reading/hearing: + M&D

[Bill Burns]

Flavio responds: 

>> Robert Graves' _The White Goddess_ is always a good bet for this.  It's
>> not scholarship, but he somehow pulls it off.:)
>> 
>> Tribe
>
>I read only the first volume of Frazer's "The Golden Bough" so far, but
>I think it's absolutely essential in the religion/mythology field. You
>probably came across it before, but do not let anyone tell you that it's
>old-fashioned, or too full of prejudices, or too long to be worth
>reading. Draw your own conclusions.

I'm a bit ashamed to say that I haven't read Graves yet. I think one has to
accept that many older academic works of a comparative nature are going to
be, by their nature, ethnocentric if not outright racist. I still find
Campbell interesting reading, even if he does possess some strain of
antisemitic thought (not that those biases themselves have merit).

BTW, on Brett Porter's advice, I picked up Victor Wooten's *A Show of Hands*
and am listening to it on CD audio as I write. Fourth track and I'm floored,
to say the least. I thought Jaco P. was the pinnacle of virtuosity on bass.
I've always said that I would eschew five- or six-string basses until I'd
mastered four strings. Looks like I have a way to go.

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