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Improvised Music — an Act of Racial Liberation?

Improvised Music — an Act of Racial Liberation?

Historically, (free) jazz improvisation served as a vehicle for racial justice in the US. But to what extent can improvised music liberate…
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An Unsettled Saga — Queer in Romania

An Unsettled Saga — Queer in Romania

Man/female are social constructs–normative and restrictive. My sexual truth is behind your personal beliefs.
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Facing the Classical Music

Facing the Classical Music

When it comes to race and equality issues, restarting classical music performances may have happened at the right time.
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Andrei Rusu
IN CONVERSATION
In Conversation with Cedrik Fermont, the Noise Nomad

In Conversation with Cedrik Fermont, the Noise Nomad

“Oppression will never prevent artists from being creative, quite the opposite.”
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Damir Imamović — The Sevdah Master of Sarajevo

Damir Imamović — The Sevdah Master of Sarajevo

Rooted in Turkish culture from a time when Sarajevo was a major administrative centre for the Ottoman empire, Sevdalinka is Bosnian folk…
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DESTINATIONS
On the Trails of a Banned Language

On the Trails of a Banned Language

The tradition of oral expression known as a dengbêjî, the job of a dengbêj — a ‘soundteller’- lies at the foundation of traditional…
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Deflating History via Abandoned Pipe-Organs in Transylvania

Deflating History via Abandoned Pipe-Organs in Transylvania

What if suddenly the organ of wishful symmetry can not be returned to yesterday’s sovereignty, what if the loop of the Holy Market turns…
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Stefan Fraunberger
Radiola State of Mind: The Strange Case of Reggae in São Luís, Brazil

Radiola State of Mind: The Strange Case of Reggae in São Luís, Brazil

São Luís is one of Brazil’s most beguiling and unusual cities. The capital of the state of Maranhão in the country’s far northeast, this…
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David Katz
Investigating the Sundanese Ritual of Kasenian Réak

Investigating the Sundanese Ritual of Kasenian Réak

Kasenian Réak is a community-based art; music performance in Java’s Sundanese culture celebrating life achievements and occasionally city…
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PERSPECTIVE
The Complex Case of Romanian Folklore in Pasolini’s Oedipus Rex

The Complex Case of Romanian Folklore in Pasolini’s Oedipus Rex

Across the rocky desert unfolding outside the walls of a fortified Ouarzazate kasbah, an old, scantily-clad shepherd makes his way through…
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Cosmin Nicolae
Improvised Music Depends on Failure

Improvised Music Depends on Failure

There is no reason to engage in the act of improvisation if you know what you are going to do and what is going to happen.
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Andrew W Choate
Conceptual Listening

Conceptual Listening

Listening is conceptual. It stimulates the imagination and aesthetic consciousness on what music can be.
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