tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49482017859768405392011-06-28T17:20:09.807+01:00"As a West Indian who has lived in Britain for over sixty years, I have had ample time to reflect on my lack of any real sense of identity and belonging - a disillusionment not unconnected to the barrenness of a predominantly secular, materialist landscape - the degraded age in which we find ourselves" Blackness & The Dreaming Soul - Cy GrantCy Granthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05545440550994810269noreply@blogger.comBlogger101100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4948201785976840539.post-70895088587530853442008-07-26T12:12:00.006+01:002008-07-26T12:25:00.046+01:00

Cy's poems are sparks of light thrown off from a life lived to the fullest. They are rooted in the British West Indian colony of British Guiana, then track through the trauma of WWII Europe where as a RAF navigator the author was shot down over Holland and incarcerated in a Nazi prison camp. Having fought for the mother country, the racial bar on his chosen profession pushed Cy into show business

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Leading Articles from Members of the Scientific and Medical NetworkBeyond the Jargon: Redefining MulticulturalismCradle, Temple & Cosmos: A Genetic Odyssey The Way of the West: Race against Time has now been published in the Summer 2008 issue of Scientific & Medical Network Review

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The Way of the West -Race against TimeWhere are you making for? It takesSo many thousand years to wake.But will you wake for pity’s sake? [Christopher Fry: A sleep of prisoners] The fundamental message of my book, Blackness & the Dreaming Soul, is a plea for the West to wake; a plea for a reconstruction of the way in which we make our reality. The way of the West, it seems to me, is not the Way

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Reunited Cy Grant & Joost KlootwijkBBC London's Special Correspondent Kurt Barling travelled with former RAF Navigator Cy Grant to the town where two of his fellow crew members were killed in June 1943.Night after night bomber command sent hundreds of bombers towards targets in Germany. The strategy of saturation bombing to foreshorten the war was a controversial one, targeting as it did so many

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http://www.cygrant.com"The only meaningful life is a life that strives for the individual realization – absolute and unconditional – of its own particular law….to the extent that a man is untrue to the law of his being… he has failed to realize his life’s meaning". Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard

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"Shoving Leopard is proud to announce the publication of Cy Grant's latest book, Blackness and the Dreaming Soul. “..a masterful and compassionate assessment of the Western paradigm .. one of the top cultural studies of this decade. A masterwork"…. --Theodore D. Hall, Ph.D., author of "Over the Bones of the Dead-: Evolutionary Science--Past, Present & Future.""Backness & the Dreaming Soul does

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World War II experiences of a former 103 Squadron RAF navigator and POW from the Caribbean Anyone old enough to recall the innovative BBC TV programme ‘Tonight’, broadcast in the late 50s and early 60s, will surely remember Cy Grant, whose regular appearances on the show made him the first black entertainer to have a regular spot on British television (although he was already established as a

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Ring of Steel: Pan Sound and SymbolReview - Ian Dieffenthaller WASAFARI 2002 Ring of Steel traces the development of the steelpan: “The only acoustic musical instrument to be invented in the 20th century”. Grant’s book, which describes the transmutation of industrial waste – the oil drum – into highly tuned musical instrument, is offered as a paradigm for the development of the latter-day West

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The Cy Grant Album of International songsBibliographic DetailsPublisher: Bradbury Wood, (1960)Publication Date: 1960Binding: Hardcover

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STAGE: Member of the Lawrence Olivier Festival Co. London & New York, 1951-2This way to the Tomb, Arts Theatre, LondonComedy of Errors, Bristol Old Vic & Baalbeck Festival 196-Othello, Phoenix Theatre, Leicester, 1965Cindy Ella (with Cleo Laine and Elizabeth Welch) Garrick Theatre, London 1966The Roar of the Greasepaint, the smell of the Crowd - tour 196-Joseph and his multicoloured Dream coat,

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