[Dixielandjazz] Betty Boop in India

[Stephen G Barbone]

Below is a snip from the NY TIMES. I've added a youtube link to part  
of "Sita Sings The Blues". It is a stylized Indian (Hindu) version of  
Betty Boop singing a neat version of: "Who's That Knockin At My Door"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BVg1WzS5Co&feature=related

Cheers,

Steve Barbone

www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband





Hindu Goddess as Betty Boop? It’s Personal

By MARGY ROCHLIN  OAKLAND, Calif.
WHAT do a 3,000-year-old Sanskrit epic, a ’20s-era jazz singer and  
Indonesian shadow puppets have in common? They’re all part of the  
eclectic cultural tapestry that is “Sita Sings the Blues,” an 82- 
minute animated feature that combines autobiography with a retelling  
of the classic Indian myth the Ramayana, and that required its  
creator, the syndicated comic-strip artist Nina Paley, to spend three  
years transforming herself into a one-woman moving-picture  
studio. . . . . Because of an exception in the copyright act, public  
television stations can broadcast music without having to clear  
individual licenses, and “Sita” will be shown on the New York PBS  
station WNET on March 7, after which it will be available on the  
station’s Web site. “My thing,” Ms. Paley said in November, sounding  
glum, “is that I just want people to see it.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BVg1WzS5Co&feature=related