The Creators
The Creators is a non-fiction work of cultural history by Daniel Boorstin published in 1992 and is the second volume in what has become known as the Knowledge Trilogy. It was preceded by The Discoverers and succeeded by The Seekers.
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The Creators, subtitled A History of Heroes of the Imagination, is the story of mankind's creativity. It highlights great works of art, music and literature but it is more than a recitation or list. It is a book of ideas and the people behind those ideas. It encompasses architecture, music, literature, painting, sculpture, the performing arts, theater, religious expression and philosophy. It can be viewed as a companion to The Discoverers which chronicled the history of invention, exploration and technology. The Creators traces the creative process from pre-history Egypt to modern times and like The Discoverers, follows both a topical and chronological structure. Boorstin writes in "A Personal Note to the Reader", "After The Discoverers... "I was more than ever convinced that the pursuit of knowledge is only one path to human fulfillment. This companion book, also a view from the literate West, is a saga of Heroes of the Imagination. While The Discoverers told of the conquest of illusions - the illusion of knowledge - this will be a story of vision (and illusions) newly created..." If The Discoverers is the story of the inventive human mind then The Creators is the story of the searching soul. The work is in twelve major parts that have been grouped into four books.
The Creators (film)
The Creators: South Africa Through the Eyes of Its Artists is a 2012 South African documentary film produced and directed by Laura Gamse which interweaves the lives of diverse South African artists including Faith47, Cashril+, Warongx, Emile Jansen of Black Noise, Markus Wormstorm and Spoek Mathambo of Sweat.X, Blaq Pearl, and Mthetho Mapoyi.
Synopsis
The story begins in the mind of Cashril Plus, a twelve-year-old animator and son of graffiti artist Faith47. Through Cashril's eyes, we see his mother paint the streets and forgotten townships haloing Cape Town. Weaving through the lives of Faith47, Warongx (afro-blues), Emile Jansen (hip hop), Sweat.X (glam rap), Blaq Pearl (spoken word) and Mthetho (opera), the film culminates in an intertwined story. Born into separate areas of a formerly-segregated South Africa, the artists recraft history—and the impacts of apartheid—in their own artistic languages. The lens reveals the impulse behind the artists’ social consciousness, the individuals’ eccentricities, and each creator’s unique form of expression. Diving into the current of subversive art which fuels South Africa’s many clashing and merging cultures, The Creators brings into focus the invisible connections among strangers' disparate lives—and the creative expression used to traverse the divide. The result is an intimate, refreshing, and deeply revealing portrait of those remolding the legacy of apartheid.
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- Before the Fall released: 2011
- Jackpot / Kimble released: 1968
Before the Fall
Released 2011- Rollin' Danny
- Mr Pharmacist
- There's a Ghost in My House
- Victoria
- Pinball Machine
- Popcorn Double Feature
- Kimble
- Lost in Music
- I'm Going to Spain
- Strychnine
- People Grudgeful
- War
- Shut Up
- Beatle Bones 'n' Smokin' Stones
- The Mummy
- Jungle Rock
- I Come and Stand at Every Door
- $ F-Oldin' Money $
- This Perfect Day
- The Bourgeois Blues
- African Man
- Strange Town
- Transfusion
- Funnel of Love
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- The Weight released: 2000
The Weight
Released 2000- The Mission
- The Music
- We Waitin' (Call Waiting: Evidence & Iriscience)
- Heart Pound
- The Legacy...(Call Waiting: Marley Marl, Masta Ace & Craig G)
- That's My Word
- All Yours (Call Waiting: T La Rock)
- Kronkite
- Fonk Flavour (Cuts by Plus One)
- In and Out
- Zillo (Call Waiting: DJ Mighty Mi)
- Street Conexions
- Zooted
- Hoe's and Dough
- Creators (Rise on Top)
- (Another) Another World
- Internatio Nal Ghetto (Cuts by Juliano)
- W.A.R.
