From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2015 #68 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Unsubscribe:mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe Website: http://jonimitchell.com JMDL Digest Monday, June 8 2015 Volume 2015 : Number 068 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: JMDL Digest V2015 #67 [Steve Danielson ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 05:07:27 +0000 (UTC) From: Steve Danielson Subject: Re: JMDL Digest V2015 #67 Mary, Good point that once an artistic work has been released to the world it is fair game. Reminds me of a very interesting documentary I watched recently called "Finding Vivian Maier". She was an extremely talented photographer, but she never published a photograph. (Almost) all her photos were found after her death, and a lot of the debate in the movie is whether it is OK to publish them now if she never did when she was alive. Here's a youtube and wiki page on that documentary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o2nBhQ67Zc http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finding_Vivian_Maier I agree Turbulent Indigo is fantastic! Steve B Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2015 15:38:44 -0400 (EDT) From: "mep@chorus.net" Subject: RE:B JMDL Digest V2015 #56 Steve Danielson wrote: "I'm not sure Joni would be all too happy about the Symposium. She said she paints with words and music and didn't like people to over-analyze the lyrics." Steve, I'd hate to participate in (or, in my case, be excited about) something that Joni wouldn't like. B On the other hand, this reminds me a little of all the debates we had in grad school in English lit decades ago about whether authorial intent mattered, or should even be considered. B At the end of the day, I'd hope that Joni would agree that, once an artistic work is released into the world, it takes on a life of its own, and is subject to all the judgment and appreciation (and analysis) that is out there. And, as a bit of a digression, what appreciation there is! B Way back in 1994 or 1995, my brother gave me Turbulent Indigo for Christmas. B I listened to it a few nights ago after not hearing it for years, and *damn,* that's a good album! B For years, I think I accepted the popular wisdom that Joni's Grammy win for Best Pop Album in 1996 was a belated recognition of past slights. B But now, with 21 years of perspective, I'm amazed at how many songs I now regard as Joni classics are on this collection. B Thanks again to my brother for making my first listens possible. Mary P. - ------------------------------ ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2015 #68 **************************** ------- To post messages to the list,sendto joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------