78 78s - In Search Of Lost Time - is a streaming mix of beautiful 78s from around the world, collected and curated by Ian Nagoski. "I started sifting through boxes of junky old 78s that no one else wanted about 15 years ago, and almost right away, I made a rule: Anything that wasn't in English, buy it."
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posted by carter
on Jan 29, 2012 -
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Res Obscura is a blog by Ben Breen, a graduate student of early modern history, which styles itself "a compendium of obscure things." Indeed, even the asides are full of wonder, such as the one about Boy, the famous Royalist war poodle of the English Civil War, which is but a short addendum to
a post about witches' familiars. Here are some of my favorite posts,
Pirate Surgeon in Panama (and a related
post about 18th Century Jamaica),
vanished civilizations,
asemic pseudo-Arabic and -Hebrew writing in Renaissance art, and a series of posts about the way the Chinese and Japanese understood the world outside Asia in the early modern period (
Europeans as 'Other',
Europeans as 'Other,' Redux and
Early Chinese World Maps).
posted by Kattullus
on Sep 30, 2010 -
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Each of the following
MySpace Music pages features bios and/or photos and/or videos and/or miscellaneous related materials and/or up to six songs by each of the following old school Jamaican
Reggae and/or
dub artists:
Alton Ellis,
Toots and the Maytals,
Jimmy Cliff,
The Wailing Wailers,
Big Youth,
Dennis Brown,
Mikey Dread,
The Meditations,
Leroy Brown,
Mad Professor,
Augustus Pablo,
Ras Michael and the Sons of Negus,
King Tubby,
The Abyssinians,
Everton Blender,
Bunny Wailer,
Prince Alla,
Israel Vibration,
Peter Tosh,
Gregory Isaacs,
Shinehead,
Jah Ruby,
Carlton Livingston,
King Jammy,
Duckie Simpson,
I Threes,
Judy Mowatt,
Sly and Robbie,
Barrington Levi,
Yellowman,
Delroy Williams,
Wailing Souls,
Earl "Chinna" Smith,
Leroy "Horsemouth" Wallace,
Burning Spear,
Max Romeo,
Black Uhuru,
Leroy Sibbles,
Ijahman Levi and
Earl Cunningham.
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posted by flapjax at midnite
on Mar 7, 2008 -
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Jamaican Label Art. J.L.A. is a website for those people who are obsessed with Caribbean music and the artwork and design of the labels on the vinyl reproductions of that music. It doesn't matter if those labels are on recordings of Jamaican music released in the U.S.A., or indeed Trini Calypso released in the U.K. It's all the same to us!
posted by soundofsuburbia
on Feb 8, 2007 -
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Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou. 'Vodou is Haiti's mirror. Its arts and rituals reflect the difficult, brilliant history of seven million people, whose ancestors were brought from Africa to the Caribbean in bondage. In 1791 these Africans began the only successful national slave revolt in history. In 1804 they succeeded in creating the world's first Black republic: the only one in this hemisphere where all the citizens were free. Their success inspired admiration, fear and scorn in the wider world. Cut off from Euro-American support, Haitians managed to created their own dynamic "Creole" society-one rooted in Africa but responsive to all that was encountered in their new island home.' History,
theology and
religious art.Related :-
an essay on the Vodou concept of soul,
Voodoos and Obeahs on sacred-texts ('required reading if you want to understand the background of Haitian and Jamaican Vodun, and the profound influence of imperialism, slavery and racism on its development').
posted by plep
on Jan 2, 2004 -
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Jamaica may legalize marijuana. I figure if a country that grows so much of it, and allows religious groups so much more influence in politics than we do is going down this (seemingly) sensibile road - perhaps we should consider it here in the 'ole USA...
posted by owillis
on Aug 20, 2001 -
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Rioting in Jamaica. This one hits
very close to home, as it's where my family is from and where I partially grew up. While the immediate effect of people dying is terrible, the long term effects of this news on tourism (Jamaica's top industry) will probably be devastating to an already poor country.
posted by owillis
on Jul 10, 2001 -
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