Interesting ethnic folkways
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luka
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Feels like 1241 all over again
Miss the good old days.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_on_the_Ice presumably though interestingly a year of massive Mongol incursions into Europe https://forums.armchairgeneral.com/...02-no-mongol-withdrawal-from-europe-in-1241ad
Miss the good old days.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_on_the_Ice presumably though interestingly a year of massive Mongol incursions into Europe https://forums.armchairgeneral.com/...02-no-mongol-withdrawal-from-europe-in-1241ad
other_life
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was told by some nice gangly weirdo at a party at the age of 14 that he traced his ancestry back to central asia and india and that the root of all western guitar music is stuff like this, recommended this specific chune. paging third?
long 8 year old argument about nationality in the comments, of course.
and obligatory:
"4mer thxt
1 year ago
bless up eurasia
common ancestors' playing singing | dances and tongues in common
4"
at the extreme pole:
"ali al
6 years ago
bastard,mispegotten....
1"
long 8 year old argument about nationality in the comments, of course.
and obligatory:
"4mer thxt
1 year ago
bless up eurasia
common ancestors' playing singing | dances and tongues in common
4"
at the extreme pole:
"ali al
6 years ago
bastard,mispegotten....
1"
other_life
bioconfused
of course people debate where zoroaster was from
but on spaceship earth, with plane, bomb, and gun... it's all one or none, baby.
but on spaceship earth, with plane, bomb, and gun... it's all one or none, baby.
blissblogger
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protochronism is a cool word
invented traditions is a common thing probably across most countries and peoples i should have thought
it's also a microgenre subject for historians - Hugh Trevor Roper did a book called The Invention of Scotland, about how most of the elements of Scottish tradition and folklore were actually cobbled together long after the fact
a parallel would be with genres and music traditions - which often have mythified origin stories ... received wisdom and legend encrusting over the messier truth
what's the famous Joan Didion quote about needing stories to live?
invented traditions is a common thing probably across most countries and peoples i should have thought
it's also a microgenre subject for historians - Hugh Trevor Roper did a book called The Invention of Scotland, about how most of the elements of Scottish tradition and folklore were actually cobbled together long after the fact
a parallel would be with genres and music traditions - which often have mythified origin stories ... received wisdom and legend encrusting over the messier truth
what's the famous Joan Didion quote about needing stories to live?
blissblogger
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yodelling is insane isn't it?
the technique involved must be staggering
still has a following in various parts of Europe, but during a swathe of the early-to-mid 20th Century it was a major form of popular music, partly through it filtering into early country with the yodelling cowboy phenomenon
this dude is supposed to be Mariah Carey of yodelling
the technique involved must be staggering
still has a following in various parts of Europe, but during a swathe of the early-to-mid 20th Century it was a major form of popular music, partly through it filtering into early country with the yodelling cowboy phenomenon
this dude is supposed to be Mariah Carey of yodelling
blissblogger
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Jodeln ist cool
actually this girl's more like the Mariah Carey (Fritz would be i dunno the Al Green)
actually this girl's more like the Mariah Carey (Fritz would be i dunno the Al Green)
I have a really amazing yodelling LP somewhere. I'll post a Discogs link if I can find it. It's off the hook but the name is long and Swiss so eludes me.
This is the best record on Folkways: https://folkways.si.edu/street-and-...uble/african-american-music/album/smithsonian
Proto-rap field recording, improvisational doo wop ghetto jams by 6 kids in lockdown in NY, 1959.
This is the best record on Folkways: https://folkways.si.edu/street-and-...uble/african-american-music/album/smithsonian
Proto-rap field recording, improvisational doo wop ghetto jams by 6 kids in lockdown in NY, 1959.
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luka
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Quebecois perfume folk
firefinga
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Reading a fascinating book about diet and dentition in isolated Swiss valleys (and in isolated communities around the world) in the early 1930s.
In the Loetschental one evening each August, the menfolk would light fires on surrounding mountainsides and yodel "one for all and all for one" through their perfectly white teeth 'til the early dawn.
This was just before the government built a road up there and a Spar opened selling white bread and jam, which fucked their teeth like everyone else's forever, of course.
In the Loetschental one evening each August, the menfolk would light fires on surrounding mountainsides and yodel "one for all and all for one" through their perfectly white teeth 'til the early dawn.
This was just before the government built a road up there and a Spar opened selling white bread and jam, which fucked their teeth like everyone else's forever, of course.
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