Tag: 1920s
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Sita Sings the Blues; or why music licensing stifles creativity
Sita Sings The Blues is a wonderful film mixing a Sanskirt ancient epic with great 1920’s music and incredible animation. Nina Paley spent 3 years doing this I think partly autobiographical animation – in parts incredibly breathtaking, laugh-out-loud funny, charming, and moving. So can you see it? I mean those 1920’s songs must be out…
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depression: new digital debris!
OK a lot of you may not even have heard of Radio Clash’s shy sibling, the arts/experimental podcast digital debris. Well finally got to the 3rd proper episode ‘depression‘ I go back to 1929 via 78. 2(00)9 recurring, as we crash, crash, crash. Crunch. Loads of classic Great Depression-themed 78rpm records, readings from novels of…