Of blood and song

  • depth of grief, as meaaured in forms of keening and ululation
  • degree of exuberance, as found in music and dance, popular and professional
  • ritual solemnity and grandeur, on religious and state occasions
  • quantity of written poetry bought or borrowed from libraries
  • size of audiences for spoken poetry readings
  • number of poets (in particular) imprisoned for their writings
  • Qualitative equivalents of these values would also be of interest, though even harder to obtain and verify in any objective manner..

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    1. Scott:

      The only comment I can leave her Charles, is this offering. It’s an old song that was on the “Black Hawk Down” soundtrack:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj2j7R1NL-s