Marv Gaye: The Power and the Glory - The Village Voice

Contents:

• GAYA GLORY
• MARV GAYE: THE POWER AND THE GLORY
• GAYA
• 10 ADU GAYA PEMA THE GLORY SAAT DI DRAMA DAN KEHIDUPAN NYATA
• 7 ADU GAYA RAMBUT PEMA DRAKOR ‘THE GLORY’ DI DRAMA & KEHARIANNYA

GAYA GLORY

” In the bedroom, behd closed doors, drsed a robe and stockg p, his face vered wh a facial mask, Marv Gaye acpanied by three biceped roadi (bodyguards?

Later, after Berry had tablished Motown as an pennt label, Marv cut The Soulful Moods of Marv Gaye, a llectn of MOR standards done wh a b of jazz flavor.

“Hch Hike, ” a thumpg boogie turn that aga lled for a rougher style than Gaye enjoyed, was produced by Stevenson and his bright young assistant Clarence Pl. For all his sex appeal and tert sexualy (“you make a person thk you’re gog to do somethg, but never do until you’re ready”), Gaye wanted to assert his physil superry over other men. In his way, what Gaye did was reerate electronilly the polyrhythmic Ain unrpngs of black Amerin mic and reasss the domtic polyphony which is s lear extensn.

MARV GAYE: THE POWER AND THE GLORY

In fact, if one were to say that Jam Brown uld be the Fletcher Henrson and Count Basie of rhythm and blu, then Marv Gaye is obvly s Ellgton and Mil Davis. Part of the reason for Gaye’s trospectn was a seri of personal dramas — a stly divorce om Anna, a temptuo marriage to a woman 17 years his junr, nstant creative hassl wh Motown and antagonism wh his father over relign, money, and his mother.

Drsed as dapperly as any nightclub star, standg before an dience of die-hard sports fans, and some of the world’s greatt athlet, Gaye turned out our natn’s most nfg melody, assertg an athetic and tellectual power that rocked the hoe. Gaya (aka Kaya or Karak) was a nferatn which led central-southern Korea durg the Three Kgdoms perd om the 1st to 6th century CE.

GAYA

The pensula was domated by Gaya's more powerful neighbourg kgdoms of Goguryeo (Koguryo), Baekje (Paekche), and Silla, but Gaya, often the fotten enty this perd, was neverthels rich iron ore and their craftsmen beme highly skilled at fashng iron objects such as armour and weapons. The tradnal dat for the Gaya nferacy are 42-532 CE, however, morn historians prefer to emphasise the enty's more certa existence om the 2nd century CE.

The nferatn nsisted of six trib, the most powerful of which were the Dae Gaya and Guya trib, wh the latter later known as the Bon Gaya ('Origal').

10 ADU GAYA PEMA THE GLORY SAAT DI DRAMA DAN KEHIDUPAN NYATA

There are few tails available on the workg of the Gaya stat or daily life, but we n image a siar mol to the ntemporary Three Kgdoms where a royal fay domated a hierarchil aristocracy which, turn, erned the provc domated by a farmg peasantry. Throughout their history, the Gaya stat were nstantly harassed by their neighbours the Silla and Baekje kgdoms and nsequently never had the opportuny to form a more centralised state which polil stabily might have permted. Then when the Silla kgdom expand the 6th century CE, Gaya's alliance wh Baekje did no good at all and Bon-Gaya was nquered and stroyed (532 CE), as was Daegaya (562 CE) and the other important Gaya towns.

The issue is loured by natnalistic bias so that some historians claim that Gaya was a Japane lony while others propose that horse rirs om the Eurasian steppe me to Japan via Gaya and troduced the burial tumul to that culture. Evince is lackg eher way, although most scholars agree that the Gaya was the more advanced culture and recent fds of iron horse armour, notably om a 5th century CE tomb, suggt that the Gaya did master the e of that animal.

7 ADU GAYA RAMBUT PEMA DRAKOR ‘THE GLORY’ DI DRAMA & KEHARIANNYA

Early relatns wh Han Cha is evinced by 1st-century CE Che fds at Bon-Gaya and by the prence of the slopg kiln ed by Gaya potters. Gaya artists produced grey stoneware clay pottery the form of stemmed cups, horn-shaped cups, tall jars wh pierced stems, and spouted vsels the form of ducks, sho, warrrs, boats, and even ho. Gaya potters likely passed on this novatn to Japan where the famo sueki (or sue) stoneware would be produced as a rult.

Another succsful export was the gayagm (kayagum), a zher wh 12 silk strgs thought to have been vented by Kg Gasil the 6th century CE, which would be taken up by micians Japan and which remas a potent symbol of Korean culture even today. In the 4th century CE, the tombs of the Gaya typilly took the form of rectangular or oval p grav set to natural mounds. As already mentned, many tombs have equtrian equipment such as iron armour, saddle parts, bs, and stirps suggtg the horse was an important part of Gaya culture and warfare.