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Els Ampe of Terzake op Vrijdag, 24/1/20:
- "Men wil opnieuw dat economische groei op de agenda staat ... zodanig dat de kinderen het beter hebben dan de ouders want dat wil toch iedereen?"
Je vraagt je dan af wat Els Ampe verstaat onder het "beter" hebben?
Mijn ouders hadden twee auto's en woonden op 'den buiten'.
Ze brachten ons elke dag naar de school dertien kilometer verderop, langs lintbebouwde filegevoelige steenwegen, zo van die banen waarlangs uitzuipkoten stonden, de warme landen werden ze genoemd.
Toen al.
Nochtans, toen zij jong waren, waren er nog geen lintbebouwingen en was er nog een onderscheid te maken tussen de stad en het platteland.
Maar ja, nu is het beter.
Nu elk gezin twee auto's heeft, of drie of vier, en vier IPhones, en vier tablets, en vier portables en vier teevees.
Sinds de tijd van mijn ouders is er gratis gezondheidszorg, gratis lager onderwijs en bijna gratis hoger onderwijs.
Hoe kan dat nog beter?
Tussen 2014 en 2015 daalde de levensverwachting voor het eerst in de Verenigde Staten.
Dat werd toegeschreven aan de zogenaamde wanhoopsziektes: alcoholisme, zelfmoord, depressie en opiaten.
Nooit was de welvaart zo groot en nooit was de nood aan zingeving groter.
RIP Sonny 'french connection' Grosso (1930 – 2020)
Sonny Grosso was New York City police detective turned movie and television producer, noted for his role in the "French Connection" heroin immortalized in the The French Connection (1971).
The BBC documentary The Poughkeepsie Shuffle: Tracing 'The French Connection' (2000) features him extensively. The doc was directed by Russell Leven and written by Mark Kermode.
After being an adviser on The French Connection, Grosso went on to play a part in the film Cruising (1980).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YEVFlv3MEA
This film is also the subject of a documentary, The History of Cruising (2007), by Laurent Bouzereau.
- "In 1969, for the first time in the city's history, there were heroin deaths of children under the age of 15. Also, 1969 was the first ... Walter Vandermeer was the youngest child to die of a drug overdose in New York City. Just 2 weeks before he was ..." --Congressional Serial
RIP John Karlen (1933 – 2020)
John Karlen was an American actor. Outside of the United States, he is primarily known for his lead in the Belgian film Daughters of Darkness (1971), a lesbian vampire exploitation chic vehicle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JW3rhIMjOU
1,6 miljoen euro, dat krijgt Marc Van Damme van de stad Aarschot omdat ... zoektocht naar trage wegen op de 'Atlas der buurtwegen' uit 1841
Jimmy Heath (1926 – 2020)
Jimmy Heath was an American jazz saxophonist, part of the Heath Brothers.
Like so many "Gen X" music lovers who grew up with vinyl but switched to cds (the musical fraud of the century), I discovered Mr. Heath on the Soul Jazz Love Strata-East (1994) compilation.
On that album is "Smiling Billy Suite Pt.II" (1975) from the album Marchin' On by the Heath Brothers from the same year.
RIP Adolfo Natalini (1941 – 2020)
RIP Terry 'monty python' Jones
Terry Jones will be best-remembered for playing Maria in Life of Brian in which she proclaims indignantly that her son is "not the messiah, but a very naughty boy."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_kKAeh6qyc
Every death being an encounter, I was surprised to learn that Jones was also a popular historian.
In the first episode of Terry Jones' Medieval Lives (2004) he explains how he English word knight stems from the Germanic word knecht.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO7YZr1U6jU
RIP Joe Shishido (1933 – 2020)
Joe Shishido was a Japanese actor known for his eccentric yakuza film roles and his artificially enlarged cheekbones. He also played in exercises such as Gate of Flesh (1964).
