The explanation for the Icelandic music surge is difficult to pin down, but it may have to do with the persistence of a communal, close-knit culture, which resists reducing music to a faceless digital utility.
In a country as diverse and poor as India, the persistence of general communal harmony amid occasional outbreaks of disharmony suggests an essentially accommodating nation, one that is capable of living with and absorbing difference.
(Chinen) 'A Night in Treme' (Friday and Saturday) More than any particulars of character or plot, it's the stubborn persistence of New Orleans music — as communal ritual, as cultural currency, as a means of modest income or immodest exhibition — that forms the backbone of the HBO series "Treme".
More than any particulars of character or plot, it's the stubborn persistence of New Orleans music — as communal ritual, as cultural currency, as a means of modest income or immodest exhibition — that forms the backbone of "Treme," set in the months after Hurricane Katrina.
(Chinen) 'A Night in Treme' (Thursday) More than any particulars of character or plot, it's the stubborn persistence of New Orleans music — as communal ritual, as cultural currency, as a means of modest income or immodest exhibition — that forms the backbone of the HBO series "Treme".
They also created lots of communal spaces.
Does that kind of communal voice of propriety still exist?
There is lots of communal violence, lots of ethnic clashes.
Back, too, is the long-dead art of communal reading.
Assam does not have a history of communal problems.
