Rakefet
18/04/2011
This is the lively song I choose for one who died today, recorded the year he was born. Axé.
Month: April 2011
Mujer Ladina
15/04/2011
“Mujer andina, te vengo a cantar mis penas y mis dolores,” says the huayno, but for this weekend I wanted to put up Greco-Portuguese and Sephardic music sung by other beautiful women. But video is not embedding for me and anyway I am in Greater Mexico now; in its honor I offer you Mujer ladina, … More Mujer Ladina
A Bad Experience
10/04/2011
The web camera on this computer turned itself on and I did not know it. All of a sudden as I was closing windows, the face of this woman rose up at me. I thought there was now a ghost in the computer, or a dead person behind the glass. A spirit. I realized what … More A Bad Experience
Ron Trent
09/04/2011
Axé.
I Danmark
08/04/2011
Axé.
On dorm la lluna blanca
07/04/2011
The Catalan anarchist Salvador Puig Antich was garroted March 2, 1974. We went down from Jutland at Easter, to spend a week in the sun. I signed up to study in Barcelona, and learned many Lluís Llach songs. This is one of the most beautiful. It is about the 1974 rebellion in Portugal, but I … More On dorm la lluna blanca
How To Move, or, I Am Not a Tourist
06/04/2011
My first academic job was in an area with which I was somewhat familiar, and where I knew some people. This made moving easy. My second was far away. In both, other new faculty soon began telephoning me to ask how to live there. I had not realized I was especially good at discovering this, … More How To Move, or, I Am Not a Tourist
Childhood Living
05/04/2011
I never paid a great deal of attention to this song as it was ubiquitous — on every radio station, in every faded dime store, and wafting from every surf wagon. But it came to me the other day and I have been thinking of it since. It really is quite brilliant. Axé.
Miguel Hernández
04/04/2011
Check out Joan Manuel Serrat singing this famous poem, and observe these amazing Civil War photographs from Spain. Hernández wrote the poem in a Nationalist prison, upon receiving a letter from his wife saying she and the child were living on bread and onions. Here, Maria de Medeiros sings it. Axé.
Monday Music
03/04/2011
…so as to get into things. This version of Viva mi patria Bolivia, from the concert at Sing Sing, was gone from the Internet but it is back, so we will post it again. Here is the original. ¡Adentro! Bolivia is one of the very best countries. Axé.
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