RIP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMn8og1bU6w
The clip is a tribute to Joe Shishido, a montage of clips from A Colt Is My Passport (1967)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMn8og1bU6w
Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline [Darrell & Ibbitson, John Bricker]
'Uncircumscribed,' unbounded, and 'blurred,' the concepts and words of ordinary language are marked by ambiguity." --unidentified passage of Wittgenstein
‘The Saint Bernard Has a Sad Face.’ Het onderscheid dat duidelijk wordt door het voorbeeld van de Sint-Bernardshond, is dat tussen ‘expressiveness’ en ‘expression’. Dit is een onderscheid dat Langer ook expliciet maakte, en het gaat terug op de idee van Hegel dat de expressiviteit van een kunstwerk op een cognitieve manier wordt begrepen. Het is een kwestie van ‘begrijpen’, eerder dan van ‘voelen’. We hoeven er niet van uit te gaan dat de Sint Bernardshond droevig is, om te kunnen stellen dat zijn gelaat droefenis uitdrukt:
RIP Steve Martin Caro (1948 – 2020)
Steve Martin Caro was an American rock musician best known for his rendition of the songs "Walk Away Renée" and "Pretty Ballerina" for the 1960s baroque pop band The Left Banke.
RIP Roger Scruton (1944 - 2020)
Roger Scruton was an English philosopher.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0Eslagm7EQ&t=15s
In an interview with Joan Bakewell?, Roger Scruton regrets "secularization has gone as far as it has because I don't think that there is any happiness contained within it." He sees it as something that is "fundamentally disorientating."
I agree, and so would Houellebecq. Liberalism does not necessarily make free.
He thinks that it "will eventually give way to another religious experience, maybe Islamisation which in my view would be a disaster."
He adds:
"if it did happen ... I would think it would mean the end of secular jurisdiction in this country ... the greatness of the English settlement largely depends upon the fact that we have emancipated the law from religious edicts."
When I first found out about Roger Scruton in 2008 I was a different man with different interests. I was, at the time, outraged by his "cultural pessimism" and his "paternalistic elitism".
Since then, I changed in several ways.
I changed from being an advocate of the cult of ugliness (although my interest in the ugly still remains strong) to an advocate of the cult of beauty.
And I also changed by way of a growing interest in the clash of civilizations in the aftermath of 9/11. A decisive moment in this evolution was the Charlie Hebdo massacre. We live in a different world now, a world in which freedom of expression is not absolute anymore. I'm talking specifically of the freedom to blaspheme in the way so vividly expressed by Marquis de Sade in his pamphlet Yet Another Effort, Frenchmen, If You Would Become Republicans (1795):
"I should like there to be perfect freedom to deride them all [all religions]; I should like men, gathered in no matter what temple to invoke the eternal who wears their image, to be seen as so many comedians in a theater, at whose antics everyone may go to laugh."
Today, everyone of us in the whole world is living under the blasphemy law that prohibits the depiction of Mohammed. Just think about how weird that is.
Philosophers such as Scruton were outraged by this and he spoke many times on the subject, suffering severe consequences for what he said.
Let me cite Scruton from two texts, both cited in Roger Scruton: The Philosopher on Dover Beach by Mark Dooley.
The first:
"Beware of a Religion without Irony" (2006):
- "The term "Islamofascism" was introduced by the French writer Maxine Rodinson (1915-2004) to describe the Iranian Revolution of 1978. Rodinson was a Marxist, who described as "fascist" any movement of which he disapproved. But we should be grateful to him for coining a word that enables people on the left to denounce our common enemy. After all, other French leftists--Michel Foucault, for example--had welcomed the revolution as an amusing threat to Western interests. It is only now that people on the left can acknowledge that they are just as much a target as the rest of us, in a war that has global chaos as its goal."
"Religious Freedom in America" (2006):
- "In September of this past year Robert Redeker, a French schoolteacher, published an article in Le Figaro arguing that Christians, when incited to violence in the name of their religion, can find no authority for this in the life and words of Christ as recorded in the Gospel, while Muslims, incited to violence in the name of their religion, can find plenty of support for their belligerence in the Koran. Although manifestly true, this statement was found to be offensive by a section of Muslim opinion, Mr. Redeker received credible death-threats against himself and his family, and he and they now live in hiding under police protection."
- "The reaction of the French authorities typifies the European response. Critics of Islam are not defended, but marginalized, by removing them from society and keeping them under house arrest. Instead of going after those who threatened Mr. Redeker with every weapon available to the law, instead of passing legislation of whatever severity might be required to restore the freedoms that have been gratuitously removed by the newcomers, the European authorities try to bluff their way to peace through appeasement, while pushing Islam’s critics off the stage. It is now increasingly rare for public discussion of Islam and its stance to proceed with the open-minded concern for truth that is necessary if the discussion is to get us anywhere.
