Folk Music in the Baltics at the Age of Digital Globalization

Shaped by factors like global outreach and immediacy, particularly the internet represents the multi-layered nature of contemporary globalization (cf Held et al. 2002). How have digital newspapers, social media and other internet platforms altered the situation of smaller music microcultues, especially in regions that have been on the fringes of global networks? This paper analyses the situation of the Latvian postfolklore band Ilgi between 2001 and 2008. Focusing on the group’s label UPE, the paper highlights how the internet became a significant means of existence during this specific period. Having established a local niche with a sound studio and CD shops, UPE combined this physical basis with outreach strategies, such as marketing and direct internet sales, which guaranteed the survival of the independent label. This strategy was also taken up by the band itself who started to develop a strong presence on social media like MySpace. At the same time, Ilgi has been using the internet as a central means of communicating with diasporic communities in the U.S. and Canada – hereby creating structures that were described as « intercultures » by Slobin (1993). This indicates that the local-global dichotomy can no longer be sufficiently addressed by a horizontal or vertical two-dimensional perception. Falling also back on the fieldwork experiences gained in Latvia, the paper finally addresses the question of how internet representation relates to the actual local situation – and how this has been altering the fieldwork perception. With regard to this situation – how useful are the approaches that have been developed within the context of « Media Anthropology » that investigates mass media items as multi-layered, densified symbolic objects?

New Palestinean folk songs

noted, coll., ed. and arr. by Abraham Wolf Binder

Sēfer Tam we-yāšār : han-niqrā be-šēm sēfer hay-yāšār ʿal hat-tôrā ... di maiśim wos Goṭ ... hoṭ geṭon fun brias ha-olam biz Jošue dos folk Jisroel kein Eretz Jisroel ... fun loišn ha-koideš oif ivri-ṭaiṭš ...

[Jakob Ben-Jeremja Mattitjahu]

For dem kongresse : ein mahnworṭ in ernsṭer tzaiṭ an doz jidiše folk in Hungarn

fon Aleksander Knoppler

Dem milner's treren : The millers tears ; folk song

Jacob Beimel

If I were to possess the King`s treasures : Jewish folk song

[arr. by M. Persin]

A Folk Ohn A Heim

Solomon Small (Smulewitz)

Blanche Marchesi's Collection of Singers, Bilderwand, 16. Greville Place, London

Signatur des Originals: S 36/F10935

Grain-size distribution and Folk's statistics at DSDP Leg 64 Holes

Grain size of 139 unconsolidated sediment samples from seven DSDP sites in the Guaymas Basin and the southeastern tip of the Baja California Peninsula was determined by sieve and pipette techniques. Shepard (1954) classification and Inman (1952) parameters correlation were used for all samples. Sediment texture ranged from sand to silty clay. On the basis of grain-size parameter, the sediments can be divided into three broad groups: (1) very fine sands and coarse silts; (2) medium- to very fine silts; and (3) clays and coarse silts.