Jaques Dutronc: Il est cinq heures Paris s’éveille Le café est dans les tassesLes cafés nettoient leurs glacesEt sur le boulevard MontparnasseLa gare n’est plus qu’une carcasseIl est cinq heuresParis s’éveilleParis s’éveilleThis is the song that comes to mind when I think about Paris being resilient after Friday’s attacks. Paris, s’éveille. (Here are translations of the …
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“later that night i held an atlas in my lap ran my fingers across the whole world and whispered where does it hurt? it answered everywhere everywhere everywhere.” Warsan Shire: What They Did Yesterday AfternoonFriends on Instagram shared this quote by Warsan Shire today. This resonates so much after the horrible violence in Syria, Iraq, …
Ibeyi – Mama says – liveIbeyi are French-Cuban twins Lisa- Kaindé und Naomi Diaz. They create beautiful music based on their Cuban and Yoruban roots that sounds both really contemporary and timeless. I am enthralled. My first big discovery of the 2015. (found via All Songs Considered)(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
My intention is to make a contribution to the sociology of intellectual production, […] as well as to analysis of fetishism and magic. There too, you might say, “But why not go and study magic in "primitive” societies, rather than in the Paris fashion scene?“ I think that one of the functions of ethnological discourse …
https://player.vimeo.com/api/player.js EMA, probably my artist of the year, did a La Blogothèque Take-Away Show. It’s great to see how well the songs work, on a street, with just an acoustic guitar and a violin. See two more videos and read about it here.(Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)
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