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LinguisticsFilter: Why are the many Indo-European languages considered to have a common ancestor, whereas Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese and other gramatically and lexically similar languages are grouped into separate language families? How did so many different language families arise in the Americas and Australia given that they were populated by the same groups of people? Much more inside.
posted to Ask Metafilter by pravit
at 2:28 PM on March 18, 2008
(46 comments)
The 1960's and early 70's saw an explosion of creativity and an astonishing variety of stylistic influences coming together in the pop and rock music of Cambodia.Tragically, almost all of the artists of that era were executed (or otherwise perished) during the nightmarish Khmer Rouge years. The following
MySpace Music pages will help you to get acquainted with some of the wonderfully eclectic and adventurous music of this fertile period:
Pen Ron,
Yos Olarang,
Rous Sareysothea,
Sin Sisamouth,
Vor Sarun,
Houey Meas,
So Savoeun,
Eng Nary,
In Yeng,
Choun Malai,
Mao Sareth,
Sem Touch,
Chea Savoeun,
Toche Teng,
Teth Sombath,
Pen Rom,
Em Songserm and
Choun Vanna. Also, these related pages:
Cambodian Rock,
Radio Khmer Sitya,
Cambodian Style and
Cambodian Soundtracks.
NOTE: For personal recommendations, check the hover-overs accompanying each link.
posted to MetaFilter by flapjax at midnite
at 2:07 AM on December 15, 2007
(38 comments)
Sunday Night, later named Michelob Presents Night Music, was an NBC late-night television show hosted by Jools Holland and David Sanborn which aired for two seasons between 1988 and 1990 as a showcase for jazz and eclectic musical artists.
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posted to MetaFilter by carsonb
at 10:22 AM on September 16, 2007
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You've got just over two weeks to make it to the
John Henry celebration in Leeds, Alabama, where some folks believe the legendary steel driving contest actually took place. Maybe you already made it to
John Henry Days in Talcott, West Virginia (or read a
fictionalized account), where some more folks claim the same. John Garst, Scott Nelson, and other folklorists weigh in
here, supplemented by a wealth of links and resources on the subject. While you think on it let
Mississippi Fred McDowell,
The Boss,
Ralph Stanley,
John Jackson,
Merle Travis, and
Jason Isbell tell their own versions.
John Garst and his research mentioned
previously.
posted to MetaFilter by Roman Graves
at 11:34 PM on August 28, 2007
(17 comments)
Other Women's Voices:
"Below are links that will take you to passages from over 125 women writers. The entries are on women who produced a substantial amount of work before 1700, some or all of which has been translated into modern English. Each entry will tell you about the print sources from which the translated passages are taken; it will also tell you of useful secondary sources and Internet sites, when those are available." An amazing resource. (Via
wood s lot.)
posted to MetaFilter by languagehat
at 6:49 AM on July 26, 2007
(20 comments)
Cinema Europe
Extraordinary documentary series from the 1990s narrated by Kenneth Branagh which quietly demonstrates that most of anything you thought you knew about early cinema is wrong (embedded Google Videos).
posted to MetaFilter by feelinglistless
at 8:47 AM on July 7, 2007
(23 comments)
Embrace the Suck.
Intensive military activity creates an incubator for slang. By bringing together people from geographically diverse backgrounds, putting them into stressful circumstances, and teaching them
a new language of jargon and acronym, the armed forces create fertile ground for new idioms - many of which return home in civvies when the conflicts are over. In the
Civil War,
World War I and
World War II, in
Korea and in
Viet Nam, servicepeople created or popularized now-familiar terms like
shoddy, hotshot, cooties, tailspin, fleabag, face time, joystick, SNAFU, FUBAR, flaky, gung ho, no sweat, flame-out, and many,
many others.
Now, the
GWOT brings us
a new generation of
'milspeak'. Military columnist
Austin Bay has published an early collection of
neologisms from Gulf War II. On NPR,
Bay explains what The Suck is, how to identify a
fobbit, and why Marines look down on the attitude of
Semper I.
posted to MetaFilter by Miko
at 1:47 PM on March 31, 2007
(66 comments)
My Back Pages--Interesting in his own right
Eyolf Østrem still maintains the fan's fan tab, chords and music site, the standard by which all others are judged. I just revisited it the other night, while trying to recall how that little run in Dylan's version of
Delia went, and dang, if it didn't have the
back story of that ballad. I love this kind of stuff. The source of that account, John Garst, is the folklorist king of such research--he puts
John Henry at a railroad tunnel near Leeds, Alabama, just east of Birmingham on September 20, 1887, for example. Murder and heroic death ballad back stories are of extreme interest to me, so I decided to post a few more here:
Frankie and Albert,
Frankie and Johnny,
Casey Jones and
Stagger Lee. Did I say I love this kind of stuff?
posted to MetaFilter by y2karl
at 2:56 PM on September 23, 2004
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Hello dudes. Do you know where I can find recordings of good oral tradition storytellers on/offline? (in English)
posted to Ask Metafilter by London Irregular
at 11:50 AM on November 29, 2006
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