The Friday Canon: FRANK SINATRA

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Swingin' crooner Frank notched up 31 UK Top 40 hit singles, but which ones are the best of the bunch? You get TEN ticks to decide...

[Poll #1016325]

Donna Canon results up later.

Comments

another direction

[anthonyeaston.livejournal.com]

what about pulp sf and fandom?

Re: another direction

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

sf didn't really divide internally into niches until the 60s, i don't think -- when the new wave arrived, elements of golden-age content became straight kids-stuff fare (for example andre norton increasingly wrote for children; i don't think she'd set out to when she started, and her sf style didn't really change)

reflexivity and nostalgia-for-my-own-tastes-as-a-teen maybe arrives with star wars in movies (lucas recapping HIS tastes as a teen, but not as a "matured teen"; so it's not like capitol-era sinatra's rlationship to late 30s swing); matured reflexivity becames SF's "thing" with william gibson's "the gernsback continuum", tho arguably delany -- a very reflexive and self-aware writer -- had gone there a lot earlier (but i don't think he took many readers with him)

the sf and monster movie stuff in the 50s is more consciously adolescent in aim than the same material in the 20s or 30s