as melting snow. The youth was obliged to shiver for some time on this affair, which was like a slab. Presently, however, his chill gave him peace, and during this period of leisure from it he turned his head to stare at his friend the assassin, whom he could dimly discern where he lay sprawled on a coat in the abandon of a man filled with drink. He was snoring with incredible vigour. His wet hair and beard dimly glistened, and his inflamed nose shone with subdued lustre like a red light in a fog.     Within reach of the youth's hand was one who lay with yellow breast and shoulders bare to the cold drafts. One arm hung over the side of the cot, and the fingers lay full length upon the wet cement floor of the room. Beneath the inky brows could be seen the eyes of the man exposed by the partly opened lids. To the youth it seemed that he and this corpse-like being were exchanging a prolonged stare, and that the other threatened with his eyes. He drew back watching his neighbour from the shadows of his blanket edge. The man did not move once through the night, but lay in this stillness as of death like a body stretched out expectant of the surgeon's knife. And all through the room could be seen the tawny hues of naked flesh, limbs thrust into the darkness, projecting beyond the cots; upreared knees, arms hanging long and thin over the cot edges. For the most part they were statuesque, carven, dead. With the curious lockers standing all about like tombstones, there was a strange effect of a graveyard where bodies were merely flung. Yet occasionally could be seen limbs wildly tossing in fantastic nightmare gestures, accompanied by guttural cries, grunts, oaths. And there was one fellow off in a gloomy corner, who in his dreams was oppressed by some frightful calamity, for of a sudden he began to utter long wails that went almost like yells from a hound, echoing wailfully and weird through this chill place of tombstones where men lay like the dead.     The sound in its high piercing beginnings, that dwindled to final melancholy moans, expressed a red grim tragedy of the unfathomable possibilities of the man's dreams. But to the youth these were not merely the shrieks of a vision-pierced man: they were an utterance of the meaning of the room and its occupants. It was to him the protest of the wretch who feels the touch of the imperturbable granite wheels, and who then cries with an impersonal eloquence, with a strength not from him, giving voice to the wail of a whole section, a class, a people. This, weaving into the young man's brain, and mingling with his views of the vast and sombre shadows that, like mighty black fingers, curled around the naked bodies, made the young man so that he did not sleep, but lay carving the biographies for these men from his meagre experience. At times the fellow in the corner howled in a writing agony of his imaginations. Finally a long lance-point of grey light shot through the dusty panes of the window. Without, the young man could see roofs drearily white in the dawning. The point of light yellowed and grew brighter, until the golden rays of the morning sun came in bravely and strong. They touched with radiant colour the form of a small fat man, who snored in stuttering fashion. His round and shiny bald head glowed suddenly with the valour of a decoration. He sat up, blinked at the sun, swore fretfully, and pulled his blanket over the ornamental splendours of his head. The youth contentedly watched this rout of the shadows before the bright spears of the sun, and presently he slumbered. When he awoke he heard the voice of the assassin raised in valiant curses. Putting up his head, he perceived his comrade seated on the side of the cot engaged in scratching his neck with long finger-nails that rasped like flies. "Hully Jee, dis is a new breed. They've got can-openers on their feet." He continued in a violent tirade.     The young man hastily unlocked his closet and took out his shoes and hat. As he sat on the side of the cot lacing his shoes, he glanced about and saw that daylight had made the room comparatively commonplace and uninteresting. The men, whose faces seemed stolid, serene or absent, were engaged in dressing, while a great crackle of bantering conversation arose. A few were parading in unconcerned nakedness. Here and there were men of brawn, whose skins shone clear and ruddy. They took splendid poses, standing massively like chiefs. When they had dressed in their ungainly garments there was an extraordinary change. They then showed bumps and deficiencies of all kinds. There were others who exhibited many deformities. Shoulders were slanting, humped, pulled this way and pulled that way. And notable among these latter men was the little fat man, who had refused to allow his head to be glorified. His pudgy form, builded like a pear, bustled to and fro, while he swore in fishwife fashion. It appeared that some article of his apparel had vanished. The young man attired speedily, and went to his friend the assassin. At first the latter looked dazed at the sight of the youth. This face seemed to be appealing to him through the cloud wastes of his memory. He scratched his neck and reflected. At last he grinned, a broad smile gradually spreading until his countenance was a round illumination. "Hello, Willie," he cried cheerily. "Hello," said the young man. "Are yeh ready t' fly?" "Sure." The assassin tied his shoe carefully with some twine and came ambling. When he reached the street the young man experienced no sudden relief from unholy atmospheres. He had forgotten all about them, and had been breathing naturally, and with no sensation of discomfort or distress.     