I also find this interesting. The editor, Robert
Hass, says the closest Western artistic style to renga
is the "...American jazz band of the 1920's". He has
this to say about the similarities as follows:
"The part that remains strange is the renga
itself. There is nothing quite like this
collaborative and improvisatory activity in the
western literary tradition. The nearest thing to it,
perhaps - a group of artists who get together to
perform, improvising on one another's themes within a
context that is, in the end, concerned with the group
production, under the direction of a master - is the
American jazz band of the 1920's. There are other
similarities, too: a popular medium, reverence for
masters, styles, soloists of the past, rival styles in
the same city, different traditions in different
cities, travel and performance as a means of spreading
a group's style, and art as an expression of freedom,
without isolation, in a very limiting social context.
In this way, if in no other, the nearest thing to
Basho's hokku in the West in the twentieth century is
Louis Armstrong's solo in 'Tight Like That' or 'Potato
Head Blues'."
Didn't I read somewhere that the 1920's where an
effort of the intellectual level over the social
level? Did I read this in Pirsig's works somewhere?
gray,
very windy,
turkey bacon cooking,
SA
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