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Rigālia: June 2008

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Monday, June 9, 2008. My First Baltic Publication. Baltic Times Film Review: Sex and the City. Posted by Whit Bernard. Thursday, June 5, 2008. My most sincere apologies to SIA "Latvijas Balzams" for my unintentional appropriation of their smooth and satisfying vodka brand. My only consolation is that this blog is also triple-filtered for your enjoyment. There will be legitimate content soon, I promise. Till then, enjoy the weather. George Soros should knight me. Posted by Whit Bernard.

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Rigālia: December 2007

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Tuesday, December 11, 2007. Kim Jong Ill and Zarin Mehta, united in music's most tired alibi. The words “music” and “politics” have been printed much closer together than usual this week, but not without the usual hand-wringing. The New York Philharmonic, we are told, will travel to North Korea for 48 hours during a concert tour of Asia in February. The New York Times published a summary. Of course one can expect comments of this ilk from the mouthpiece of a totalitarian regime – Kim Jong Ill&#8217...

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Rigālia: COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT ALERT

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Thursday, June 5, 2008. My most sincere apologies to SIA "Latvijas Balzams" for my unintentional appropriation of their smooth and satisfying vodka brand. My only consolation is that this blog is also triple-filtered for your enjoyment. There will be legitimate content soon, I promise. Till then, enjoy the weather. George Soros should knight me. Posted by Whit Bernard. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). FRANK ZAPPA QUOTE OF THE DAY. PICTURES OF CENTRAL ASIA. My First Baltic Publication.

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Rigālia: "Approximate list of foreign music groups and artists whose repertoires contain ideologically harmful compositions"

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Monday, April 7, 2008. Approximate list of foreign music groups and artists whose repertoires contain ideologically harmful compositions". January, 1985 Directive from the Ukrainian KOMSOMOL, as cited in Alexei Yurchak, E verything was Forever, Until it Was No Mor. E New York: Princeton, 2006, p215. Group Name: Type of Propaganda). 1 Sex Pistols: punk, violence. 2 B-52s: punk, violence. 3 Madness: punk, violence. 4 Clash: punk, violence. 5 Stranglers: punk, violence. 6 Kiss: neofascism, punk, violence.

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Rigālia: February 2008

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Tuesday, February 26, 2008. Posted by Whit Bernard. Sunday, February 24, 2008. Is China the new Latvia? Juris Dreifelds, Latvia in Transition. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1996. I came to Riga under the impression that the folklore revival movement was the first manifestation of Latvia’s “Third National Awakening” in the 1980s, but I have since learned that the first group to directly challenge the Soviet regime was in fact an environmental activism group, the VAK. It also struck a chord wi...

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Rigālia: "protest the contamination of our cultures" [?!?]

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Wednesday, April 2, 2008. Protest the contamination of our cultures" [? Resolution on the Use of Music in Physical or Psychological Torture. Whereas, we, the Board of Directors of the American Musicological Society, join the chorus of protest and dissent against the use of physical and psychological torture, finding such torture incompatible with respect for the dignity of all persons; and. Approved 15 March 2008. Board of Directors, American Musicological Society". Posted by Whit Bernard. This has nothi...

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Rigālia: folk, völk, and tauta

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Tuesday, April 1, 2008. Folk, völk, and tauta. The below was posted at the bottom of the recent New York Times. Of The Singing Revolution. A documentary film about the anti-soviet protest movements in Estonia in the 1980s. Correction: December 29, 2007. What interests me is the way "folk songs" are defined - they cannot be "written by composers.". And yet many people refer to this choral repertoire as "folk songs." Are they incorrect in doing so? Or, for the few remaining Herderians out there, a nation.

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Rigālia: March 2008

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Thursday, March 27, 2008. The Denial of Depth. Depth Unfortunately I forgot to bring a copy of Raymond Williams’s Keywords. To Riga, but it must be in there. If one of the three people who will read this has a copy, look it up for me. Of a recent collaboration by Philip Glass and Leonard Cohen. I should lay may cards on the table: I am responding to Hajdu’s analysis, not his opinions, but the work he reviews, entitled Book of Longing. 8220;…The singers Glass employs on Book of Longing scarcely help...

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Rigālia: April 2008

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Monday, April 7, 2008. Approximate list of foreign music groups and artists whose repertoires contain ideologically harmful compositions". January, 1985 Directive from the Ukrainian KOMSOMOL, as cited in Alexei Yurchak, E verything was Forever, Until it Was No Mor. E New York: Princeton, 2006, p215. Group Name: Type of Propaganda). 1 Sex Pistols: punk, violence. 2 B-52s: punk, violence. 3 Madness: punk, violence. 4 Clash: punk, violence. 5 Stranglers: punk, violence. 6 Kiss: neofascism, punk, violence.