Yu-Mex
December 23, 2004 6:32 PM Subscribe
This is a small homage to hundreds of performers who covered themselves with sombreros to become Slavic Mexicans. (via memepool)
The music on this site is truly amazing. And it's a beutiful illustartion of th fact that gorgraphy is no longer the dictating factor in "folk" music and "pop" music is as "folk" as anything. Enjoy children.
posted by jonmc at 6:42 PM on December 23, 2004
posted by jonmc at 6:42 PM on December 23, 2004
Good music deserves good food, I am hungry for a mousaka burrito now...
posted by alteredcarbon at 7:34 PM on December 23, 2004
posted by alteredcarbon at 7:34 PM on December 23, 2004
Genius. Just genius.
posted by Sidhedevil at 7:35 PM on December 23, 2004
posted by Sidhedevil at 7:35 PM on December 23, 2004
How bizarre...!
posted by Sir Mildred Pierce at 7:41 PM on December 23, 2004
posted by Sir Mildred Pierce at 7:41 PM on December 23, 2004
In 1948, the Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito ... broke up with the Soviet leader Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin
He never called.
Plus, they had almost the same first name, and that's just tacky.
posted by dhartung at 9:00 PM on December 23, 2004
He never called.
Plus, they had almost the same first name, and that's just tacky.
posted by dhartung at 9:00 PM on December 23, 2004
This post is so cool! I was in a bierhall in Munich once & started noticing that German oompah music sounds an awful lot like the mariachi music I grew up hearing in San Diego. Turns out it was the other way around.
This post was fascinating. Velika hvala! ("Thanks a lot" in Serbo-Croat...)
posted by miss lynnster at 9:36 PM on December 23, 2004
This post was fascinating. Velika hvala! ("Thanks a lot" in Serbo-Croat...)
posted by miss lynnster at 9:36 PM on December 23, 2004
The communist bloc and the cultural paranoia therein has led to some interesting musicl moments. In the sixties, teens behind the Iron Curtain wanted their rock and roll as much as the rest of the world, yet most of it was deemed to threatening and subversive. So they picked the form that they figured was the most harmess: surf instrumentals.
Shoot the curl behind the Berlin Wall, dudes.
posted by jonmc at 8:14 AM on December 24, 2004
Shoot the curl behind the Berlin Wall, dudes.
posted by jonmc at 8:14 AM on December 24, 2004
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