He was thinking of these things as he walked along the street, when he was suddenly startled by feeling the assassin's hand, trembling with excitement, clutching his arm, and when the assassin spoke, his voice went into quavers from a supreme agitation. "I'll be hully, bloomin' blowed if there wasn't a feller with a nightshirt on up there in that joint." The youth was bewildered for a moment, but presently he turned to smile indulgently at the assassin's humour. "Oh, you're a d---d liar," he merely said. Whereupon the assassin began to gesture extravagantly, and take oath by strange gods. He frantically placed himself at the mercy of remarkable fates if his tale were not true. "Yes, he did! I cross m'heart thousan' times!" he protested, and at the moment his eyes were large with amazement, his mouth wrinkled in unnatural glee. "Yessir! A nightshirt! A hully white nightshirt!" "You lie!" "No, sir! I hope ter die b'fore I kind git anudder ball if there wasn't a jay wid a hully, bloomin' white nighshirt!" His face was filled with the infinite wonder of it. "A hully white nighshirt," he continually repeated. The young man saw the dark entrance to a basement restaurant. There was a sign which read "No mystery about our hash"! and there were other age-stained and world-batered legends which told him that the place was within his means. He stopped before it and spoke to the assassin. "I guess I'll git somethin' t' eat." At this the assassin, for some reason, appeared to be quite embarrassed. He gazed at the seductive front of the eating place for a moment. Then he started slowly up the street. "Well, good-bye, Willie," he said bravely. For an instant the youth studied the departing figure. Then he called out, "Hol' on a minnet." As they came together he spoke in a certain fierce way, as if he feared that the other would think him to be charitable. "Look-a-here, if yeh wanta git some breakfas' I'll lend yeh three cents t' do it with. But say, look-a-here, you've gota git out an' hustle. I ain't goin' t' support yeh, or I'll go broke b'fore night. I ain't no millionaire." "I take me oath, Willie," said the assassin earnestly, "th' on'y thing I really needs is a ball. Me t'roat feels like a fryin'-pan. But as I can't get a ball, why, th' next bes' thing is breakfast, an' if yeh do that for me, b' Gawd, I say yeh was th' whitest lad I ever see." They spent a few moments in deteroux exchanges of phrases, in which they each protested that the other was, as the assassin had originally said, "a respecter'ble gentlm'n." And they concluded with mutual assurances that they were the souls of intelligence and virtue. Then they went into the restaurant. There was a long counter, dimly lighted from hidden sources. Two or three men in soiled white aprons rushed here and there. The youth bought a bowl of coffee for two cents and a roll for one cent. The assassin purchased the same. the bowls were webbed with brown seams, and the tin spoons wore an air of having emerged from the first pyramid. Upon them were black moss-like encrustations of age, and they were bent and scarred from the attacks of long-forgotten teeth. But over their repast the wanderers waxed warm and mellow. The assassin grew affable as the hot mixture went soothingly down his parched throat, and the young man felt courage flow in his veins. Memories began to throng in on the assassin, and he brought forth long tales, intricate, incoherent, delivered with a chattering swiftness as from an old woman. "--great job out'n Orange. Boss keep yeh hustlin' though all time. I was there three days, and then I went an' ask 'im t' lend me a dollar. 'G-g-go ter the devil,' he ses, an' I lose me job. "South no good. Damn niggers work for twenty-five an' thirty cents a day. Run white man out. Good grub though. Easy livin'. "Yas; useter work little in Toledo, raftin' logs. Make two or three dollars er day in the spring. Lived high. Cold as ice though in the winter. "I was raised in northern N'York. O-o-oh, yeh jest oughto live there. No beer ner whisky though, way off in the woods. But all th' good hot grub yeh can eat. B' Gawd, I hung around there long as I could till th' ol' man fired me. 'Git t' hell outa here, yeh wuthless skunk, git t' hell outa here, an' go die,' he ses. 'You're a hell of a father,' I ses, 'you are,' an' I quit him." As they were passing from the dim eating place, they encountered an old man who was trying to steal forth with a tiny package of food, but a tall man with an indomitable moustache stood dragon fashion, barring the way of escape. They heard the old man raise a plaintive protest. "Ah, you always want to know what I take out, and you never see that I usually bring a package in here from my place of business." As the wanderers trudged slowly along Park Row, the assassin began to expand and grow blithe. "B' Gawd, we've been livin' like kings," he said, smacking appreciative lips. "Look out, or we'll have t' pay fer it t'night," said the youth with gloomy warning. But the assassin refused to turn his gazed toward the future. He went with a limping step, into which he injected a suggestion of lamblike gambols. His mouth was wreathed in a red grin. In the City Hall Park the two wanderers sat down in the little circle of benches sanctified by traditions of their class. They huddled in their old garments, slumbrously conscious of the march of the hours which for them had no meaning. The people of the street hurrying hither and thither made a blend of black figures changing yet frieze-like. They walked in their good clothes as upon important missions, giving no gaze to the two wanderers seated upon the benches. They expressed to the young man his infinite distance from all that he valued. Social position, comfort, the pleasures of living, were unconquerable kingdoms. He felt a sudden awe. And in the background a multitude of buildings, of pitiless hues and sternly high, were to him embelamatic of a nation forcing its regal head into the clouds, throwing no downward glances; in the sublimity of its aspirations ignoring the wretches who may flounder at its feet. The roar of the city in his ear was to him the confusion of strange tongues, babbling heedlessly; it was the clink of coin, the voice of the city's hopes which were to him no hopes. He confessed himself an outcast, and his eyes from nder the lowered rim of his hat began to glance guiltily, wearing the criminal expression that comes with certain convictions.     Coda "Well," said the friend, "did you discover his point of view?" "I don't know that I did," replied the young man; "but at any rate I think mine own has undergone a considerable alteration."    

StoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups
136: Alfred Stieglitz: "The Terminal" and "Winter, Fifth Avenue"

StoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2017 11:16


This week on StoryWeb: Alfred Stieglitz’s photographs The Terminal and Winter, Fifth Avenue. In the 1890s, as Alfred Stieglitz was beginning his career, photographers were fighting for artistic recognition. Photographers who wanted to go beyond “mere” journalism or documentary photography had to show their critics the value of their “mechanistic” art. Photographers like Stieglitz were trying to prove to skeptics that the camera could be used not only as a journalistic tool (as Jacob Riis used it in How the Other Half Lives) but that photographs could also have value as art. Stieglitz was unquestionably the leader of the movement to gain artistic recognition for photography. A pioneer in subject matter, technique, and treatment, Stieglitz shot many “firsts,” among them the first snow photograph, Winter, Fifth Avenue (shot in 1893), the first rain photo, A Wet Day on the Boulevard [Paris] (taken in 1894), and the first night shot, Reflections – Night [New York] (created in 1896). In 1897, Stieglitz published Picturesque Bits of New York, a volume of his New York scenes; it sold for the then-whopping price of $15. Stieglitz was concerned with both seeing life as it was and interpreting it morally. Scholar Doris Bry says of him: “To define and fix a moment of reality, to realize the potential of black and white, through photography, fascinated Stieglitz.” But objectivity to Stieglitz was not enough. In a 1908 article in the New York Herald, Stieglitz stressed the importance of the “personal touch” and the “individual expression” of the artist. He said, “I saw what others were doing was to make hard, cold copies of hard, cold subjects in hard, cold light. . . . I did not see why a photograph should not be a work of art, and I studied to make it one.” Though Stieglitz hailed from Hoboken, New Jersey, New York was his adopted city. As Bry says, “he came to love [the city], it became home to him.” Art critic Neil Leonard says, “Stieglitz’s photographs of these years held strong emotional meaning for him, yet they realistically captured . . . the sights, rhythms, and moods of the city.” Two of Stieglitz’s New York photos are particularly compelling to me, both shot in 1893: The Terminal and Winter, Fifth Avenue. Stieglitz said, “From 1893 to 1895 I often walked the streets of New York downtown, near the East River, taking my hand camera with me.” According to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Stieglitz’s small Folmer and Schwing 4 x 5 plate film camera was “an instrument not considered at the time to be worthy of artistic photography.” Stieglitz threw away his “unwieldy” 8 x 10 view camera and its tripod, choosing the 4 x 5 camera, which, says The Met, “gave [him] greater freedom and mobility to roam the city and respond quickly to the ever-changing street life around him.” The Terminal was captured at the southern end of the Harlem streetcar line, which traveled up and down Fifth Avenue. One day, said Stieglitz, “I found myself in front of the old Post Office. . . . It was extremely cold. Snow lay on the ground. A driver in a rubber coat was watering his steaming car horses. How fortunate the horses seemed, having a human being to tend them. The steaming horses being watered on a cold winter day, the snow-covered streets . . . [expressed] my own sense of loneliness in my own country.” In another description of The Terminal, Stieglitz said, “I used to walk around the streets disconsolately, until one night during a blizzard, I happened to see a man, watering a couple of horse-car horses, and I thought, ‘Well, there at any rate is the human touch; ‘ that made me feel better.” Of the same incident, Stieglitz told biographer Dorothy Norman, “There seemed to me to be something closely related to my deepest feeling in what I saw . . . and I decided to photograph what was within me.” Winter, Fifth Avenue was taken the same year, also with a 4 x 5 box camera. Journalist and novelist Theodore Dreiser, who was heavily influenced by Stieglitz, said of this photograph: “The driving sleet and uncomfortable atmosphere issued out of the picture with uncomfortable persuasion. It had the tone of reality.” What seems to have impressed Dreiser most about Stieglitz’s photography, however, was the huge amount of time and effort Stieglitz took in making the final prints. Patience was necessary at all stages: setting up the scene, working with the negative, making the print. Indeed, according to The Art Story website, Stieglitz “stalked Fifth Avenue for three frigid hours waiting for the perfect moment.” Stieglitz himself told the story this way: On Washington’s birthday in 1893, a great blizzard raged in New York. I stood on a corner of Fifth Avenue, watching the lumbering stagecoaches appear through the blinding snow and move northward on the avenue. The question formed itself: could what I was experiencing, seeing, be put down with the slot plates and lenses available? The light was dim. Knowing that where there is light, one can photograph, I decided to make an exposure. After three hours of standing in the blinding snow, I saw the stagecoach come struggling up the street with the driver lashing his horses onward. At that point, I was nearly out of my head, but I got the exposure I wanted. Often, the negatives produced were discouraging. Such was the case with Winter, Fifth Avenue, the original negative of which was so blurry that a fellow photographer said, “For God’s sake, Stieglitz, throw that thing away.” But Stieglitz focused on a portion of the negative that he felt was usable and managed to manipulate it in the darkroom until he got what he wanted. The result is a stunning photograph indeed. Good overviews of Stieglitz’s work can be found at The Metropolitan Museum of Art website and the PBS American Masters website. The New York Times review of “Alfred Stieglitz New York,” a 2010 exhibit at the Seaport Museum, offers additional insights into Stieglitz’s depictions of his adopted city. Books you might want to add to your collection include Alfred Stieglitz: Masters of Photography Series (which features The Terminal on the cover) and Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs & Writings. Alfred Stieglitz: A Biography offers a comprehensive look at Stieglitz’s immense influence on photography. To explore the artistic connections between Stieglitz and his wife, painter Georgia O’Keeffe, check out Two Lives: A Conversation in Paintings and Photographs – and to learn more about their personal lives, dip into My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz. Visit thestoryweb.com/Stieglitz for links to all these resources and to watch the PBS American Masters episode: “Alfred Stieglitz: The Eloquent Eye.” Tune in next week for an exploration of Stephen Crane and his journalistic essays about New York life during the 1890s.

Positive Energy Radio
Positive Energy Radio (PER008) Guest Mix by Zach Ibiza & GlenVista Heights

Positive Energy Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 9, 2017 52:55


We are happy to present the 8th edition of our podcast series. Get in touch for creative proposals, music requests or general enquiries: positiveenergymusic@gmail.com Positive Energy Radio (PER008) Guest Mix by Zach Ibiza & GlenVista Heights Tracklist: 1. G.V.H/ Our L – Come On, Darling (Poem Only) 2. Vaage & Wasserfall – Arp 3. Mala – Como Como (feat. Dreiser & Sexto Sentido) (original mix) 4. Dubbyman – Let’s Play House (Above Smoke Remix) 5. Raybone Jones – Call It What u Want 6. The Lady Blacktronika – All The Good Feelings (Above Smoke and Dubbyman Remix) 7. Wasserfall – Came As It Went 8. Christopher Rau – Half Broken Hearted 9. The Rurals – Rivers 10. Vakula – Mama Said Go Slow 11. Cassio Ware – Baby Love (Chord Mix) 12. G.V.H / Our L – Charlie (Poem Only) For More Information about Positive Energy: Website: http://positiveenergyradio.blogspot.com Email: positiveenergymusic@gmail.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PositiveEnergyMusic/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/za/podcast/positive-energy-radio/id1194063123

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Futility Closet
125-The Campden Wonder

