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.
Portrait of an Ardito (Italian elite troops) from WW1. I think he’s more handsome than Ettore, though. Another photo, with the Bersagliere bike. Interestingly, the article mentions the Fiume incident, but this young war veteran did not participate in it (although he was among the ‘liberators’ of Trieste in 1918). Instead, he returned to America, [...]
“Flirttailusta tai laiskottelusta kertoneet iskelmät herättivät pahennusta siinä missä toinenkin uusi viihteen laji, elokuva. Erityisesti taidemusiikin harrastajat esittivät paheksuntansa iskelmää kohtaan. Kotimaiset aiheet olivat tekstien riimittelyssä tärkeitä, vaikka myös pyrkimys kansainvälisyyteen tajuttiin. Kirjailija Olavi Paavolainen oli yksi harvoista “neekerimusiikin” puolustajista, hän kirjoitti kansojen sulautumisesta musiikin avulla.”
Ensimmäisen tasavallan viihdemusiikki
Tulenkantajat 1920-luvulla (Haaremiasussa!)
Paavolaisen jalanjäljillä 1939-1945
The last post gave a glimpse of what Falco did in the Great War (not really representative, I haste to add). In Memoriam 1914-1918 is a blog that makes me wish I could read la bella lingua faster. There’s so much useful stuff about the mules of the Alpini, the plight of the Slavic minority [...]
I have posted a small review of Laibach’s latest album Volk in Yellow Peril. An in-depth review is available in Finnish for those who frequent Lassen Purkki.
Inspired by that iconoclastic industrial band from Slovenia (where some gruesome battlegrounds from the Great War are located), I drew an anti-propaganda poster of Falco in the battle of [...]
Tomorrow, 88 years will have passed since German politicians - civilians - signed the armistice declaration in a railway carriage at Compiégne, under the watchful eye of France’s Marshal Ferdinand Foch. The German military leaders refused to participate in the “shameful” peace, thus placing the blame on the politicians. The myth of the undefeated army, [...]