- "Europe has seen private enterprise censorship of the Islamist kind before: notably when the Fascists worked to take power in Italy and the Nazis in Germany. But Europe has not learned the lesson. People living under secular government, and enjoying the comforts of a modern economy, easily become blind to the deep religious need of our species. They readily assume that religious passions can be quelled by a dose of Enlightenment, and that a sprinkling of skepticism will suffice to quell those perverted passions, like Nazism and fascism, that arise in religion’s place. And when the truth suddenly displays itself, they stare aghast, utter abject apologies, and quickly retreat from the field."
We still do not see eye to eye on the subject of sex. I consider myself a pornographer and Scruton has written many things about sex I don't agree with.
On pornography he wrote:
"The pornographic image is like a magic wand that turns subjects into objects, people into things—and thereby disenchants them, destroying the source of their beauty."--Beauty (2009)
This is perhaps true but it also happens to be my favorite way of having sex.
And this is probably one of the stupidest things he ever wrote:
"Consider the woman who plays with her clitoris during the act of coition. Such a person affronts her lover with the obscene display of her body, and, in perceiving her thus, the lover perceives his own irrelevance. She becomes disgusting to him, and his desire may be extinguished. The woman’s desire is satisfied at the expense of her lover’s, and no real union can be achieved between them."--Sexual Desire: A Philosophical Investigation
Would he understand that I revel in "the obscene display of her body", her "disgustingness"?
Coming back to Scruton in general, what does my current sympathy for Scruton say about me? Have I become more conservative. Is that the reason that I like the writings of John Gray? I do not think so. I'm just a curious person who had not been in to contact with conservative thought before and found it refreshing. One effect has been that I've had some reserves in calling my self a progressive. Because, progress is, as Havelock Ellis would have it, the exchange of one nuisance for another.
Eind 2019 volgde ik de filosofie van de muziek colleges van professor Marlies De Munck.
Alle theorieën die in de colleges aan bod kwamen, waren enkel van toepassing op de traditie van de Westerse kunstmuziek, beter gekend onder de problematische term "klassieke muziek".
Het grote verschil tussen de theorieën aangereikt over muziek en de "six songs" theorie van Daniel Levitin is dat ze crosscultureel is.
Marquard ( 2015), Spaemann ( 2018) of Böckenförde (2019) ,
In betere kringen. Satirische verhalen van Cyriel Buysse (2019) van Cyriel Buysse
Cyriel Buysse (1859-1932) werd zowel in Nederland als in Vlaanderen bekend als auteur van naturalistische en realistische drama’s, romans en verhalen. Maar hij schreef ook schitterende stukken over het gedrag en de zeden van de rijke klasse, waar hij zelf toe behoorde. Die werden nog nooit gebundeld tot een boek. In deze uitgave zijn satirische verhalen en kronieken van Buysse bijeengebracht die na de eerste publicatie in Nederlandse tijdschriften nooit zijn herdrukt. De meesterlijke novelle 'Monsieur Hardamour' is een satirische thriller uit 1899. Ook de kortere verhalen en kronieken uit de jaren 1910 en 1920 behoren tot het meest genietbare in de Nederlandstalige literatuur uit het begin van de twintigste eeuw.
Why Liberalism Works: How True Liberal Values Produce a Freer, More Equal, Prosperous World for All (2019) by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey
GE: One of the things which people jumped on was your description of Islamophobia as a propaganda word. Would you defend that now?
RS: Absolutely. It was invented by the Muslim Brotherhood in order to stop discussion of a major issue which we are all worried about. We’re all worried about the extent to which Islam condones, or does not condone, the violence committed in its name. I think Douglas Murray has written quite well about this. I have a PhD student who you probably know, Ed Husain, who’s very much concerned with getting from the Islamic tradition the other side to this question, what it is that Muslims really say and can say about the violent manifestations of their own faith.
--On 10 April 2019, the New Statesman published a 900-word Encounter between George Eaton and the philosopher Roger Scruton.
In Europa: De geschiedenis op heterdaad betrapt (2019-2020) is a television series based on the work of Geert Mak.
