019. Wearing Your Tribulation like a Rose - Goth Opera?!

alAndar w/ Marcos & Jim

Can sadness be beautiful? Maybe we need it to be. Can beauty be sad? Perhaps it must be. Marcos and Jim discuss songs from Wear Your Tribulation like a Rose from Marcos de la Guagua.

Jim & Marcos consider W.H. Auden’s advice about transmuting emotion through art from Auden’s “Hymn to Saint Cecilia,” set by Benjamin Britten. Jim recalls the solidarity he experienced in goth subculture as he came of age. Marcos shares a musical rumination on John Brown’s abolitionist rebellion, and a song of lament he first wrote in memoriam of Princess Dianna at the age of 17. Marcos & Jim share gratefulness, concerns and laughter as they peer into the depths of their gothic souls.

TIMESTAMPS

(0:00) Preview

(0:53) Intro theme

(1:11) Introduction

(1:55) What’s the artist’s emotional job? Britten, Auden, “Hymn to Saint Cecilia”

(3:55) ‘Goth opera’?

(9:35) Song intro: a sad, outsider teen writes an elegy for Princess Diana

(13:19) Selection from: “Queen of the Dark”

(17:00) Jim reflects on “Dark”, Marcos’s range, & goth expressions of central city kids

(30:06) Song intro: Can anger be righteous?

(31:52) Selection from: “Marching On”

(35:31) Reflections: What truth ‘marches on’? Opposing evil without becoming evil

(44:47) Galeano reports: Mark Twain, el pueblo dominicano and defeating empire

(51:30) Jim: We don’t know.

(53:09) Jim: What is your tribulation?

(55:46) Beauty, trouble and bearing witness alAndar

(58:45) More at MarcosdelaGuagua.bandcamp.com

(1:01:01) Auden’s prayer for musicians

(1:01:53) Outro, kicker

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MARCOS' LINKS

- Bandcamp: https://marcosdelaguagua.bandcamp.com/

- Instagram: @marcos_de_la_guagua

- TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@marcosdelaguagua

- Website: www.MarcosdelaGuagua.com

- Youtube.com/user/guaguaelectrica

JIM'S LINKS

- Instagram: @jimnog

- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jimnog

- TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@jimnog27

- Website: www.JamesNoguera.com

 - X: @jimnog

CREDITS:

- Art: James Noguera

- Music: Marcos de la Guagua, Jim Nog & snippets from Benjamin Britten*

- Episode edit: Marcos de Jesús

- Show notes: Marcos de Jesús

- Literary quotes: Eduardo Galeano’s Memory of Fire, and W.H. Auden’s “Hymn to Saint Cecilia”, et al, as cited in episode.

*The long selections from songs are from Marcos’ album. The short snippets of choral music are intended as a fair use for critical illustration, from “Hymn to Saint Cecilia” performed by the Cambridge Singers, John Rutter, conductor.

DISCLAIMER:

While Marcos and Jim may discuss political or religious topics, the focus of the podcast is to talk about and share art. Silence or absence of opinion from one doesn't imply agreement or endorsement of the other's stance.