[Quincy Lehr]

I generally try to keep my non-poetic endeavors off the board, but given that the latest song from my musical project, La Tendance Jacobine, is a setting of a Claude McKay sonnet, "The Harlem Dancer," I figured there might be some interest. It's in 3/4 time; it has a cool guitar part (two, actually); and it has no hint of droopy art song or the dreaded NPR tote bag about it. Here's the Bandcamp link. It should be live at pretty much every place you can buy music in the very near future.

https://latendancejacobine.bandcamp....CrGB2nJ7zfmBZA

[Mark McDonnell]

Very nice indeed, Quincy. Lovely guitar solo before the sestet (which isn't a phrase I say often enough here)

[F.F. Teague]

Thanks for sharing this, Quincy. I enjoyed listening to it.

Best wishes,
Fliss

[Sarah-Jane Crowson]

Ooh, I like this too - and the other track you've got on there. I like how the resistance in the poem works with the resistance in the style of the music, I think.

Please more poems/music about Gen X, I sometimes worry that there are only about five of us out there still standing.

What is NPR?

Sarah-Jane

[Mark McDonnell]

Researchers and popular media use the mid-to-late 1960s as starting birth years and the late 1970s to early 1980s as ending birth years, with the generation being generally defined as people born from 1965 to 1980

From Wikipedia: "Generation X".

Well, I'm slap in the middle, Sarah-Jane, born in 1972. Still, apart from remembering the same children's TV shows and Top 40 hits, as a way of grouping people I reckon it's about as reliable as astrology.

NPR is National Public Radio, a popular news and culture radio station. I think it's probably closest to Radio 4 over here, or like if The Guardian had a radio station, maybe. I'm guessing sporting an "NPR tote bag" has become a meme among people on the left for an insipid, mainstream, slightly smug, broadly liberal/centrist position, with a healthy dose of "virtue signalling" thrown in. Quincy will correct me if I'm wrong, I'm sure.

Anyway. Cool song!