RIP Ivan Passer (1933 – 2020)
Ivan Passer was a Czech film director best known for his film Cutter's Way (1981).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FpKrKlzV_A
Incipit to Cutter's Way (1981)
RIP Buck Henry (1930 – 2020)
Buck Henry was an American actor (Eating Raoul), screenwriter (The Graduate, Catch-22, Candy) and director (Heaven Can Wait).
Candy (1968).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNP8Q_8u89A&t=314s
RIP Neda Arnerić (1953 – 2020)
Neda Arnerić was a Serbian actress.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rmiu-eHLH7s&t=1s
In Shaft in Africa (1973) she is Jazar:
Jazar : How long is your phallus, Mr. Shaft?
Shaft : My what?
Jazar : Your cock?
Shaft : Baby, by now it shrunk down to 20 inches.
Arnerić was considered a sex symbol of Yugoslav cinema.
RIP Wolfgang Dauner (1935 – 2020)
Wolfgang Dauner was a German musician perhaps best known for his album The Oimels which featured the composition "Dig My Girl" which made to the Caribou 1000.
Gisteren 12/1/20 zag ik met Fee en Bonnie en hun vriendjes De Onzichtbaren by Tutti Fratelli and Nico Sturm.
Jihadi's in België: De route van Zaventem en Maalbeek () by Paul Ponsaers
Weggegooide stukken uit de bespreking Brussel, de stad waar ik van hou van LDV
Mocht Prince Charles LDV kennen, hij zou hem tot medestander uitroepen.
Antwerpen heeft zulke gaanderijen niet, alleen de Nieuwe Gaanderij, waar ik in de jaren negentig wel eens een broodje ging eten in dat kleine Italiaanse delicatessenzaakje dat er nu niet meer is. Maar afgezien van dat gemis is het er op architecturaal vlak beter toeven dan in Brussel. Vander Taelen heeft geen ongelijk als hij betreurt dat Brussel geen prestigeprojecten heeft zoals Antwerpen met haar Museum aan de Stroom, haar Gerechtsgebouw en haar Havenhuis.
RIP Elizabeth 'Prozac Nation' Wurtzel (1967 – 2020)
Elizabeth Wurtzel was an American writer, best known for her novel Prozac Nation (1994).
The first lines of that novel read:
- "I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong. Like all the drugs put together-the lithium, the Prozac, the desipramine, and Desyrel that I take to sleep at night-can no longer combat whatever it is that was wrong with me in the first place. I feel like a defective model, like I came off the assembly line flat-out fucked and my parents should have taken me back for repairs before the warranty ran out.
Here is the film.
It's not very good. But it will take you less time than reading the book and you'll get it all the same.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfuHwrHG76U
Back from Montpellier (21/12/19-5/1/20)
I went there with F. This was our schedule.
I took some photos with my phone at the Musée Fabre.
I was particularly pleased at finding the original from a print I'd known from the third volume of the Illustrierte Sittengeschichte, an engraving of a monk holding a naked woman. In that book, the print was known as The indecent monk.
In the museum it was Claude Frollo et la Esmeralda by the French painter Narcisse Virgilio Díaz.
Tim Flannery says that Grosseto and Siena are reensauvager (rewilding)
Dominic Cummings and his 'weirdos and misfits' [1]
stationaire economie Klaas van Egmond
RIP John 'dots over peoples faces' Baldessari (1931 – 2020)
John Baldessari was an American artist.
There is a short documentary on his work and legacy narrated by Tom Waits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU7V4GyEuXA
A typical work is Painting for Kubler (1967–68) which paraphrased some theses from art historian George Kubler's book The Shape of Time (1962).
In his own analysis, he said he would be best remembered as "the guy who puts dots over peoples faces."
RIP Syd Mead (1933 – 2019)
Syd Mead was an American concept artist best known for his work on Blade Runner (1982), Tron (1982) and Aliens (1986).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b018CzxbKMY
Only three months after the death of Luigi Colani (1928 – 2019) comes the death of Mead.
They were in different but comparable branches of concept art.
Both were obsessed with futuristic aerodynamics.
2020 Baghdad International Airport airstrike
Zingen is geluk by Barber van de Pol.
It took me five days to read Philosophical Darwinism, it's the perfect companion piece to A Darwinian Left.
Just a few more hours and it will be 2020, which means that the work of a new batch of artists will pass into the public domain in countries of the death-70 regime.