Futility Closet

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 10, 2016 34:01


When William Harrison disappeared from Campden, England, in 1660, his servant offered an incredible explanation: that he and his family had murdered him. The events that followed only proved the situation to be even more bizarre. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll describe "the Campden wonder," an enigma that has eluded explanation for more than 300 years. We'll also consider Vladimir Putin's dog and puzzle over a little girl's benefactor. Intro: In 1921, Pennsylvania surgeon Evan O'Neill Kane removed his own appendix. (Soviet physician Leonid Rogozov did the same 40 years later.) John Cowper Powys once promised to visit Theodore Dreiser "as a spirit or in some other astral form" -- and, according to Dreiser, did so. Sources for our feature on the Campden Wonder: Sir George Clark, ed., The Campden Wonder, 1959. "The Campden Wonder," Arminian Magazine, August 1787, 434. "Judicial Puzzles -- The Campden Wonder," Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, July 1860, 54-64. Andrew Lang, Historical Mysteries, 1904. J.A. Cannon, "Campden Wonder," in The Oxford Companion to British History, 2015. Bruce P. Smith, "The History of Wrongful Execution," Hastings Law Journal, June 2005. Frances E. Chapman, "Coerced Internalized False Confessions and Police Interrogations: The Power of Coercion," Law & Psychology Review 37 (2013), 159. Listener mail: Tim Hume, "Vladimir Putin: I Didn't Mean to Scare Angela Merkel With My Dog," CNN, Jan. 12, 2016. Roland Oliphant, "Vladimir Putin Denies Setting His Dog on Angela Merkel," Telegraph, Jan. 12, 2016. Stefan Kornelius, "Six Things You Didn't Know About Angela Merkel," Guardian, Sept. 10, 2013. Wikipedia, "Spall" (retrieved Oct. 7, 2016). Associated Press, "Boise City to Celebrate 1943 Bombing Misguided B-17 Crew Sought," Nov. 21, 1990. Owlcation, "The WWII Bombing of Boise City in Oklahoma," May 9, 2016. "World War II Air Force Bombers Blast Boise City," Boise City News, July 5, 1943. "County Gets Second Air Bombardment," Boise City News, April 5, 1945. Antony Beevor, D-Day, 2009. This week's lateral thinking puzzle is from Paul Sloane and Des MacHale's 2014 book Remarkable Lateral Thinking Puzzles. You can listen using the player above, download this episode directly, or subscribe on iTunes or Google Play Music or via the RSS feed at http://feedpress.me/futilitycloset. Please consider becoming a patron of Futility Closet -- on our Patreon page you can pledge any amount per episode, and we've set up some rewards to help thank you for your support. You can also make a one-time donation on the Support Us page of the Futility Closet website. Many thanks to Doug Ross for the music in this episode. If you have any questions or comments you can reach us at podcast@futilitycloset.com. Thanks for listening!  

Other Directions
O Mi Shango

Other Directions

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 9, 2015 61:13


Recorded on Monday June 8, 2015 1. Intro 2. Mongo Santamaria- O Mi Shango 3. Drala- Olokun 4. Kid Fonque & D-Malice- All This Time (Feat. Clara Hill) 5. DJ Fudge- Pedogbepa 6. Drala- The Gods Made Me Funky (Feat. Motty & Siobahn 7. Vikter Duplaix- Morena 8. Pablo Fierro- Afronation 9. Louie "Lou" Gorbea- (Vocal Mix (Feat Boddhi Satva) 10. Gilles Peterson's Havana Cultura Band, Dreiser & Sexto Sentido- Orisa (Atjazz Astro Dub Remix) 11. Kiko Navarro & DJ Fudge- Babalu Aye (feat. Dono) [Cosmic Dub] 12. Jazztronik- Dentro Mi Alma (Yoruba Soul Remix)

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FuseBox Radio Broadcast
FuseBox Radio Broadcast w/ DJ Fusion & Jon Judah #411 - Weeks of October 29 & Nov. 5, 2014 [Flashback Episode]

FuseBox Radio Broadcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 9, 2014 196:04


** Due to a bit of sickness (last week it was Ausar Ra being sick, this week it was DJ Fusion...yay wack weather in the East Coast of the U.S. :/), we weren't able to get new show from this week up in time but however, we still wanted to give our listeners something to listen to with for this week...enjoy! ** This is the latest episode of the syndicated FuseBox Radio Broadcast with DJ Fusion & Jon Judah (aka Ausar Ra Black Hawk) for the weeks of October 29 & Nov. 5, 2014 (originally broadcast on the week of June 27, 2012) with some new and classic Hip-Hop & Soul Music, news and commentary. Our commentary during that week touched base on the recent verdict on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) by the U.S. Supreme Court about it's constitutionality, the recent attacks on U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder for "Fast and Furious", verdict of the Jerry Sandusky case & what it means for other cases of sexual abuse + the institution of Penn State, recent discovery that Jimmy Henchmen admitted his involvement in the Tupac Shakur shooting in New York City in the 1990s, Stephanie Mills' possible female R&B supergroup, when "I fart in your general direction" goes wrong with guns in New Jersey and some other diverse topics here and there. There were brand new DIRECT EFX and Black Agenda Report News mini-segments on this week's episode. FuseBox Radio Playlist + Charts for the Weeks of October 29 & Nov. 5, 2014 (originally broadcast on the week of June 27, 2012) Top Spins (Music Still Lasting in Rotation/Music Played Live on Air Each Week/As Well As Music Requested By The Listeners) 1. Brother Ali/Stop The Press/Rhymesayers (Played Live) 2. Killer Mike/Reagan/Williams Street Records (Played Live) 3. Conya Doss/What About You And Me/ConyaDoss.com (Played Live) 4. Evitan (Dres of Black Sheep & Jarobi of A Tribe Called Quest) feat. Sadat X/The 3 Kings/White Label (Played Live) 5. Muthawit/Bet You One Of Us/URB ALT (Played Live) 6. J. Dilla feat. Amp Fiddler/Let's Pray Together/OfficialJDilla.com (Played Live) 7. House Shoes feat. Jimetta Rose/Castles/Tres Records (Played Live) 8. Bobby Womack/Stupid/XL Recordings (Top Song Requested) 9. Marc Mac Presents Visoneers/Funk Box (Jazzy Jeff Vocal)/BBE (Top Song Requested) 10. Gangstagrass/Our Life/Gangstagrass.com (Top Song Requested) 11. Agartha Audio & Taiyamo Denku feat. Craig G & Sadat X/Road is Rough/Uncommon Records (Top Song Requested) 12. RoQ'y TyRaiD/LAX to Germany/RoQyTyRaiD.com (Top Song Requested) 13. Giles Peterson's Havana Cultura Band feat. Dreiser & Sexto Sentido/Orisa (Alex Patchwork RMX)/Brownswood Recordings (Top Song Requested) 14. Big K.R.I.T. feat. Big Sant & Bun B/Pull Up/Def Jam (Top Song Requested) 15. Mobius Collective/Gypsy Cab (Sunjinho Moombahton RMX)/Wonderwheel Recordings (Top Song Requested) 16. Arrested Development/Living/ArrestedDevelopment.com (Top Song Requested) 17. Show & AG feat. DJ Premier/You In Trouble/White Label (Top Song Requested) 18. MA DOOM (Masta Ace & DOOM) feat. Big Daddy Kane/Think I Am/Fat Beats (Top Song Requested) 19. Tensi/Low Key/Plug Research (Top Song Requested) 20. Flow Dynamics/Bossa For Bebo (Lack of Afro RMX)/LackOfAfro.com (Top Song Requested) 21. Quakers/Fitta Happier/Stones Throw (Top Song Requested) 22. Omar/Sing (If You Want It)(Scratch Professor Re-Twist)/Tru Thoughts (Top Song Requested) 23. staHHr/Unbreakable/Stahhr.com (Top Song Requested) 24. DJ Nu-Mark feat. J-Live & Lucious Beats/Tonight/Hot Plate Records (Top Song Requested) 25. SoulParlor feat. Jacob & The Appleblossom/Nothing Ever Changes (Afronaut & mdCL RMX)/Tokyo Dawn Records (Top Song Requested) Top Adds (New Joints Played Live On This Week's Broadcast) 1. OH NO feat. Phife Dawg & Jose James/Dues N Donts/Brick Records & Five Day Weekend 2. The Invisible/Utopia/Ninja Tune 3. Tess/MJ/TheNameIsTess.com 4. Dubtonic Kru/Overcome/DubtonicKru.com DJ Fusion Flashback Tracks: The Genius (GZA)/Those Were The Days/Cold Chillin' Pharoah Sanders/Hum-Allah/Hum-Allah-Hum-Allah/Impluse! Charles Mingus/Haitian Fight Song/Atlantic PLUS Some Extra Special Hidden Tracks in the Jon Judah (aka Ausar Ra Black Hawk) Master Mix w/ Old School Black Music Classics and Independent Music Finds

