> Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 12:45:12 +0100
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> Subject: Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] Doctor Dee
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> Melissa, fantastic ... Could you give us a review for the list? I think that it has been lazy journalism to suggest that it's operatic - Monkey certainly was not - and from what I've seen in the way of previews Albarn provides a narrative chorus on an acoustic guitar. I hope that it's good x
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> Dave
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> Dr Dave Green
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> Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
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> Society for the Academic Study of Magic (SASM):
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> http://www.sasm.co.uk
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> From: Society for The Academic Study of Magic [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Melissa Harrington [[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 01 July 2011 12:09
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> Subject: Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] Doctor Dee
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> We're going, I absolutley hate opera, but am intrigued enough sit through
> this, hoping Albarn will make the music more palatable than real opera. We
> are going with members of our Enochian group, on a trip organised by my
> Dee/Kelley obsessed husband. He was happy to be left alone with free range
> of the magical rooms with their wax works standing on a carpet printed with
> the sigillum dei Ameth in the tourist office in the tower at Charles Bridge
> in Prague recently, where they are well feted. Although Dee had a glittering
> life he died poor and somewhat perplexed, the angels told him he would be
> remembered world wide forever, (is this any recompense I wonder), and this
> seems to be true; as well as the centuries that Enochia has not died away
> in, and its influence on literature and occulture, this year I have read
> reviews in main stream papers of two kids books that feature Dee, and he
> seems to be popping up more each year.
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> regards
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> Melissa
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Green" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Friday, July 01, 2011 9:47 AM
> Subject: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] Doctor Dee
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>
> Dear all,
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> I am not sure that there has been any discussion on the list of Damon
> Albarn's (of Blur fame) new musical based on the life of John Dee and due to
> open in Manchester, UK, around now. Here is a short interview with Albarn:
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> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/opera/8606376/Damon-Albarn-interview-for-Dr-Dee-opera-Manchester-International-Festival.html
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> I liked Monkey a lot, but not so convinced about this ...
>
> Dave x=