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The relationship between form and content: The material presented--folk song, dance, and story--was originally recorded using appliances which were cutting-edge at the time but are now so obsolete as to be impossible to find. The fact that we're able to hear it at all today is the result of a multi-generational passing-down through recording technologies as they pass into obsolescence. The songs and dances themselves have been passed in the only way possible--through oral, physically taught tradition. The transference of materials affects their content--audio quality, video/visual decay--and the context of their performance affects the audience's interpretation and its relevance. What technology led to what? How does each recording device affect not only the music's presentation, but the music's ability to be passed on to the next technology? Family tree of technological advancement--just like cousins who chose not to have kids, some technologies' relatives stop after one generation.

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Rebellion of an innocent in a guilty world...there is no innocence. Separation of self from them--protesting global warming as though you've always lived without causing harm, haven't used electricity, fossil fuels, haven't ridden in a car or used plastics. Don't Uncle Tom me. you're complicit in the world's evils same as me, same as your mother...

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Artaud-inspired theatre is usually intriguing and typically disappointing.

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Image of coolness out of hollywood has been bought by young men who wear their trousers so low the are actually hobbled by their clothes. The power of imagery to control the minds of the people. (Is this useful? If they're kids who're inspired to violence and crime by this imagery, then surely having trousers around their ankles makes them easier to catch. I'm sure police encourage this silly type of dress, as it simplifies law enforcement. )