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Avian archetypes: Native American folklore’s most fascinating birds

By Guest PostSeptember 26, 2024Culture, Naturebirds in folklore, cahuilla bird songs, kah kool, native american folklore, native folklore, puebloan pottery, rainbirds

A celebrated Bruin honors ‘the beauty, grace, power and wisdom of those who were here before us’

As a doctoral candidate in folklore and mythology at UCLA in the 1990s, Paul Apodaca focused his dissertation on the Cahuilla bird songs, a tradition that continues today among members of Native American Cahuilla tribes. The recipient of the award for Outstanding Graduate Student of the Year, he even invited modern-day bird singers to campus at UCLA’s annual Pow Wow. Despite the name, he explains, the songs are not about birds at all. (more…)

Vom Volkslied bis zum Hip-Hop

By Guest PostAugust 13, 2024Culture, Entertainmentclubkultur, hip hop, neuzeit popkultur, populaere kultur

Seit zehn Jahren erforscht das Zentrum für Populäre Kultur und Musik der Universität Freiburg Pop und Gesellschaft

Ob Hip-Hop der 2000er Jahre, Schlager der 1920er oder populäre Musik der Frühen Neuzeit – Popkultur hat ihre eigenen Formen und Funktionsweisen, in denen sich immer auch gesellschaftliche Fragen ausdrücken. Seit zehn Jahren erforscht und analysiert das Zentrum für Populäre Kultur und Musik (ZPKM) der Universität Freiburg die Rolle von populärer Musik in verschiedenen Gesellschaften: 2014 ging es aus dem bereits 1914 gegründeten Deutschen Volksliedarchiv hervor. (more…)

President Putin received a copy of Holy Quran and hold it close to his heart

By Guest PostJuly 1, 2023Culture, Media, Politicscathedral mosque building, dagestan, derbent, juma mosque, madrasah, mosque in derbent, naryn kala citadel

During his working trip to Dagestan, Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the architectural and archaeological complex of the Naryn-Kala citadel and the Juma Mosque in Derbent that have federal monument status and are UNESCO World Heritage sites. (more…)

Indigenous people can aid greatly to resolve climate change issue

By Guest PostApril 19, 2023Culture, Politicsclimate change issue, climate crisis, indigenous communities, indigenous people, urgent climate action, zenu community

Between 17 and 28 April the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) will hold its 22nd session at the UN Headquarters in New York under the theme “Indigenous Peoples, human health, planetary and territorial health and climate change: a rights-based approach”. (more…)

Six Sufi masters

By ShamsApril 16, 2023Culture, Mediasix sufi masters, sufi masters

Six Sufi masters: Khwaja Mu’in al-Din, Ghaus al-A’zam, Khwaja Qutb al-Din, Shaikh Mihr, Shah Sharaf Bu ‘Ali Qalandar and Sultan-ul-Mashaikh. (more…)

Soviet-era serial killers were not always anti-social

By Guest PostApril 5, 2023Culture, Politicscommunist labour, killer from rostov, patriots of vitebsk, serial killer, shock worker, soviet era, vitebsk strangler

Not every serial killer should necessarily be either a social outcast or a sociopath. Some of them are good at disguise and may at times have a reputation of exemplary society members. Biographies of many famous serial killers of the USSR era testify to this.

Chikatilo helped to catch himself
Andrey Chikatilo, a serial killer from Rostov, committed his first crime in 1973, the last in 1990. Chikatilo killed 53 women and children in all that time. (more…)

Hassles of modern day life and the tranquility of old good time

By ShamsJune 6, 2022Culture, Mediacharles jalabert, jean leon gerome, modern day life, old good time, tranquility

One can get a glimpse of it from the memoir of famous French painter and sculptor Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824 – 1904), written at the end of 1903, recalling his first meeting with another French painter Charles Jalabert in 1840: (more…)

Recreation in a Russian Camp

By ShamsJune 5, 2022Culture, Entertainment1855, jean leon gerome, recreation, russian camp

Recreation in a Russian Camp, 1855: An oil painting by the famous French painter and sculptor Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824 – 1904) (more…)

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