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Dziga Vertov's Three Songs about Lenin : a visual tour through the history of the Soviet avant-garde in the interwar years
THIS PAPER EXAMINES the relationship between the films of Dziga Vertov and Soviet photography during the interwar years. While Vertov's reputation has ......(Continue Reading) Northern lights: Peter Conrad is dazzled by two new recordings of Scandinavian songs
In Stockholm or Helsinki at this time of year, the sun sceptically peeps over the horizon in mid-morning, hovers at roof level for a while and hurts ......(Continue Reading)In tune with nature: Peter Conrad celebrates Charles Ives, the man who first made America sing
Walt Whitman once claimed "I hear America singing", though what he actually heard-apart from his own megaphonic monologues-was imported sopranos ......(Continue Reading)"What's still left of my memory": recovery and reorientation in the songs of Van Dyke Parks
Introduction Arranger, musician, songwriter, and producer Van Dyke Parks appears likely to be remembered primarily as Brian Wilson's most gifted collaborator....(Continue Reading)Save our sounds: in some libraries, noise is good - collections of nature sounds
"I'm a bad person to go to a movie with," says Greg Budney, curator of the Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds at Cornell University. He sometimes reacts ......(Continue Reading)
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