Campus Events
Conversation with Martha Nussbaum and Saul Levmore on their new book, "American Guy: Masculinity in American Law and Literature"

Campus Events

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 13, 2014 10:46


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. University of Chicago Law School faculty members Saul Levmore and Martha Nussbaum discuss a new book they have co-edited, “American Guy: Masculinity in American Law and Literature.” Levmore is the William B. Graham Distinguished Service Professor of Law, and Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics in the Law School, Department of Philosophy, Divinity School, and the College. American Guy: Masculinity in American Law and Literature “American Guy” examines American norms of masculinity and their role in the law, bringing a range of methodological and disciplinary perspectives to the intersection of American gender, legal, and literary issues. The collection opens with a set of papers investigating “American Guys”—the heroic nonconformists and rugged individualists who populate much of American fiction. Diverse essays examine the manly men of Hemingway, Dreiser, and others in their relation to the law, while also highlighting the underlying tensions that complicate this version of masculinity. A second set of papers examines “Outsiders”—men on the periphery of the American Guys who proclaim a different way of being male. These essays take up counter-traditions of masculinity ranging from gay male culture to Philip Roth’s portrait of the Jewish lawyer.

Campus Events
American Guy: Masculinity in American Law and Literature

Campus Events

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 13, 2014 2:27


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. University of Chicago Law School faculty members Saul Levmore and Martha Nussbaum discuss a new book they have co-edited, “American Guy: Masculinity in American Law and Literature.” Levmore is the William B. Graham Distinguished Service Professor of Law, and Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics in the Law School, Department of Philosophy, Divinity School, and the College. To watch the longer discussion with Martha Nussbaum and Saul Levmore go here: http://news.uchicago.edu/multimedia/conversation-martha-nussbaum-and-saul-levmore-their-new-book American Guy: Masculinity in American Law and Literature “American Guy” examines American norms of masculinity and their role in the law, bringing a range of methodological and disciplinary perspectives to the intersection of American gender, legal, and literary issues. The collection opens with a set of papers investigating “American Guys”—the heroic nonconformists and rugged individualists who populate much of American fiction. Diverse essays examine the manly men of Hemingway, Dreiser, and others in their relation to the law, while also highlighting the underlying tensions that complicate this version of masculinity. A second set of papers examines “Outsiders”—men on the periphery of the American Guys who proclaim a different way of being male. These essays take up counter-traditions of masculinity ranging from gay male culture to Philip Roth’s portrait of the Jewish lawyer. For more info see: -http://www.law.uchicago.edu/news/new-levmore-and-nussbaum-book-explores-masculinity-law-and-literature -http://www.amazon.com/American-Guy-Masculinity-Law-Literature/dp/0199331375/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1412695665&sr=8-1&keywords=American+guy

LEGALiZE HiT !
Breaks n' Beats World Mix

LEGALiZE HiT !

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 14, 2014 48:31


Como Como (feat Dreiser & SextoSentido) 3:48 MALA Mala In Cuba 2012 Reclap 2:09 SOULPHICTION Featured Artist EP 2010 Let I Go (feat Anthony Joseph) 5:18 MOP MOP Isle Of Magic 2013 Calling 4:29 Tony Allen Home Cooking 2002 From Africa 2 U 3:53 Nneka No Longer At Ease 2008 So Be It 3:52 Kelis Red Hot + Riot 2002 Ti Missie 3:55 Setenta Funky Tumbao 2010 Relax Uwind (feat Abdul Shyllon - Afrojas reconstruction) 5:33 Afronaut Y Amigos Presentan Hecho En Casa Part 1 2008 Gaeleta Liquida 5:35 Afronaut Y Amigos Presentan Hecho En Casa Part 1 2008 Funky Tumbao 3:41 Setenta Funky Tumbao 2010 Kiwedinong - North Wind 3:09 FLYING DOWN THUNDER/RISE ASHEN North Wind 2012 Fell 4:32 AFRO DUB Brazilian Night 2013

The Christian Humanist Podcast
Episode 81: Realism

The Christian Humanist Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2012 84:50


Michial Farmer moderates a discussion with David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour about realism, a term so nebulous that even literary reference books don't like it. In the course of things we talk about medieval and modern connotations of the word as well as how modern realism spans architecture, painting, sculpture, music, fiction, and all sorts of interesting media. Among the texts, artists, and other realities we discuss are Stephen Crane, Manet, Debussy, Ranke, Henry James, and Dreiser.

