Stories about Music from August, 2007
Bulgaria: “Something Cultural”
A wonderful story of an attempt to experience “something cultural” in the middle of “a mostly peasant summer” in Sofia – from Petya of Bighead: “Nothing can make a falafel taste better than a little bit of violin in the background.”
Belarus: Jagger, Russian Military, Colonial Thinking
TOL's Belarus writes about “colonial thinking” of some bloggers, Mick Jagger's message for the Belarusians, and a Russian military base near Vilejka.
Estonia: Scandinavian Influence
Itching for Eestimaa writes about Scandinavian influence in Estonia (and the two Swedes who represented Estonia in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2002 and 2006).
Nepal: A new anthem
Kathmandu Speaks has a strong opinion on the new national anthem proposed for Nepal.
Slovenia: Best of the Slobs
The Glory of Carniola‘s Best of the Slobs roundup is here.
Jordan: Wadi Rum Concert
Ibrahim Owais from Jordan is still excited about a concert he attended two weeks ago.
Kannada: Telling Stories is a Good Deed!
Some movie makers capture the imagination of serious movie watchers all over: Kurosawa, Ray and Bergman, for example. And when someone of that stature dies, you are bound to get great responses, poignant, nostalgic, and meditative. Abhay Simha, who is a professional director himself, a graduate from the FTII, writes...
YouTube launched in Japan
Andreas at Chosaq writes about the launch of YouTube in Japan and hostile reactions from Japanese television, music and film companies.
Bangladesh: Enemy property act and Floods
In this weeks tour inside the Bangladeshi blogosphere we will discuss an old black law enacted in time of war being put to use by land encroachers and creating human rights abuse on minorities. We will also look at the dark truth that haunts women in Bangladesh and many parts...
Barbados, Bahamas: Crop Over & Junkanoo
Kadooment Day signals the end of the Crop Over festivities – Living in Barbados explains, offering interesting comparisons to the Bahamas’ Junkanoo festival.
Trinidad & Tobago: Drum Festival
Now is Wow attends a Muhtadi Drum Festival in Tobago.
Hong Kong: Government Promotion of DRM
I Resource Center (IRC, a company owned by the Hong Kong Government) announced yesterday that the song, “Just Because of You”, which celebrates the 10th anniversary of reunification, can be downloaded with DRM protection. Plastichk laughed at the practice as the song was meant to be distributed as wide as...
Uzbekistan: Pop music everywhere
Don't like pop music? Don't go to Uzbekistan in the summer, advises Joshua Kucera.
Africa: African music meets China
African music meets China, via Museke: “A couple of years ago, a friend showed me a video of a Chinese man singing Makossa songs. Zhen Ping Liu, popularly known as Liu de Karmer to his fans was the first ever and lone Chinese Makossa singer. The name of the song...
Serbia: “The Rolling Devils”
Anegdote writes about the Serbian Orthodox Church's unfavorable view of the Rolling Stones.
Taiwan: From music to rice–the people and the earth
Due to the big music market and the hot music industry, Taiwanese love and are familiar with pop songs and different kinds of music. In Yun-Ru Shih's article, based on Miao-Ru Chien's research: 台灣流行音樂產業的崛起起始自七零年代的民歌運動，到了八零年代末、九零年代初迅速成長到五十億台幣，1996年破百億後，1997年更達到歷來最高的123億台幣，在全球唱片市場排名由第21位竄升至第13位，在亞洲排名第二（僅次於日本）。（簡妙如,2002） The pop music industry in Taiwan rose in the folk music movement in 1970s. At the...