RIP Neil 'Monty Python' Innes (1944 – 2019)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ6VkYPLme4
Neil Innes was an English comedian (Monty Python), musician (The Rutles, Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band) and writer.
Neil Innes (1944 – 2019) was an English writer, comedian and musician. He collaborated with Monty Python and played in The Rutles and the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band.
Scene from The Innes Book of Records, originally aired 24 January, 1979, Neil and the Women's League of Health & Beauty, filmed at the American Museum in Bath, UK.
RIP Sue 'Lolita' Lyon (1946 – 2019)
Sue Lyon was an American actress best-known as the nymphet of Lolita (1962).
My film bible Cult Movie Stars has this:
"Amid much publicity stating she was too young even to see the film, an unknown blonde was cast in the title role in Lolita."
Her final film role was in the mildly amusing Alligator.
Panamarenko and Hugo Heyrman 'ice-cubes action' on the Antwerp Conscienceplein, July 6, 1968.
De oude dame, finished it 30/12/19, the beginning, when Sophie 'rescues' the old woman from the soon te be demolished building, is magical.
- "Nederlands historicus Geerten Waling: 'Maarten Boudry is een onafhankelijk denker, die wars is van dogma's'. Geerten Waling: “Het debat is ..." --Nederlands historicus Geerten Waling: 'Maarten Boudry is een ..." --DM 29/12/19
Of all the disco "bands", El Coco (Rinder and Lewis) had the best designed sleeves, many of which showed a retro Art Deco-ish big band look als evident in Kid Creole and the Coconuts/Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band and Lou Deprijck.
"Melodies" by Made in U.S.A. (Crown Heights Affair, 1977, De-Lite Records) is reminiscent of that style.
RIP Alasdair 'Lanark' Gray (1934 – 2019)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwWzNBvGoT8
Alasdair Gray was a Scottish writer and artist.
His magnum opus Lanark (1981) features a skin disease called 'dragonhide'.
Adjectives applicable to this work are grotesque, fantastique and rabelaisian.
The book has a tendency to depress.
Update: The skin disease 'dragonhide' reminds me of the description of the narrator in Les Chants de Maldoror: ""I am filthy. I am riddled with lice. Hogs, when they look at me, vomit. My skin is encrusted with the scabs and scales of leprosy, and covered with yellowish pus."
Beyond World War III () by Mikey Dread
"Jah Jah Love (In The Morning)"
R.C.Lewontin "What is the basis of judgement?"
‘Organism and Environment’, in Henry Charles Plotkin (ed.), Learning, Development and Culture, p. 164.
"The neat formula ‘by chance mutation and selective retention’ is due to Donald T.Campbell’s paper ‘Evolutionary Epistemology’ of 1974." PD
See, e.g., R.Norman, Hegel's Phenomenology, London, Sussex University Press, 1976, p. 11
‘Kants Lehre vom Apriorischen im Lichte gegenwärtiger Biologie’, Blätter für deutsche Philosophie, 1941, 15, 94–125.
Beasts of the Modern Imagination: Darwin, Nietzsche, Kafka, Ernst and Lawrence by Margot Norris
Primate behavior - Page 328 https://books.google.be › books
James L. Fobes, James E. King - 1982 - Snippet view read monkeys for preexistence." Or, at another point, "Origin of man now proved.—Metaphysics must flourish.—He who understands baboon would do more toward metaphysics than Locke." By "metaphysics," Darwin apparently means ...
- noumena, phenomena
- rationalism, empiricism
- innate, blank slate
- a priori, a posteriori
- inductive, deductive
- synthetic, analytic
- nominalism, realism
See "noumena", "phenomena", "rationalism", "empiricism", "innate", "blank slate", "a priori", "a posteriori", "inductive", "deductive", "synthetic", " analytic", "nominalism", "realism"
Winch is perhaps most famous for his early book, The Idea of a Social Science and its Relation to Philosophy (1958), an attack on positivism in the social sciences, drawing on the work of R. G. Collingwood and Ludwig Wittgenstein's later philosophy.