The Christian Humanist Podcast
Episode 81: Realism

The Christian Humanist Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2012 1:21


Michial Farmer moderates a discussion with David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour about realism, a term so nebulous that even literary reference books don't like it. In the course of things we talk about medieval and modern connotations of the word as well as how modern realism spans architecture, painting, sculpture, music, fiction, and all sorts of interesting media. Among the texts, artists, and other realities we discuss are Stephen Crane, Manet, Debussy, Ranke, Henry James, and Dreiser.

FuseBox Radio Broadcast
FuseBox Radio Broadcast w/ DJ Fusion & Jon Judah #310 – July 4, 2012

FuseBox Radio Broadcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 7, 2012 181:02


This is the latest episode of the syndicated FuseBox Radio Broadcast with DJ Fusion & Jon Judah for the week of July 4, 2012 with some new and classic Hip-Hop & Soul Music, news and commentary. Our commentary this week touched base on some of the latest updates of the Trayvon Martin case, Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney saying that citizens should only be able to get "as much education as they can afford", the NYPD posting up "wanted" flyers of people legally taping "stop & frisk" procedures in New York City, passing of actor Andy Griffith, this year's BET Awards, and some other diverse topics here and there. There are brand new DIRECT EFX and Black Agenda Report News mini-segments on this week's episode. FuseBox Radio Playlist + Charts for the Week of July 4, 2012 Top Spins (Music Still Lasting in Rotation/Music Played Live on Air Each Week/As Well As Music Requested By The Listeners) 1. OH NO feat. Phife Dawg & Jose James/Dues N Donts/Brick Records & Five Day Weekend (Played Live) 2. House Shoes feat. Jimetta Rose/Castles/Tres Records (Played Live) 3. The Invisible/Utopia/Ninja Tune (Played Live) 4. Tess/MJ/TheNameIsTess.com (Played Live) 5. Evitan (Dres of Black Sheep & Jarobi of A Tribe Called Quest) feat. Sadat X/The 3 Kings/White Label (Played Live) 6. Conya Doss/What About You And Me/ConyaDoss.com (Played Live) 7. Muthawit/Bet You One Of Us/URB ALT (Played Live) 8. Brother Ali/Stop The Press/Rhymesayers (Played Live) 9. Killer Mike/Reagan/Williams Street Records (Top Song Requested) 10. Dubtonic Kru/Overcome/DubtonicKru.com (Top Song Requested) 11. Killer Mike/Reagan/Williams Street Records (Top Song Requested) 12. J. Dilla feat. Amp Fiddler/Let's Pray Together/OfficialJDilla.com (Top Song Requested) 13. Bobby Womack/Stupid/XL Recordings (Top Song Requested) 14. Marc Mac Presents Visoneers/Funk Box (Jazzy Jeff Vocal)/BBE (Top Song Requested) 15. Gangstagrass/Our Life/Gangstagrass.com (Top Song Requested) 16. Agartha Audio & Taiyamo Denku feat. Craig G & Sadat X/Road is Rough/Uncommon Records (Top Song Requested) 17. RoQ'y TyRaiD/LAX to Germany/RoQyTyRaiD.com (Top Song Requested) 18. Giles Peterson's Havana Cultura Band feat. Dreiser & Sexto Sentido/Orisa (Alex Patchwork RMX)/Brownswood Recordings (Top Song Requested) 19. Big K.R.I.T. feat. Big Sant & Bun B/Pull Up/Def Jam (Top Song Requested) 20. Mobius Collective/Gypsy Cab (Sunjinho Moombahton RMX)/Wonderwheel Recordings (Top Song Requested) 21. Arrested Development/Living/ArrestedDevelopment.com (Top Song Requested) 22. Show & AG feat. DJ Premier/You In Trouble/White Label (Top Song Requested) 23. MA DOOM (Masta Ace & DOOM) feat. Big Daddy Kane/Think I Am/Fat Beats (Top Song Requested) 24. Tensi/Low Key/Plug Research (Top Song Requested) 25. Flow Dynamics/Bossa For Bebo (Lack of Afro RMX)/LackOfAfro.com (Top Song Requested) Top Adds (New Joints Played Live On This Week's Broadcast) 1. Wax Tailor feat. Jennifer Charles/Heart Stop (RJD2 RMX)/LePlan 2. Electro Deluxe/Let's Go To Work/EnzoProductions.com 3. AWAR/Tunnel Vision/Lion's Pride & Raw Koncept 4. Mr. Vegas feat. Alison Hinds/Bruk It Down (Soca RMX)/MV Music 5. Jean Grae feat. Mela Machinko/Bridge (Mr. Len RMX)/Smacks Records 6. Teresa Jenee/Mathematics/TeresaJenee.bandcamp.com 7. Miremonos/Jagermesiter/Miremonos.com 8. BridgeZ feat. M1 of Dead Prez/If Love's A Game/White Label DJ Fusion Flashback Tracks: Queen Latifah/Bring The Flava, La/Flavor Unit Records PLUS Some Extra Special Hidden Tracks in the Jon Judah Master Mix w/ Old School Black Music Classics and Independent Music Finds

FuseBox Radio Broadcast
FuseBox Radio Broadcast w/ DJ Fusion & Jon Judah #309 – June 27, 2012

FuseBox Radio Broadcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2012 196:04


