Goldenbird Mixtape I
21 tracks, see the list…
***GOLDENBIRD***
It’s the Modern World, the End of Times, the Decline of the West, the Revolt of the Masses. It’s the 1920’s. It’s going to be Very Silly.
Archive for music
He May Be Your Dog
Inspired by a nice blues song by Rosa Henderson. (Listen!)
I got a bit carried away with Jesus’ hands there…
Revues and other Vanities
Great illustrated article about the entertainment industry, sensationalist media and censorship in the 1920’s:
http://www.assumption.edu/ahc/Vanities/
Featuring: Ziegfeld Follies, chorus girls, Nita Naldi, bathing beauties, Louise Brooks, “Anything Goes”, Buster Keaton, Tarzan and the Sheik, cocaine, murder, Woodbury’s soap, American Intelligence vs. Anglo-Saxon Civilization.
See also: The E Pluribus Unum Project
The First Finnish Tango
Whatever the Argentinians might say, the tango is considered the essence of Finnishness in Finland. The fashion dance of the 1910’s was first introduced in Helsinki by a Danish couple, who danced at the Hotel Börs in 1913. Paradoxically, the first Finnish-language tango song was a parody of the tango craze, which was seen as [...]
“True Finns”
Not completely unrelated to my upcoming thesis. One of my challenges is to debunk the old lazy idea that “there was no racism in Finland before those damn foreigners came here”. The Finnish idea of nationhood is very much built upon an impossible ideal of purity, as well as a sense of constant threat towards [...]
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