The scope of the traditions related to Mahishasur is vast. There is a memorial of him in Bundelkhand, preserved by the Archaelogical Survey of India. Khajuraho’s world-famous temples also have carvings of Mahishasur.

On 9 October 2014, the police had raided the office of Forward Press. Some people associated with Hindu organizations had a c…[Read more]

यह बुंदेलखंड स्थित महोबा का यात्रा संस्मरण है।
इसमें लेखक पौराणिक मिथक महिषासुर से संबंधित स्थलों की खोज में निकलता है।
वर्ष 2011 में जवाहर लाल नेहरू यूनिवर्सिटी के शोधार्थियों द्वारा महिषासुर को दलित, पिछड़े और आदिवासियों का पौरणिक नायक के रूप से प्रचारित किए जाने के बाद हंगामा खड़ा हो गया था। लेखक उस समय एक पत्रिका में प्रबंध-संपादक के रूप म…[Read more]

Mahishasur was the mythological hero of the Bahujan communities of India. According to D.D. Kaushambi, Mahishasur’s realm was Mahoba in Bundelkhand. In connection with the research for my book, I reached Mahoba on 2 October 2015. Mahishasur’s memories still survive in the folk traditions of Mahoba. He is known as Maikasur, Kaaras Dev, Gwal Bab…[Read more]

We wrote this report in December 2015. In this report, we have tried to bring out the ideology of the organisers of Mahishasur Day, and their strategy for cultural-social change.
When, on 25 October 2011, a handful of students of Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University celebrated Mahishasur Martyrdom Day for the first time, no one could have i…[Read more]

If we closely study the recent string of incidents in JNU while keeping their background in mind, we will realize that the Bahujan-Left unity had set alarm bells ringing in the RSS camp. To grasp this better, we will have to revisit the first Mahishasur Martyrdom Day, organized by the All India Backward Students’ Forum (AIBSF) in JNU in October 2…[Read more]

A look at the brief history of this band from central Wisconsin in the 1880’s

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]

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]

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