This is the latest episode of the syndicated FuseBox Radio Broadcast with DJ Fusion & Jon Judah for the week of June 27, 2012 with some new and classic Hip-Hop & Soul Music, news and commentary. Our commentary this week touched base on the recent verdict on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) by the U.S. Supreme Court about it's constitutionality, the recent attacks on U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder for "Fast and Furious", verdict of the Jerry Sandusky case & what it means for other cases of sexual abuse + the institution of Penn State, recent discovery that Jimmy Henchmen admitted his involvement in the Tupac Shakur shooting in New York City in the 1990s, Stephanie Mills' possible female R&B supergroup, when "I fart in your general direction" goes wrong with guns in New Jersey and some other diverse topics here and there. There are brand new DIRECT EFX and Black Agenda Report News mini-segments on this week's episode. FuseBox Radio Playlist + Charts for the Week of June 27, 2012 Top Spins (Music Still Lasting in Rotation/Music Played Live on Air Each Week/As Well As Music Requested By The Listeners) 1. Brother Ali/Stop The Press/Rhymesayers (Played Live) 2. Killer Mike/Reagan/Williams Street Records (Played Live) 3. Conya Doss/What About You And Me/ConyaDoss.com (Played Live) 4. Evitan (Dres of Black Sheep & Jarobi of A Tribe Called Quest) feat. Sadat X/The 3 Kings/White Label (Played Live) 5. Muthawit/Bet You One Of Us/URB ALT (Played Live) 6. J. Dilla feat. Amp Fiddler/Let's Pray Together/OfficialJDilla.com (Played Live) 7. House Shoes feat. Jimetta Rose/Castles/Tres Records (Played Live) 8. Bobby Womack/Stupid/XL Recordings (Top Song Requested) 9. Marc Mac Presents Visoneers/Funk Box (Jazzy Jeff Vocal)/BBE (Top Song Requested) 10. Gangstagrass/Our Life/Gangstagrass.com (Top Song Requested) 11. Agartha Audio & Taiyamo Denku feat. Craig G & Sadat X/Road is Rough/Uncommon Records (Top Song Requested) 12. RoQ'y TyRaiD/LAX to Germany/RoQyTyRaiD.com (Top Song Requested) 13. Giles Peterson's Havana Cultura Band feat. Dreiser & Sexto Sentido/Orisa (Alex Patchwork RMX)/Brownswood Recordings (Top Song Requested) 14. Big K.R.I.T. feat. Big Sant & Bun B/Pull Up/Def Jam (Top Song Requested) 15. Mobius Collective/Gypsy Cab (Sunjinho Moombahton RMX)/Wonderwheel Recordings (Top Song Requested) 16. Arrested Development/Living/ArrestedDevelopment.com (Top Song Requested) 17. Show & AG feat. DJ Premier/You In Trouble/White Label (Top Song Requested) 18. MA DOOM (Masta Ace & DOOM) feat. Big Daddy Kane/Think I Am/Fat Beats (Top Song Requested) 19. Tensi/Low Key/Plug Research (Top Song Requested) 20. Flow Dynamics/Bossa For Bebo (Lack of Afro RMX)/LackOfAfro.com (Top Song Requested) 21. Quakers/Fitta Happier/Stones Throw (Top Song Requested) 22. Omar/Sing (If You Want It)(Scratch Professor Re-Twist)/Tru Thoughts (Top Song Requested) 23. staHHr/Unbreakable/Stahhr.com (Top Song Requested) 24. DJ Nu-Mark feat. J-Live & Lucious Beats/Tonight/Hot Plate Records (Top Song Requested) 25. SoulParlor feat. Jacob & The Appleblossom/Nothing Ever Changes (Afronaut & mdCL RMX)/Tokyo Dawn Records (Top Song Requested) Top Adds (New Joints Played Live On This Week's Broadcast) 1. OH NO feat. Phife Dawg & Jose James/Dues N Donts/Brick Records & Five Day Weekend 2. The Invisible/Utopia/Ninja Tune 3. Tess/MJ/TheNameIsTess.com 4. Dubtonic Kru/Overcome/DubtonicKru.com DJ Fusion Flashback Tracks: The Genius (GZA)/Those Were The Days/Cold Chillin' Pharoah Sanders/Hum-Allah/Hum-Allah-Hum-Allah/Impluse! Charles Mingus/Haitian Fight Song/Atlantic PLUS Some Extra Special Hidden Tracks in the Jon Judah Master Mix w/ Old School Black Music Classics and Independent Music Finds

Other Directions
Nights Of Balaur

Other Directions

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 1, 2012 41:59


Recorded on Sunday July 1, 2012. Tracklisting: 1. Nickodemus- Nights Of Balaur 2. Beats Antique- Dope Crunk 3. Bjork- Crystalline (Omar Souleyman Version) 4. Balkan Beat Box feat. Dana Leong- Sunday Arak 5. Thomas Blondett- Echo Chamber 6. Thievery Corporation- Illumination 7. Gilles Peterson's Havana Cultura Band- Orisa feat. Dreiser & Sexto Sentido (Alex Patchwork Remix) 8. Buscemi- Sahib Balkan 9. Franky Rizardo- Bumba Meu Boi (Original Mix) 10. Mr. V feat. Carlos Mena & Pablo Fierro- Fire La Chocha (Mr. V Original Mix).

FuseBox Radio Broadcast
FuseBox Radio Broadcast w/ DJ Fusion & Jon Judah #308 – June 20, 2012

FuseBox Radio Broadcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2012 180:32


