dradio.de: "Der Film "Avatar" war ein weltweiter Erfolg, der Tod von Michael Jackson sorgte international für Trauer - aber wieso eigentlich? Was macht die Massenkultur aus und wieso hat sie über Ländergrenzen hinweg Erfolg? Der französische Soziologe Frédéric Martel hat nach einer Antwort gesucht." Weiter
"Eliane Radigue (born January 24, 1932) is a French electronic music composer. She started her work in the 1950s and her first creations were presented in the late 1960s. Until 2000 her work was almost exclusively created on a single synthesizer, the ARP 2500 modular system and tape. Since 2001 she composed mostly for acoustic instruments." Read on a
"Stanley Kubrick allowed his then-17-year-old daughter, Vivian, to make a documentary about the production of THE SHINING. Created ... all » originally for the British television show BBC Arena, the documentary offers rare insight into the shooting process of a Kubrick film."
- More info at http://sofrito.co.uk/releases/sofrito-super-singles-jungle-magic-ep.html
- Stream the whole release at http://soundcloud.com/sofrito/sets/sofrito-super-singles-003
"During the late 1980s a cottage industry developed in Ghana, West Africa, composed of young entrepreneurs who possessed three pieces of property – a TV, a videocassette recorder (VCR), and a portable, gas-powered generator. Armed with these tools, desire and ambition, they set up ramshackle theaters known as “video clubs,” showing movies on the VCR and charging admission. In order to attract customers and sell tickets, club operators commissioned posters, which were painted on opened-up flour sacks." Read on at http://www.beprimitive.com/movie-mojo
"Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk is a disco album by Meco released in 1977. The album remakes various themes and songs from the Star Wars soundtrack into disco tunes. A single from the album entitled "Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band" was released, and hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on October 1, 1977, holding on to the spot for two weeks. In addition to the normal 3:32 version the album contains a full 15-minute version of the tune" Read omn at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_and_Other_Galactic_Funk
Bob Ostertag: "Five years ago I put all of my recordings to which I hold the rights (about 15 CDs’ worth) on my website for free download. My website allows people to donate money for the tracks they download but puts no big pressure on them to do so, and I had no idea if anyone would or not. I can now report that very few people do[...] Raleigh Morgan noted (Letters, The Wire 329) that 106,000 new albums were released in the US in 2008, nearly three times the 36,000 released in 2000. The number of artists with MySpace pages escalated from 600,000 in 2005 to more than ten million in 2010 [...] This deluge of more music than anyone can hear will change the very meaning of ‘music’ in a profound way." Read on
Courtney Brown, Emory University, by Courtney Brown, Ph.D. Courtney Brown, a mathematician and social scientist who teaches in the Department of Political Science at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.
"Science Fiction and Politics Class, Courtney Brown, Emory University. It has long been known that science fiction often seeks to foretell future technological developments. But it is also true that much science fiction foretells social science, and it can offer explicit commentaries on the political and social evolution of our societies. Isaac Asimov's depiction of the new science of psychohistory, Fritz Lang's biting critique of human society in his science fiction movie "Metropolis," and H.G. Well’s similarly powerful perspective on social and political development as portrayed in his novel "The Time Machine," are just a few examples. This seminar examines the role of science fiction as a powerful vehicle for social and political commentary, especially as it relates to the evolutionary tendencies of human societies."
Some of the featured writers:
Isaac Asimov
Aldous Huxley
Ursula K. Le Guin
Philip K. Dick
Robert A Heinlein
Robert Charles Wilson
Neal Stephenson
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