Comments on: Funk Amidst the Food Riots http://www.microkhan.com/2010/02/03/funk-amidst-the-food-riots/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=funk-amidst-the-food-riots Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:38:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Brendan I. Koerner http://www.microkhan.com/2010/02/03/funk-amidst-the-food-riots/comment-page-1/#comment-5933 Brendan I. Koerner Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:24:13 +0000 http://www.microkhan.com/?p=3770#comment-5933 @hubcap: Excellent, thanks for the tip. Will check it out. Though in my heart, there will always be only one true Funkytown: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi%C5%9Fin%C4%83u" rel="nofollow">Chisinau</a> @hubcap: Excellent, thanks for the tip. Will check it out.

Though in my heart, there will always be only one true Funkytown: Chisinau

]]> By: hubcap http://www.microkhan.com/2010/02/03/funk-amidst-the-food-riots/comment-page-1/#comment-5932 hubcap Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:12:38 +0000 http://www.microkhan.com/?p=3770#comment-5932 If you like this sort of thing then you'll probably find that the "Funkytown, Budapest" compilation is the kind of thing that you would like. http://www.discogs.com/Various-Funkytown-Budapest/release/2026940 I'm not promising wall-to-wall greatness, but there are definitely some worthy highlights. If you like this sort of thing then you’ll probably find that the “Funkytown, Budapest” compilation is the kind of thing that you would like.

http://www.discogs.com/Various-Funkytown-Budapest/release/2026940

I’m not promising wall-to-wall greatness, but there are definitely some worthy highlights.

]]> By: Brendan I. Koerner http://www.microkhan.com/2010/02/03/funk-amidst-the-food-riots/comment-page-1/#comment-5930 Brendan I. Koerner Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:25:20 +0000 http://www.microkhan.com/?p=3770#comment-5930 Many thanks for the TAL life--will listen tonight. What struck me most 'bout the Polish example was that the record label was government owned and operated. I can only imagine that the label's political handlers had bigger to fish to fry elsewhere, and so let the producers and artists do what they wanted. Lucky us--I really do love this song. Many thanks for the TAL life–will listen tonight.

What struck me most ’bout the Polish example was that the record label was government owned and operated. I can only imagine that the label’s political handlers had bigger to fish to fry elsewhere, and so let the producers and artists do what they wanted. Lucky us–I really do love this song.

]]> By: Jordan http://www.microkhan.com/2010/02/03/funk-amidst-the-food-riots/comment-page-1/#comment-5928 Jordan Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:30:08 +0000 http://www.microkhan.com/?p=3770#comment-5928 There was a great This American Life piece about jazz in Czechoslovakia and how much the Nazi and Soviet attitudes towards jazz mirrored each other. Freedom, in all its forms, is anathema to authoritarianism. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=770 There was a great This American Life piece about jazz in Czechoslovakia and how much the Nazi and Soviet attitudes towards jazz mirrored each other. Freedom, in all its forms, is anathema to authoritarianism.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=770

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