This is the latest episode of the syndicated FuseBox Radio Broadcast with DJ Fusion & Jon Judah for the weeks of June 20, 2012 with some new and classic Hip-Hop & Soul Music, news and commentary. Our commentary this week touched base on a Google's policy analyst's commentary about countries making more requests than ever for takedowns of political material from all over the world, author Alice Walker's unique stand against the nation of Israel's political actions against the Palestinians, the passing of author Erica Kennedy and actress Yvette Wilson (R.I.P.), the state of Rhode Island decriminalizing small amounts of marijuana, the FuseBox Radio Broadcast's travels in Toronto, Canada during NXNE (North By Northeast), an ultimate grudge holding scenario which lead to a person being killed for a beef from 50 years ago, when trying out a new food - calamari to be exact - goes REALLY wrong on a weirdo science fiction twist and some other diverse topics here and there. There is brand new Black Agenda Report News mini-segment on this week's episode. FuseBox Radio Playlist + Charts for the Weeks of June 20, 2012 Top Spins (Music Still Lasting in Rotation/Music Played Live on Air Each Week/As Well As Music Requested By The Listeners) 1. Bobby Womack/Stupid/XL Recordings (Played Live) 2. House Shoes feat. Jimetta Rose/Castles/Tres Records (Played Live) 3. Big K.R.I.T. feat. Big Sant & Bun B/Pull Up/Def Jam (Played Live) 4. Arrested Development/Living/ArrestedDevelopment.com (Played Live) 5. Marc Mac Presents Visoneers/Funk Box (Jazzy Jeff Vocal)/BBE (Played Live) 6. Show & AG feat. DJ Premier/You In Trouble/White Label (Top Song Requested) 7. Deep Street Soul/Greenbacks (Lack of Afro RMX)/LackOfAfro.com (Top Song Requested) 8. SoulParlor feat. Jacob & The Appleblossom/Nothing Ever Changes (Afronaut & mdCL RMX)/Tokyo Dawn Records (Top Song Requested) 9. Tensi/Low Key/Plug Research (Top Song Requested) 10. MA DOOM (Masta Ace & DOOM) feat. Big Daddy Kane/Think I Am/Fat Beats (Top Song Requested) 11. sene feat. blu/Backboards/Plug Research (Top Song Requested) 12. DJ Nu-Mark feat. J-Live & Lucious Beats/Tonight/Hot Plate Records (Top Song Requested) 13. The Big Ol' Nasty Getdown/2012/Getdown Entertainment (Top Song Requested) 14. Goodie Mob/Is That You God/White Label (Top Song Requested) 15. staHHr/Unbreakable/Stahhr.com (Top Song Requested) 16. Killer Mike/R.A.P. Music/Williams Street Records (Top Song Requested) 17. El-P/Drones Over Brooklyn/Fat Possum (Top Song Requested) 18. Dub Esquire feat. Sadat X/I Do Dis/DubEsquire.com (Top Song Requested) 19. Omar/Sing (If You Want It)(Scratch Professor Re-Twist)/Tru Thoughts (Top Song Requested) 20. Quakers/Fitta Happier/Stones Throw (Top Song Requested) 21. Marcella Precise/Pan-Am (We So Fly)/Lady & A Tramp Productions (Top Song Requested) 22. Nas/Daughters/Def Jam (Top Song Requested) 23. Oh No feat. Sticky Fingaz/Whoop Ass/Brick Records & Five Day Weekend (Top Song Requested) 24. Fleeta Partee feat. TT/Inception/Animal House Records (Top Song Requested) 25. Simian Mobile Disco/Cerulean/Witchita Recordings (Top Song Requested) Top Adds (New Joints Played Live On This Week's Broadcast) 1. Brother Ali/Stop The Press/Rhymesayers 2. Killer Mike/Reagan/Williams Street Records 3. Conya Doss/What About You And Me/ConyaDoss.com 4. Evitan (Dres of Black Sheep & Jarobi of A Tribe Called Quest) feat. Sadat X/The 3 Kings/White Label 5. Muthawit/Bet You One Of Us/URB ALT 6. J. Dilla feat. Amp Fiddler/Let's Pray Together/OfficialJDilla.com 7. Mobius Collective/Gypsy Cab (Sunjinho Moombahton RMX)/Wonderwheel Recordings 8. Gangstagrass/Our Life/Gangstagrass.com 9. Giles Peterson's Havana Cultura Band feat. Dreiser & Sexto Sentido/Orisa (Alex Patchwork RMX)/Brownswood Recordings 10. RoQ'y TyRaiD/LAX to Germany/RoQyTyRaiD.com 11. Flow Dynamics/Bossa For Bebo (Lack of Afro RMX)/LackOfAfro.com 12. Agartha Audio & Taiyamo Denku feat. Craig G & Sadat X/Road is Rough/Uncommon Records DJ Fusion Flashback Tracks: Slick Rick/World Renown/White Label Charles Mingus/Haitian Fight Song/Atlantic D'Angelo/Can't Hide Love (Live)/White Label PLUS Some Extra Special Hidden Tracks in the Jon Judah Master Mix w/ Old School Black Music Classics and Independent Music Finds

4 ÈME ART SHOW
4 ÈME ART SHOW E05 S2

4 ÈME ART SHOW

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 1, 1970 60:57


Disclaimerchill lover radio does not own or claim to own the audio shown it is for promotional use only.4 ÈME ART SHOW E05 S2 | Hosted by Abel Ray=Connect with Abel Ray :Facebook | Twitter | instagram | Website |=Styles: Jazz, Soul, African, Synth-pop, Downtempo, Deep, Deep House, House_Enjoy!Tracklist:1. Gilb'r, U-Roy - Paris RomanceBuy Link: https://www.amazon.com/Paris-Romance/dp/B002G5NWOI© 2001 Versatile Records2. Orlandivo - Onde Anda O Meu AmorBuy Link: https://www.amazon.com/Onde-Anda-O-Meu-Amor/dp/B07H2JPDN5℗© Wagram Music3. Steve Davis - Lalune BlancheBuy Link: https://www.amazon.com/Lalune-Blanche/dp/B00NYIR9IQ℗© Original Hometown Records4. Byron The Aquarius - Lost in Love (Intermission)Buy Link: https://www.amazon.com/Lost-in-Love-Intermission/dp/B07W2Z275F℗© Mutual Intentions5. João Gilberto - Rosinha (Little Rose)Buy Link: https://www.discogs.com/Jo%C3%A3o-Gilberto-Jo%C3%A3o/master/276030© 1991 PolyGram6. Dazion - Eu Nao SeiBuy Link: https://www.discogs.com/Dazion-A-Bridge-Between-Lovers/release/13966482© 2019 Second Circle7. Serge Gainsbourg - Là Bas C'est Naturel (Faze Action Remix)Buy Link: https://www.amazon.com/CEst-Naturel-Faze-Action-Remix/dp/B001IAN9FE© 2001 Mercury Music Group8. Dirtytwo - Hopeless (JT Donaldson Remix)Buy Link: https://www.beatport.com/track/hopeless-jt-donaldson-remix/13280480Record Label: Sub_Urbanhttps://www.beatport.com/label/sub-urban/300249. Orchestra Baobab - Sibou Odia (Ben Gomori Edit)Buy Link: https://bengomori.bandcamp.com/track/sibou-odia-ben-gomori-editSelf Released: Ben Gomori10. Delfonic & Kapote - Bomba RejamBuy Link: https://toytonics.bandcamp.com/track/bomba-rejamSelf Released: Toy Tonics11. Atjazz, Ernesto - Put It On (Yoruba Suite)Buy Link: https://www.beatport.com/track/put-it-on-feat-ernesto-yoruba-suite/4894859Record Label: Defectedhttps://www.beatport.com/label/defected/135412. Gilles Peterson, Dreiser & Sexto Sentido - Orisa (Atjazz Love Soul Remix)Buy Link: https://havanacultura.bandcamp.com/track/orisa-feat-dreiser-sexto-sentido-atjazz-love-soul-remixSelf Released: Havana Cultura