1. We understand ‘modernism’ by reference to its focus on authenticity and originality, and ‘post-modernism’ by a reactive emphasis on repetition and derivativeness. 2. If modernism ignores the role of discourse in shaping social representations, the post-modernist emphasis on discursive construction has tended to employ a socially unlocatable model of discourse. On 1. Is this … More Modernism and Avant-Garde
“But if subjectively the intention of rupture, of ‘beginning from zero’ (which if it does not absolutely negate the past, at least questions and attacks it) predominates, we understand, then, that all avant-garde movements propose a strategy – a word that, in order to return to a previous point, not only implies a disruption but … More Version Z
Did you know Joan and Mimi could sing cuecas, and that they sang this Bolivian anthem at the 1972 concert with B. B. King at Sing Sing? I discovered it while looking for Peruvian cuecas. Here is some commentary on the song by Rockoblogia: De la canción escrita por Apolinar Camacho: El boliviano tocó las … More Viva mi patria Bolivia
This translation is getting harder, and it needs annotation as well. Here, however, is the third section. It could use comments. I started doing the translation because I was not sure I understood the original. I then found that in order to make the text marginally readable in English, I must also stray on purpose … More St. Lucy and St. Lazarus III
Here is Caetano with Toni Costa on Trem das Cores. This celestial song invokes, among other things, “the blue silk of the paper in which the apple is wrapped” and “that blue which is a pure memory of a place.” Axé.
This post is going to be in Spanish, so if you do not read that exalted language, you are invited instead to read It’s Not You, It’s Your Apartment, on the horrors of dating poor housekeepers. Do not overlook the comments thread. More serious English language entertainment can be found in the abstracts of two … More El archipiélago de la vanguardia
The Archbishop of Lima and his conservative wing of the Church are attempting to intervene in academic affairs at the Catholic University of Peru, which maintains the Riva-Agüero archives. Casa Riva-Agüero | Jirón Camaná 459 | Lima – PERU Photo Daniel Duguay Peru21 has an editorial about this. There are elements of the backstory, which … More Jirón Camaná
I. The Nation, a publication the assiduous reader knows I follow with some regularity, has sent me this mail: Gary Tyler, black, now aged 48, is serving a life prison sentence in Louisiana State Penitentiary. He was convicted in 1975 for the murder of 13-year-old Timothy Weber, a white schoolboy who was shot during an … More Free Gary Tyler
Here are two sentences from Lakshmi Chaudhry: The problem isn’t that we are more sexist than racist as a society. It’s that race and gender are far too often pitted against each other, and one can be used to justify sins against the other. A sentence from me is that the point of understanding ‘intersectionality’, … More On ‘Intersectionality’
This is Country Joe McDonald on the I Feel Like I’m Fixin’ to Die Rag, at Woodstock 1969. We should be singing along now. Axé.
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