RIP Jerry 'I Am What I Am' Herman (1931 – 2019)
Jerry Herman was an American composer and lyricist, known for his work in Broadway musical theater. He composed the scores for the hit Broadway musicals Hello, Dolly!, Mame, and La Cage aux Folles. He was nominated for the Tony Award five times, and won twice, for Hello, Dolly! and La Cage aux Folles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mufjc9y8lAs
By pure coincidence I was watching Paris Is Burning (1990) this afternoon, it features the Jerry Herman-penned gay anthem "I Am What I Am" from La Cage Aux Folles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf6Cn2y2xEc
Hof van Beroep Antwerpen over Maasmechelen zaak, zie neutraliteitsbeginsel
Rechtbank: “De leerlingen moeten hun persoonlijkheid kunnen ontwikkelen in een vrije omgeving, zodat ze zelf een oordeel kunnen vormen over de eigen identiteit, ook op religieus vlak, en die van de anderen.”
Rechtbank: “Ook zal een dergelijke leeromgeving de vrije schoolkeuze van de ouders vrijwaren. Ouders die kiezen voor het gemeenschapsonderwijs, mogen legitiem verwachten dat hun kinderen in een neutrale leeromgeving worden onderwezen, zonder sociale druk, of bekeringsijver.”
GO!: “We stellen na een eerste lezing vast dat het hof onze argumentatie volgt en dat het vindt dat het GO! met het verbod een legitieme doelstelling nastreeft. [...] Concreet betekent dit dat het verbod voor de betrokken leerlingen gehandhaafd blijft.”
Motto: . . . en alles, wat men weet, niet slechts heeft horen ruisen en bruisen, laat zich in drie woorden zeggen. Kurnberger
"De theorie van Darwin heeft met filosofie niet meer te maken dan welke andere hypothese van de natuurwetenschap dan ook." --vertaling Victor Gijsbers
RIP Allee Willis (1947 – 2019)
Allee Willis was an American eccentric best-known as a songwriter, writing or co-writing "I'll Be There For You" (1994, Friends theme song), "September" (1978) and "Boogie Wonderland" (1979) by Earth, Wind & Fire and "What Have I Done to Deserve This?" (1987) by Pet Shop Boys.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMxvVsIMstQ
There are plenty of short portraits of her on YouTube, most of them filmed in her house which, she says, was the MGM partyhouse built in 1937.
There is also her 1974 album Child Star.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN3-MWVJnbo
She also recorded the song "Big Adventure" (1985) with Pee-Wee Herman.
RIP Peter Wollen (1938 – 2019)
Peter Wollen was a British film theorist, filmmaker. and political journalist.
He is best-known for his book Signs and Meaning in the Cinema (1969), his marriage to an collaboration with Laura "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" Mulvey.
There is an enigmatic video online in which Wollen "reads the U.S. Press: "People Magazine" and "Scientific American" in the Same Breath." from Paper Tiger Television.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf1CDoiXXvU&t=1448s
RIP Claudine 'bond girl' Auger (1941 – 2019)
Claudine Auger was a French actress. I do not think she is related to Brian Auger.
Auger will be remembered as a bond girl but in my universe, she is the mother in Exploits of a Young Don Juan (1986), Isolina in Yo Yo (1965), the "thief!" shouter in Terrain Vague (1960) and Renata in Twitch of the Death Nerve (1971).
Sometimes, the death of someone serves as a jumping board to something only tangentially related to the deceased.
This is the case with the following film fragment of Yo Yo with its mime aesthetic.
Enjoy.
"Vienna quite complacently regarded herself as the capital of the music world. Her noble tradition of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert was undoubtedly something to be proud of, but in their veneration of the past the Viennese had very little interest in newer trends. In the mid-nineteenth century they had been skeptical of such progressive composers as Schumann and Liszt, and their opposition to Wagner, crystallized in the writings of Edward Hanslick, their foremost critic, was diametrically opposed to the enthusiastic reception given the music dramas by the Parisian intelligentsia." --An Introduction To Twentieth Century Music by Peter Sijer Hansen
"The Fundamental Qualities of Folk Music," but which is actually the best characterization I know of the modernist esthetic as applied to music:
"Jeffrey Mark, 'The Fundamental Qualities of Folk Music," Music and Letters 10/3 (1929):
On Letting the Music Speak for Itself: Some Reflections on Musicology and Performance. Richard Taruskin.
- "Volksbederf van links. Hier komen we bij de paradox van het moderne nationalisme, waar ook de N-VA niet aan ontsnapt. In theorie is nationalisme inderdaad ..." --"Allemaal Vlamingen! (Maar jullie niet)", Tom Naegels
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