May 2010 Blog Posts (15)

How many cultures in your neighborhood? no way!

Cultural dispatch from Jackson Heights, Queens, New York:

On Friday night on my way home I looked around as I walked under the…

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Added by Create Culture on May 31, 2010 at 5:00am — No Comments

Interview from Argentina: Valentín Muro - what are you thinking?

Valentin was one of the first members on Create Culture. When I went to Buenos Aires recently we wandered around San Telmo and got to know each other a little bit better in person. The following is an interview that came from this meeting....... -John

Tell us a bit about yourself.

My name is Valentín Muro and I'm 20 years old.… Continue

Added by Create Culture on May 27, 2010 at 6:00am — 2 Comments

Carnatic voice culture in Slovenia

Hi all,

It was incredibly beautiful to visit this small, lush green country in Europe last week. I had a wonderful time both musically and personally.

The visit was initiated by Emilija Kercan who has been learning Carnatic (South Indian Classical) Music from me for sometime now. I was very pleasantly surprised to note that Emilija is one of the many Slovenians who is deeply into Indian culture. Emilija's brother is highly committed to popularising the wisdom of…

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Added by Chitravina N Ravikiran on May 26, 2010 at 2:00am — 2 Comments

Culture of Andaman & Nicobar Islands (india)

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Added by naresh chander lal on May 24, 2010 at 9:30am — No Comments

The World's Fair- Part IV: Artaud discover Balinese music at the Fair

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Added by Create Culture on May 24, 2010 at 9:00am — No Comments

ART IN THE DEPTHS OF THE AMAZON

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Added by Luke Waterson on May 23, 2010 at 2:48pm — No Comments

Folkstreams.net: The Best of American Folklore films

Looking for something to do besides spend your time on Create Culture (impossible!)? If so, I've found a site I would like to recommend to you. Folkstreams.net streams films on "American venacular culture." These are not films by the likes of James Cameron. 3-D glasses will not improve your viewing experience and Avatars are not a focus (although it is entirely possible that they could be some day). However, if you are interested… Continue

Added by Create Culture on May 20, 2010 at 6:00am — No Comments

The World's Fair- Part III: Political Theater

For Part II, "Unusual Encounters", click here.

Part III: Political Theater

My approach with this World’s Fair blog series has been to look at how events of this scale not only show but actually…

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Added by Create Culture on May 17, 2010 at 9:00am — No Comments

CC Adventures with Pio and Lucas: Buenos Aires Through Other Eyes - Part II

I'm picking up in this blog post from where I left off last week in Buenos Aires......

From Villa Fiorito Pio and Lucas drove my wife and myself to… Continue

Added by Create Culture on May 13, 2010 at 6:00am — 2 Comments

Story of the Creole Band

Pioneers of Jazz; The Story of the Creole Band, Lawrence Gushee, Oxford U. Press, 2005.

The Story of…

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Added by Razz'm Jazz'm on May 11, 2010 at 8:30pm — No Comments

The World's Fair- Part II: Unusual Encounters

For Part I, "Remains of the Fair", click here…

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Added by Create Culture on May 10, 2010 at 9:00am — 2 Comments

Days Spent on a Fishing Boat in Ha Long Bay, Vietnam

Ha Long Bay is blessed with a stunning landscape. Limestone karsts jut out from the water without any rhyme or reason and the best way to explore is to do it the way the locals live their daily lives, i.e., live on a fishing boat. Our boat was on the rustic… Continue

Added by Ashok Sinha on May 7, 2010 at 12:00am — No Comments

CC Adventures with Pio and Lucas: Buenos Aires Through Other Eyes - Part I

Several weeks back I wrote a post about the website Mediamatic Travel. This is a site where you can find artists to give you a tour of their local cultural scene. When I found the site, I immediately fell in love with the concept. But, was curious to see how it would play out in real life. So, in preparation for my recent visit to Buenos Aires I contacted…

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Added by Create Culture on May 6, 2010 at 6:00am — 4 Comments

Indigenous music in East Timor

A small post here, but many more to come. Thanks to the Jerome Foundation pitching in to this trip, I was able to come to East Timor. Sunday, May 2, was my first exposure to live indigenous East Timorese music. In this picture is master ladako player Amaku Aman and his sister (with the small sticks).

This is a very old bamboo instrument, with ostensibly some relation to the "Valiha" of Madagascar, but exists in different forms with different names across that swath of islands (an… Continue

Added by Jen Shyu on May 6, 2010 at 4:49am — No Comments

The World's Fair- Part I: Remains of the Fair

Shanghai Expo 2010

The news that the Shanghai Expo 2010 is now open has rekindled my obscure passion for World's Fairs- a passion which started with a class I took at NYU's Performance Studies program a few years back- an entire semester of World's Fairs, from looking at London's Crystal Palace in 1851 to the latest World Expos. The beauty of this class was looking not… Continue

Added by Create Culture on May 3, 2010 at 9:00am — 1 Comment