- The Aftermath
- No Love
- Before We Touch (Cuts by Juliano)
- Watch Us Touch
- Enter That Stage (Call Waiting: Madlib)
- The Cypher
- Skits, Blunts and Hip Hop (Call Waiting: Diamond D)
- Oh Yeah
- The Coming
- Hard Margin
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- I Love My Doo Wop Christmas, Volume 3 released: 2010
- Dootone Records: Doo Wop, Volume 3 released: 1998
- Itty Bitty Treasure Chest, Volume 3 released: 1997
- Itty Bitty Treasure Chest, Volume 1 released: 1996
- A Million Dollars Worth of Christmas Doo-Wop released: 1995
I Love My Doo Wop Christmas, Volume 3
Released 2010- White Christmas
- It's Christmas Once Again
- It's Christmas Time
- Christmas Prayer
- The Shrine of St Cecilia
- White Christmas
- Christmas Plea
- When I Kneel Down to Pray
- The Shrine of St Cecelia
- Toast of Lovers
- 'Tis the Season
- Christmas Will Soon Be Here
- My Letter to Santa
- The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)
- Season's Greetings (feat. Jimmy Docket)
- Bells of St Mary's
- White Christmas
- I'll Stay Home New Year's Eve
- Happy Holiday
- It's Christmas
- Santa Twist
- White Christmas
- Old Fashion Christmas
- Gee Whiz, It's Christmas
- Merry Merry Christmas Baby
Dootone Records: Doo Wop, Volume 3
Released 1998- Be Fair
- Trick Knees
- My Big Dream
- Shivers and Shakes
- Going Away Baby
- Chancing My Love
- Strange Love Affair
- Look at a Fool
- Baby Let's Make Some Love
- I've Had You
- So Touch
- Edna
- Please Don't Stop Me
- I Cried All Night
- Hard Time Lover
- Teardrop Eyes
- Baby Drop Top
- Teller of Fortune
- I Don't Want Nobody
- Darling Be Mine
- I Love the Life I Live
- The Cause of a Bad Romance
- My Love Is With You
- I Found Someone
- Back Home Again (feat. Willie Headen)
- Baby Doll
- Zorro
- A Fool's Fortune
Itty Bitty Treasure Chest, Volume 3
Released 1997- Come Home With Me
- Little Senorita
- Not a Hand to Shake
- Baby Only You
- Jump, Shake & Move
- Help-Murder-Police
- Mister Cool Breeze
- Tell Me You're Mine
- Life of Ease
- Booga Bear
- Since I Fell for You
- Spring
- Soft, Sweet and Really Fine
- You Don't Mean Me Right
- The Trap of Love
- Baby Child
- Grandpa's Gully Rock
- Someday We'll Meet Again
- Fools Rush In
- This Is a Miracle
- Playboy
- Come Home My Love
- Give In
- When You Are in Love
- Old MacDonald (Drops on Original Tape)
- You Came Along
- Tough Cat
- I Won't Be Your Fool
- I Want a Woman
Itty Bitty Treasure Chest, Volume 1
Released 1996- So Trance
- Golden Angel
- Wear My Ring
- September in the Rain
- Take My Hand
- Wedding Bells, Oh Wedding Bells
- My Last Dance With You
- My Tears
- Darling Be Mine
- (Why Don't You) Love Me
- This Is a Miracle
- Rose of Tangier
- Bashful Guy
- Sweet Little Angel
- Village of Love
- Look What You've Done
- Baby I Love You So
- I'm Wandering
- Zoom
- Girl of Mine
- My Baby-O
- Listen to the Rain
- Do-Li-Op
- Street of Loneliness
- Oh Joe Joe
- This Is Really Real
A Million Dollars Worth of Christmas Doo-Wop
Released 1995- Merry Christmas
- Let Christmas Ring
- Mambo Santa Mambo
- A Christmas Letter
- Santa Claus Baby
- Have a Merry Xmas
- Christmas in Jail
- I'll Miss You This Xmas
- Rockin' & Rollin' With Santa Claus
- Yuletide Love
- Rudolph, the Red Nosed Reindeer
- It's Almost Christmas
- Next Christmas
- A Cool, Cool Christmas
- Love for Christmas
- Xmas Is Coming at Last
- Silent Night
- Cowboy Santa Claus
- Santa Claus Boogie
- White Christmas
- Sing a Song of Xmas Cheer
- All I Want for Christmas Is You
- An Old Fashion Christmas
- The Christmas Spirit
- The Night Before Christmas
- I'll Stay Home New Year's Eve
- New Year's Eve
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Morning Dawning
by: The CreaturesThe dawning is over
the morning is over
and I can't look into your eyes
a cold November morning
a shivering new dawning
I watched your energy slide
It's sad to see it dying -- that fire once so lively
now three tears have fallen from my eyes
a dampened need for fire -- a kindled desire
the power just vanished from your eyes
the dawning is over
the mourning is over
I still can't look into your eyes
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