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| - | Tomorrow is the feast of the [[Roman god]] [[Bacchus]], known by the Greeks as the [[Greek god]] [[Dionysus]]. In my hometown Sint Niklaas, there used to be a bar called [[Bacchus]]. That was in the late seventies and early eighties. | ||
| - | I had to wait until the 1990s and the first issue of [[Wired Magazine]] to be properly introduced to Bacchus via Camille Paglia's interview on her recently published ''[[Sexual Personae]]'' in which Paglia introduced me to the [[Nietzschean]] [[dichotomy]] of [[Apollonian and Dionysian]]. | + | # The [[river]] that flows through [[Rome]] in [[Italy]]. |
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| - | [[Dionysus]] was seen as the god of everything [[uncivilized]], of the [[innate]] [[wildness]] of humanity that the Athenians had tried to control. The [[Dionysia]] was probably a time to let out their inhibitions through highly emotional tragedies or [[irreverent]] comedies. During the ''[[pompe]]'' there was also an element of role-reversal - lower-class citizens could mock and jeer the upper classes, or women could insult their male relatives. This was known as ''[[aischrologia]]'' - αἰσχρολογία or ''[[tothasmos]]'', a concept also found in the [[Eleusinian Mysteries]]. | + | |
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| - | [[Bacchus]] is less wel documented in text, but all the better in painting (Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Caravaggio). His name is connected with ''[[bacchanalia]]'', a term in moderate usage today to indicate any [[drunken]] feast; drunken [[revel]]s; as well as [[binge]]s and [[orgy|orgies]], [[whether]] literally or figuratively. | + | |
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| - | The '''bacchanalia''' were [[wild]] and [[mystic]] [[festival]]s of the [[Roman mythology|Roman]] and Greek god [[Dionysus|Bacchus]]. Introduced into [[Rome]] from lower [[Italy]] by way of [[Etruria]] (c. [[200 BC]]), the bacchanalia were originally held in [[secret]] and [[women only|only attended by women]]. The festivals occurred on three days of the year in a grove near the [[Aventine Hill]], on [[March 16]] and [[March 17]]. Later, admission to the rites was extended to men and celebrations took place five times a month. According to [[Livy]], the extension happened in an era when the leader of the [[Dionysus|Bacchus]] cult was [[Paculla Annia]]. | + | |
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| - | '''Paculla Annia''' was a [[priestess]] from the southern Italy who, according to [[Livy]], largely changed the rules of [[Bacchanalia]]s so that regarding nothing as [[impious]] or [[forbidden]] became the very sum of [[Dionysus|Bacchus]]' [[cult]]. In the rites, men were said to have shrieked out [[prophecy|prophecies]] in an [[altered state of consciousness]] with frenzied bodily convulsions. Women, dressed as [[Bacchantes]], with hair [[dishevelled]], would run down to the [[Tiber]] with burning [[torch]]es, plunge them into the water, and take them out again. The rites gradually turned into sexual [[Orgy|orgies]], particularly among the men, and men who refused to take part were sacrificed. It is said these men were fastened to a machine and taken to hidden caves, where it was claimed they were kidnapped by the gods. The festivities were reported to the [[Roman Senate]] which authorized a full investigation. In [[186 BC]], the Senate passed a strict law (the ''[[Senatus consultum de Bacchanalibus]]'') [[prohibiting]] the Bacchanalia except under specific circumstances which required the approval of the Senate. Violators were to be executed. | + | |
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| - | [[Cecil Taylor]] @80 | + | |
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| - | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP5L8tjnB6w | + | |
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| - | Excerpt of [[Ron Mann]]'s [[1981]] "[[Imagine the Sound]]" documentary. | + | |
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| - | See also: [[free jazz]], [[atonality]], [[avant-garde jazz]] | + | |
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