{"id":96321,"date":"2016-03-31T09:18:16","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T13:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=96321"},"modified":"2016-03-31T10:30:01","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T14:30:01","slug":"in-tangier-with-a-beetle-and-a-tape-recorder-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/31\/in-tangier-with-a-beetle-and-a-tape-recorder-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"In Tangier with a Beetle and a Tape Recorder, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_96322\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/bowlesmorocco.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-96322\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-96322\" class=\"wp-image-96322\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/bowlesmorocco.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/bowlesmorocco.png 913w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/bowlesmorocco-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/bowlesmorocco-768x595.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-96322\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Bowles in Morocco, ca. 1970.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/worldviews\/wp\/2016\/03\/31\/imre-kertesz-nobel-prize-winning-novelist-and-holocaust-survivor-dies-at-86\/\" target=\"_blank\">Imre Kert\u00e9sz, a Holocaust survivor whose novels won him the Nobel Prize, died this morning at eighty-six<\/a>. \u201cI was able use my own life to study how somebody can survive this particularly cruel brand of totalitarianism,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/6235\/the-art-of-fiction-no-220-imre-kertesz\" target=\"_blank\">he told <em>The Paris Review <\/em>in 2013<\/a>. \u201cI didn\u2019t want to commit suicide, but then I didn\u2019t want to become a writer either\u2014at least not initially. I rejected that idea for a long time, but then I realized that I would have to write, write about the astonishment and the dismay of the witness\u2014Is\u00a0<em>that <\/em>what you are going to do to us? How could we survive something like this, and understand it, too?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Olivia Laing\u2019s book <em>The Lonely City <\/em>takes David Wojnarowicz as one of its subjects. With Rebecca Mead, she looked at some of his early work: \u201cThe other day, Laing was in New York, and she stopped by the Fales Library, at N.Y.U., where Wojnarowicz\u2019s archive is kept: photographs, diaries, recordings, and an orange crate crammed with odds and ends which he called his \u2018Magic Box.\u2019 \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2016\/04\/04\/olivia-laings-meditation-on-an-aids-activist\" target=\"_blank\">It feels like his work has this capacity for resisting all those silencings and false histories<\/a>,\u2019 Laing said, as she opened a folder containing an early series, \u2018Arthur Rimbaud in New York.\u2019 The photographs, taken by Wojnarowicz in the late seventies, show a figure wearing a mask of the French poet\u2019s face while riding the subway, masturbating in bed, wandering the decrepit Hudson River piers. \u2018I can\u2019t think of another artist who works in that same way\u2014the more that attempts at silencing happen, the more potent they become,\u2019 she said.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>In 1947, Paul Bowles moved to Tangier and began writing <em>The Sheltering Sky<\/em>. Ten years later, he returned to the city to make field recordings of its vibrant music, now reissued as <em>The Music of Morocco<\/em>: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/daily\/2016\/03\/30\/hypnotic-clamor-music-morocco-paul-bowles\/\" target=\"_blank\">As Bowles saw it, Morocco\u2019s sounds were forms of experience that had yet to be contaminated by Western influence<\/a> \u2026 Bowles set off on his first recording expedition in mid-July 1959 in a Volkswagen Beetle that belonged to a Canadian expatriate friend, Christopher Wanklyn. He was forty-eight years old \u2026 Over the next five months, they took four separate trips\u2014covering a distance Bowles estimated at 25,000 miles\u2014returning to Tangier for a few days after each journey so that Bowles could check in on his wife, who was ill. Bowles recorded 250 pieces of music, in twenty-two separate locations, with an unwieldy twenty-eight-pound Ampex 601 tape recorder.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>In midcentury Britain, where it was officially illegal to be gay, a secret language called Polari emerged as a means of clandestine communication: \u201cPolari is a language of, in linguistic professor Paul Baker\u2019s words, \u2018fast put-downs, ironic self-parody and theatrical exaggeration.\u2019 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/the-forgotten-secret-language-of-gay-men\" target=\"_blank\">Its vocabulary is derived from a mishmash of Italian, Romani, Yiddish, Cockney rhyming slang, backslang\u2014as in <em>riah<\/em> to mean \u2018hair\u2019\u2014and cant, a language used by eighteenth-century traveling performers, criminals, and carnival workers<\/a>. Many of the words are sexual, anatomical, or euphemisms for\u00a0police \u2026 During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the language was used by merchant seafarers and people who frequented the pubs around London\u2019s docks. In the 1930s it was spoken among the theater types of the West End, from which it crossed over to the city\u2019s gay pubs, gaining its status as the secret language of gay men.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>If you like your dead languages a little older, try Etruscan. Though few examples of it survive, archaeologists have just unearthed a five-hundred-pound slab of sandstone with seventy legible letters and punctuation marks\u2014so things are about to get easier for the novice speakers. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/287129\/unearthed-inscription-may-unlock-mysteries-of-the-etruscan-language\/\" target=\"_blank\">Researchers\u00a0with the\u00a0University of Florence will be examining and conserving the sixth-century BCE stone<\/a> \u2026 Being that it was found at a temple, salvaged for its foundation some 2,500 years ago, it\u2019s likely the writing may relate to religion, potentially filling in gaps in historic knowledge of Etruscan practices \u2026 Deciphering Etruscan can still be difficult, as no literature or major written work still exists, and although it shares characteristics with the Greek alphabet, it was distinct.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imre Kert\u00e9sz, a Holocaust survivor whose novels won him the Nobel Prize, died this morning at eighty-six. \u201cI was able use my own life to study how somebody can survive this particularly cruel brand of totalitarianism,\u201d he told The Paris Review in 2013. \u201cI didn\u2019t want to commit suicide, but then I didn\u2019t want to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[15825,21746,18066,9789,10968,687,5875,46,17802,4301,21745],"class_list":["post-96321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-david-wojnarowicz","tag-etruscan","tag-field-recordings","tag-holocaust","tag-imre-kertesz","tag-language","tag-morocco","tag-music","tag-olivia-laing","tag-paul-bowles","tag-polari"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 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