23346. (Edgar Wallace) The Green Mamba [story]
23347. (Alexander Vovin, Edward Vajda & Étienne de la Vaissière) Who Were the *Kjet and
. . . . . What Language Did They Speak? [article]
23348. (Ruth Rendell) From Doon with Death
(Leonid E. Grinin, et al; –ed.) The Early State, Its Alternatives and Analogues:
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READING — OCTOBER 2016
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FILMS – SEPTEMBER 2016
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(Douglas 1954) Them!
(Brooks 1968) The Producers
(Groening & Muzquiz 2013) Futurama: Ep.119 ― Assie Come Home
(Unwin 2003) Agatha Christie’s Poirot: Ep.50 ― Five Little Pigs
(Reardon 2000) The Simpsons: Ep.240 ― Alone Again, Natura-diddily
(Moore 2000) The Simpsons: Ep.241 ― Missionary: Impossible
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First-time listening for September 2016
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23787. (Skepta) Konnichiwa
23788. (Anon.) Hurrian Hymn #6 [oldest known melody, c.1400 BC] [Michael Levy, lyre]
23789. (Anon.) Ancient Assyrian Music of Northern Iraq
23790. (Burning Spear) The Best of Burning Spear [Justice Sound compilation]
23791. (Anon.) Old Iranic Luri Folk Music
23792. (Doobie Brothers) The Doobie Brothers
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READING — SEPTEMBER 2016
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23327. (Jack Hicks & Graham White) Made in Nunavut ― An Experiment in Decentralized
. . . . . Government
23328. (Katherine A. Spielmann) Feasting, Craft Specialization, and the Ritual Mode of
. . . . . Production in Small-Scale Societies [article]
23329. (Benjamin Isakhan) Discourses of Democracy [article]
23330. (Russell Shorto) Amsterdam ― A History of the World’s Most Liberal City
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FILMS – AUGUST 2016
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(Zemeckis 1985) Back to the Future
(Mayne 1974) Doctor Who: Ep.374 ― The Monster of Peladon, Part 5
(Mayne 1974) Doctor Who: Ep.375― The Monster of Peladon, Part 6
(Montagnon 1969) Civilisation, a Personal View by Kenneth Clark: Ep.6 ― Protest and
. . . Communication
(Carr 1952) The Adventures of Superman: Ep.15 ― Treasure of the Incas
(Fleming 1993) Agatha Christie’s Poirot: Ep.36 ― The Yellow Iris
(Carr 1952) The Adventures of Superman: Ep.16 ― Double Trouble
(Moxey 1960) The City of the Dead [aka Horror Hotel] [RiffTrax version]
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First-time listening for August 2016
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23738. (Leon Scott [Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville]) Au claire de la lune [first song
. . . . . recorded, April 9 1860 and reconstructed]
23739. (Leon Scott [Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville]) Chi crederia sotto forme umane e
. . . . . sotto queste pastorali spoglie fosse nascosto un Dio? Non mica un… from Tasso’s
. . . . . Aminta [first recorded spoken words, April or May 1860, reconstructed]
23740. (Leon Scott [Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville]) Complete sound recording
. . . . . experiments, 1853–1860 [reconstructed by Lawrence Berkeley National Labor-atory]
23741. (Constant Lambert) Concerto for Piano and Nine Instruments
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READING — AUGUST 2016
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23289. (Stefan Zweig) The Post-Office Girl [Rausch der Verwandlung, tr. Joel Rotenberg]
23290. (Krzysztof Nowicki) The Final Neolithic in Crete: Terminology and Chronology
. . . . . [article]
23291. (Ármann Jakobsson) The Specter of Old Age: Nasty Old Men in the Sagas of the
. . . . . Icelanders [article]
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Young Winwood
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on August 18, 2016
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Some of my earliest experiences of listening to the blues came from the blues-rock bands of the 1960s and 1970s, which unobtrusively shared the record bins with the chart-topping bands, but were not household words. I heard them long before I learned anything about classic blues. Among my favourites were Traffic, Blind Faith and the Spencer Davis Group. What these three bands shared was the amazing vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Steve Winwood.
Winwood is English, but he learned his trade from the American masters. The older blues singers toured in England alone, relying on local pickup bands for backing wherever they went, and the teenage Winwood, active since the age of 8 in Birmingham’s club scene, played with B.B. King, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, T‑Bone Walker, Chuck Berry, Howlin’ Wolf, Sonny Boy Williamson, and even Bo Diddley! Just how much he learned, and how quickly he learned it is demonstrated by this performance of the 1920s classic “Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out”, at the age of fifteen.