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BCATS OF THE HEA*
Jeremy Marre follows the trail of
Romany music from Africa into Europe
Editeb by Michael Polling
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THE HCART OF THE DRAGON
This weekend, C4 viewers saw the
last programme in the repeateb series
The Heart Of The Dragon, which examines
everyday life and work in the People's
Republic of China.
This week's edition looks at the arts
in China, and explores the
philosophical and historical influences
which have shaped them and given them
their essential identity.
The Chinese view of the world -
religious, philosophical and artistic -
has traditionally been dichotomous.
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THE HEART THE D
On the one hand there is the material
or physical worlb, out of which one'
ordinary, day to day life is composed.
And on the other is the underlying
metaphysical world of spiritual
reality.
The material world is illusion; only
the spiritual world is real. The wise
man withdraws from the world of things
into the contemplation of their inner
reality.
So Chinese art has traditionally served
as a means of escape from the tedium or
tragedy of daily life. More >>>
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THE HEART OF THE DRAGON
Artist and audience alike can become
absorbed in the contemplation of inner
truth.
The underlying purpose of Chinese art
has traditionally been to reveal the
innermost spiritual reality of the
object under scrutiny.
Far from bei g id e, escapis
entertainment, art is the key to the
real world.
And this may help to explain the almost
religious veneration which the Chinese
have alw!ys accorded their greatest
artists. More >>>
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arts in China - poetry, painting and
calligraphy - have been closely allied.
A typical scroll will combine all three
arts: beside an ink painting will be a
poem on an allied topic, which will
itself be painted - with the same
brush - in beautiful calligraphy.
Both picture and calligraphy are
executed rapidly, in a single flow,
without hesitation or revision.
The artist must seize the inner reality
of his subject before he sets his brush
on the paper. Michael Polling
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BEATS OF THE HEART
Jeremy Marre's exploration of popular
music continues this week along the
Romany trail through Eastern Euqope.
The journey begins in Yugoslavia,
where almost a million Romany gypsies
now live.
Despite the fact that they form the
largest such population in Europe,
gypsies there are discriminateb against
and closely watched by the authorities.
Life for the camera rew filmin the
wasn' easy it er - th te m were
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BEATS OF THE HEA T
The Beats of the Heart crew received
official permission to film the
gypsies in Yugoslavia, but each time
they set the cameras up, police cars
appeareb and put a sto
Tvercoming such pe blems, they manage
to captupe vivid scenes of Romany ti
on film, including a glimpse of Moslem
gypsies gathering at a church to the
swirling zurla pipe music and drums.
The crew then moved on to Hungary, and
in Budapest they discovered a city
throbbing to the sound of 10,000
gypsy musicians.
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BEATS OF THE HEART
The music of gypsy performers in
Budapest is not, however, their own.
To please their clients the musicians
tend to modify Hungarian folk tunes.
This does not mean, however, that the
many gypsies in Hungary are losing
hostels gypsies assemale to hear
their own songs and folklore.
Yesterb!y's Beats of the Heaqt painteb
a bleak picture of Romany life,
but it is one where music and dance
play a vital part in holding a people
and culture together.
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