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Degas' 'Russian dancers' is renamed 'Ukrainian dancers' by UK's National Gallery
“It is almost certain that these visiting dancers, and those drawn by Degas, were Ukrainian, rather than Russian,” the gallery said of the artwork that features the blue and yellow of Ukraine’s flag.
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Consumos web. 04/06/2022
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Consumos web. 03/13/2022
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Ukraine: Cardiff orchestra pulls Tchaikovsky music over war - BBC News
Cardiff Philharmonic Orchestra said it would be "inappropriate at this time" to perform the composer's music after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The orchestra said a member had family in Ukraine and it was also aware some of Tchaikovsky's work was deemed offensive to Ukrainians.
tags: censura censura social mojigatería mundial decadencia cultural excesos antidiscriminación
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Ringo Starr mural unveiled at the Beatles' fan spot - BBC News
A mural of Ringo Starr has been unveiled on the site of a former pub, streets away from where the Beatles drummer grew up in Liverpool.
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Consumos web. 03/07/2022
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la precipitación de los acontecimientos en la invasión de Ucrania, ha llevado a sus responsables a considerar su retirada del programa, atendiendo a las recomendaciones de la Academia Europea de Cine (EFA), que este martes que se unía a las sanciones globales masivas actualmente en vigor contra Rusia por la invasión de Ucrania y respaldaba “plenamente el llamamiento de la Academia de Cine de ese país para boicotear el cine ruso”.
tags: mojigatería mundial excesos antiterroristas censura decadencia cultural imperialismo
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Consumos web. 02/23/2022
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In 1992, Guitar World pointed out that once Indian music ingrained itself into George, his guitar playing became “more elastic, yet very precise.” George was “finding more notes between the cracks, like you can in Indian music-especially on your slide work.”
tags: Beatles beatlepeople RaviShankar GeorgeHarrison beatlegear beatlehistory
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Consumos web. 02/17/2022
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'Insensitive' Van Gogh souvenirs removed from sale amid backlash - CNN Style
"This case feels like a small but clear example of the cynicism and commercialism that has affected the modern art landscape, as mental health and mental illness are treated as a joke -- which they aren't -- or as a novelty."
tags: censura social mojigatería mundial decadencia cultural VincentVanGogh
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Consumos web. 02/10/2022
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"Así como la Ñ es para el español, el 'ahorita' es para el español de México y para toda nuestra idiosincrasia porque concentra la historia completa y el orgullo de este país", le dice a BBC Mundo. "Yo creo que básicamente podría decirse que el 'ahorita' sirve para no obedecer. ¿Cómo le respondía uno con un 'no' a los españoles que daban órdenes? Pues se le decía 'ahorita', por supuesto",
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Consumos web. 01/29/2022
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‘Fight Club’ Author Chuck Palahniuk Responds to China’s New Ending – The Hollywood Reporter
The author also said that he saw the irony in many Americans’ angry response to China’s actions, given that his books are banned in many locations across the U.S.
tags: mojigatería mundial censura censura social China decadencia cultural
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Consumos web. 01/27/2022
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How The Animals inspired one of The Beatles greatest songs
I like some of the things the Animals try to do,” McCartney recalled in 1966, “like the song Eric Burdon wrote about places in Newcastle on the flip of one of their hits. I still want to write a song about the places in Liverpool where I was brought up
tags: Beatles beatlehistory beatlesongs
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The Beatles song that uses just one chord
For almost the entirety of the track, the song stays on the C Major chord. No variations, so suspensions, no additional notes. But the complication comes when Lennon sings “it is not dying”. That’s because one of the loops, that of a Hammond organ, is playing a Bb Major chord. The rest of the song continues to play C Major, but Lennon’s vocal lines highlights the Bb Major to the extent that chord has to be considered a Bb Major/C chord, thereby ruining the pipe dream of recording a song with only one chord.
tags: Beatles beatlehistory beatlesongs
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Consumos web. 01/22/2022
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La humanidad está abandonando la razón, según un estudio - Levante-EMV
la creciente irrelevancia de la verdad fáctica en el discurso público es parte de una tendencia creciente que comenzó hace décadas: durante los últimos cuarenta años, el interés público ha experimentado un cambio acelerado de lo colectivo a lo individual, y de la racionalidad a la emoción.
tags: neotenia decadencia cultural
20220106
Consumos web. 01/06/2022
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The Beatles' Let It Be sessions: the real story | Louder
George Martin, being the gentleman that he is, realised that I had been compromised in a way, and he saw fit to put me at ease about the situation. He took me to lunch, and said: ‘You’re not to worry about a thing.’ I was feeling really awkward about the whole thing, and he was completely at ease about the situation. Because he is confident of his own abilities.