So the opera ends like a darker version of Eisenstein's "Battleship Potemkin", where the battleship triumphs, instead of escaping to Constanța, Romania and being partially scuttled, then reclaimed by the Czarist Black Sea fleet.

I think it's interesting that Aram Khachaturian was not mentioned.....is it because he had patronage (even though he was denounced for "formalism" in 1948), or did he break the forms enough after Stalin died that he was unusable as an example?

From the texture of silence to sonic disappearances, Josie Long presents short documentaries and audio adventures about the soundscapes we inhabit.

Omissa Oloisaan
Produced by Miyuki Jokiranta

A Moonlit Memory
Featuring Salma Ahmed Caller
Produced by Taqwa Sadiq

Sacha Taki
Featuring Jonathan Grefa, president of the Ancestral Kichwa Population of Kawsak Sacha (PAKKS - https://pakks.org.ec/), Rosa Santi, Education and Health Coordinator of PAKKS, Dr. Paola Moscoso, Director of Voces del Bosque and Graciela Tupay (singer)
With thanks to Amaru Grefa, External communication and media of PAKKS, Pastor Inmunda , ex president of PAKKS, Didier Lacaze, Director of Sacha Warmi
Rosa Canelos, Sacha Warmi, Dr. Alice Eldridge, University of Sussex, Gustavo Chiriboga, Voces del Bosque, Sozapato, Voces del Bosque
With recordings from Voces del Bosque 
https://www.vocesdelbosque.com/?lang=en
Produced by Mickal Aranha

First broadcast 11th July 2023, BBC Radio 4
Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall

S35: Short Cuts: Soundscape 6/8

An argument in Istanbul

At sunrise, on the banks of the Ganges river, the poet and radio producer Pejk Malinovski picks out a cow at random and starts to follow her. He continues to follow her until sunset.

The cow was here long before man arrived. Does the fact that human beings have maths, space travel and doughnuts really make us superior to all other beings on earth? What does the cow have that we don't have? Four stomachs. Hooves. A lot of patience.

A meditative journey unfolds within the sonic backdrop of the ancient city of Varanasi - until suddenly the two of them find themselves on the set of a Bollywood dance film.

A consideration of the nature of radio, a pondering of inter-species relationships, Pejk's programme invites you to un-follow your digital stream and exercise your ability to be just present.

Written and produced by Pejk Malinovski.
First broadcast 24th February 2018, BBC Radio 3

A Cow A Day

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Участники российского левого движения Илья Будрайтксис (РСД) и Илья Матвеев решили попробовать свои силы на ниве создания подкастов – поговорили про российский антифеминизм, Назарбаева и новую волну переназначений в регионах. Нужны ваши отзывы! Что получилось хорошо, что плохо, о чем бы вы хотели послушать в следующий раз?

Политический дневник #1

Темы выпуска:

0:40 - Что стоит за истерической реакцией части левых на фильм Дудя о Колыме и почему мы против сталинизма

19:00 - Предстоящий единый день голосования в сентябре: «Независимые» кандидаты от партии власти в Москве, феерическая кампания Беглова в Питере

36:15 - Мираторг и «поддержка отечественных производителей»

Политический дневник #3 (12/05/19)

Несмотря на репрессии, протест в Москве набирает обороты. В специальном выпуске «Политического дневника» Илья Матвеев рассуждает об «умном голосовании» и электоральной стороне движения, которая в ближайшие недели станет самой важной.

Политический дневник. Интервенция: Выборы (10/08/19)

There are many aspects of the Soviet arts that I don’t understand. But one thing that vexes me is classical music. I get how the visual and textual arts take on Socialist Realist aesthetics—even though what Socialist Realism actually is hard to pin down. But what makes classical music Socialist Realist? And how is it subject to censorship like other art mediums? Also, what about ethnic sounding classical music? How are Soviet ethnic minority composers address the issue of “national in form, socialist in content” in classical music? Lots of questions and fewer answers. 

Luckily, Leah Goldman lives in Pittsburgh and she sat down with me at my home to talk about her work on Soviet classical music, opera, and censorship in the late Stalin period. We also listen to some music and she comments on it too.  

Guest:

Leah Goldman is a Visiting Assistant Professor in European History at Washington & Jefferson College specializing in Soviet cultural history and music. She’s the author of several articles on Soviet classical music censorship and production. Her two most recent articles are “Nationally Informed: The Politics of National Minority Music during Late Stalinism,” published in the Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas and “Negotiating ‘Historical Truth’: Art, Authority, and Iurii Shaporin’s The Decembrists,” in Journal of Musicology. You can find both articles linked on the podcast website srbpodcast.org 


Censorship in Late Stalinist Classical Music

0:15: Поддержка Cтудии 4413 (смотрите запись нашего стрима!), дикий приговор Азату Мифтахову и продолжение кампании солидарности

4:54 Почему Навальный вернулся?

12:35 Митинги 23 января: новое качество протеста 

17:00 Что будет делать власть на думских выборах в сентябре?

21:50 Ждет ли нас ужесточение репрессий? Неудачный дебют «титушек» 23 января

24:00 Могут ли перенести выборы?

27:00 Протесты и реакция левых: знаменитая теория «жабы и гадюки»

32:50 А что в Америке? Байден и карикатура «возвращения к нормальности»

#32: Навальный, протесты, Байден — президент

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