‘Independence’ for bantustans was universally rejected by the international community in
the late 1970s and early 1980s. How the status of Lesotho and Swaziland as
internationally recognised states deeply embedded in South Africa’s economic and
political orbit differed from that of the bantustans was clear in some cases, murky in
others. The a…[Read more]

En este artículo presentamos una primera aproximación a un conjunto de textos hasta ahora desconocidos del músico y musicólogo catalán exiliado Baltasar Samper, responsable, desde 1947 y hasta su muerte, de dirigir los trabajos etnomusicológicos de la Sección de Investigaciones Musicales del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes mexicano. Con esto q…[Read more]

The Irish Sea which separates Great Britain and Ireland has often been written about in terms of divisions, threats, and hazards. Facing each other across that sea, the coast of Wales and Ireland’s eastern seaboard have a more complex story to tell, one characterised by intimate if troubled lines of connection. A place of passage for centuries, t…[Read more]

Two sections of a book comparing creation myths from ancient Greece and Rome with their Japanese counterparts from the early 8th Century Kojiki (古事記, “Records of Ancient Matters”). These fusion essays are summations of previous book sections by Greek and Japanese authors on the elements of fire and air, respectively, and, drawing from Plato and J…[Read more]

How could the ideal of a universal brotherhood of mankind be realized in an age of nationalism, colonialism and culture wars? “With God, for fatherland and humanity?” is the first comprehensive study of masonic internationalism. It explores, with a focus on England, France, Germany, and Italy, how European masonic associations promoted or opposed…[Read more]

The “Spanish influenza” pandemic that struck Egypt in fall 1918 resulted in the death of eleven out of every one thousand people. Despite the mass suffering caused by the pandemic, it has been largely ignored by historians. I describe how the Egyptian public health service was unprepared for a major health crisis because resources were red…[Read more]

BB 41 – Es funkeln tausend Perlen in demGlas in meiner Hand – Thousand perls – piano solo –
paraphrase of Rebrov-version “Poj Zigan” from N.Nekrasov`s 1861 Коробейники peddler / Коробушка, box (of peddlers) – audio

BB 41 – Es funkeln tausend Perlen in dem Glas in meiner Hand – Thousand perls – piano solo –
paraphrase of Rebrov-version “Poj Zigan” from the poem Korobeiniki Коробейники peddler / Коробушка, box (of peddlers) by N.Nekrasov`s 1861 – sheetmusic

BB 38 – O sanctissima – O du froehliche – Weihnachtliche Spielmusik – Christmas Merry Go Round
– great organ – audio

BB 38 – O sanctissima – O du froehliche – Weihnachtliche Spielmusik – – Christmas Merry Go Round – great organ – sheetmusic – 2010, 2nd ed.
– said from Sicilian origin, not confirmed nor verified

BB 37 – Prelude Daughter Zion – great organ – 2010, 2nd. ed. – audio

BB 37 – Präludium Tochter Zion – Prelude Daughter Zion – great organ – – sheetmusic – 2010, 2nd ed.

Pirate radio still flourishes in dense, multiethnic cities such as Brooklyn, New York, despite the rise of Web radio. For immigrants in particular, radio sounds mark identity and community and (re)claim social spaces of work, commutes, and the home. It is not only lack of access to digital technologies or broadband that shapes radio’s relevance, b…[Read more]

This study explores Jamaican popular music’s changing engagement with globally networked media technologies. It combines ethnographic analysis of the street dance as a site of urban poor and Black resistance to colonial institutions with an analysis of song lyrics about video cameras at street dances. Newly networked technologies for circulating…[Read more]

Die Debatte um die politische Differenz stellt Kontingenz und Konfliktualität als fundamentale Eigenschaften des Politischen heraus. Dies birgt ein Problem für die postfundamentalistische Demokratietheorie, die auf Augenhöhe mit dieser Debatte argumentieren will: Durch die Kontingentsetzung aller normativen Begründungen ist zunächst unklar, welc…[Read more]

BB 9-2 – Kolokoltshik – Колоколъчик (odnozutshno gremit kolokoltshik – Однозвучно
гремит колокольчик ) – Eintönig klingt das Glöckchen – lonely bell – T.: I. Makarov – И.Макаров
M.: first Alexander Lvovich Gurilev (1853?) – А. Гурилев – here: melody of K. Sidorowicz / K.
Сидорович – piano – audio

BB 9-2 – Kolokoltshik – Колоколъчик (odnozutshno gremit kolokoltshik – Однозвучно
гремит колокольчик ) – Eintönig klingt das Glöckchen – lonely bell – T.: I. Makarov – И.Макаров – M.: first Alexander – Lvovich Gurilev (1853?) – А. – Гурилев – here: melody of K. Sidorowicz / K.
Сидорович – piano- sheetmusic

BB 9-1 – Kolokoltshik – Колоколъчик (odnozutshno gremit kolokoltshik)
Eintönig klingt das Glöckchen – lonely bell T.: I. Makarov – И.Макаров – M.: first Alexander Lvovich Gurilev (1853?) – А. Гурилев – here: melody of K. Sidorowicz / K. Сидорович – 2 vibraphones solo – sheetmusic

Maros River, all ungherese – Gipsy tune – Maros vize folyik cszendesen – piano solo – 2:10 – video (plus music plus pics from maros / Mures river)