Our Culture, in Our Music, in Their World
After recently listening to my music collection I happened upon the fact that our culture –insofar as it is explicated in music – is not so suppressed. I therefore offer the following as examples of how elements of our culture can pierce the hegemonic (excuse the pun) status quo of the Chosen controlling and seeking to do us down. In this era of understandable pessimism and defeatism – where nothing seems to be going our…
Live And Let Live
By Jez Turner: First they came for the Fascists … First, they came for the Fascists and I did not speak up because I wasn’t a Fascist. Then they came for the Nazis, the neo-Fascists, the neo-Nazis and I did not speak up because I wasn’t any of those either. What did I say? “Live and let live”, and I got on with living my life. Then they came for the anti-Communists and I did not…
Happy St. Patrick’s Day
Happy St. Patrick’s day! For the music lovers among our readership I offer below some of my own personal favorite pieces of Irish music – if you have some to recommend don’t forget to leave a comment. Celtic Woman – A New Journey – Dulaman The Auld Triangle – Luke Kelly Song for Ireland: Dick Gaughan The Chieftains & Alison Krauss – Molly Ban Rocky Road to Dublin – Julie Fowlis…
Richard Wagner: Genius, Visionary, White Cultural Hero
This year marks the bicentenary of the birth of one of the greatest composers and poets in the history of Caucasian man: Richard Wagner. I do not throw the words ‘genius’ around like confetti, like many people do these days, but I would certainly use that epithet to describe this man. His genius is such that, in spite of being constantly castigated and deconstructed, his music has survived and been enjoyed by millions around the…