Elvis Presley's Black Star

[Thomas Eckhardt]

Thanks!

I have always loved "Flaming Star". Didn't know about "Black Star" until 
Mark Thibodeau forwarded the lyrics and I thought, hey, wait a minute...

A decade ago, I took part in a table tennis club night. The deal was to 
play run around the table while listening to old 
country/bluegrass/rock'n'roll music. If you won a round, you were 
obliged to drink a glass of liquor on the house (incidentally, this 
setting catered perfectly to three of my favourite pastimes/vices -- 
table tennis, country music, drinking). Having played table tennis for 
the better part of my life in quarter-professional surroundings, I 
managed to win some rounds and in due course became rather inebriated. 
Immediately before we left, I won my last round to the sound of "Flaming 
Star". It was the perfect flow despite all the liquor and I am fond of 
the memory to this day.

For the more academically inclined, here is another take on 
pingpongcountry which I just stumbled upon:

'Cowboy Capitalism
The Art of Ping Pong Country in the New Berlin'

'This article draws on recent discussion regarding changes in city life 
by focusing on specific cultural spaces and social relations found in 
contemporary Berlin. “The Art of Ping Pong Country”—the union of ping 
pong and country music as a series of events bringing together artists, 
cultural entrepreneurs, and new media practitioners—highlights the 
temporal, social, spatial, and semiotic distinctions of the city's 
current scene, particularly as a manifestation of the overlapping 
contexts of work and play in a “culturalized economy.” Ping Pong Country 
is made up of a complex set of relationships that reveals the way 
artists and entrepreneurs in Berlin construct individual, group, and 
urban identities; how a particular relationship to flexible work 
patterns and urban lifestyles is negotiated; and how the city acquires 
and maintains its specific character and semantic force by evoking a 
particularly attractive structure of feeling as manifest in its 
deliberate “playfulness.”'

http://sac.sagepub.com/content/11/4/300.abstract

Well, err, all I can say is that I had a lot of fun constructing the 
city's "indivdual, group and urban identities" and acquiring and 
maintaining its "semantic force" that night...

http://www.pingpongcountry.de/




Am 13.01.2016 um 17:43 schrieb Perry Noid:
> http://dangerousminds.net/comments/bowie_elvis_warhol_black_star_connection_popism_eats_itself
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