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Tracks of the Week 15.06.24

Tracks of the Week
A multidisciplinary artist and curator who has spent the last few years producing exhibitions, developing documentaries and directing music videos and short films, Violaine Morgan Le Fur dips more than a toe into the sometimes murky waters of music production with her debut album as Violence Gratuite, adorning an aluminium tail as her siren vocals sound out from a...

Tracks of the Week 09.09.23

Tracks of the Week
In 1948 the audio engineer and music publisher Moses Asch founded Folkways Records with a mission to put on wax not only traditional, secular and children's music but poetry, language instruction, liturgical chants and field recordings from around the world. The earliest versions of 'This Land Is Your Land' by Woody Guthrie and 'Goodnight Irene' by Lead Belly were...

Crimea in the Russian Empire: A Cultural History

Literature
Kievan Rus flourished from about 882 – when Prince Oleg moved the capital of the Rus from Novgorod to Kiev – until the 13th century, when the Mongol Empire invaded and destroyed their major cities. While Russia gradually threw off the ‘Mongol-Tatar Yoke’, and began to emerge round the city of Moscow as a powerful independent state, Kiev and...