GlobalYell’s blog news
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The last blog for the year
Hello, dear readers, It is the end of another year and the last posting for 2024. What a year it has been. We have been lucky enough to travel and…
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The Spotify playlist
This week’s Spotify playlist features, as always, audio that relates to the articles on the blog. In addition there are some extras, it being the festive season for many across…
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Shooting fashion in a slum
In November this year, an NGO in India released an Instagram video of a fashion shoot with a difference. For 41% of India’s urban population “home” is a slum. (A…
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Studio update
The new studio is being prepared to begin opening up in mid-January. With newly-painted floors and rugs down, the space is looking bright and cheery. There is an exhibition of…
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Waving at fairies
At this time of year when magical things happen for many people across the globe, what could be more apt than this…? https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1037478179768402 or this…?
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What’s on Spotify this week
This playlist features: Songlines by Nyoongi and Rüdiger Oppermann Australia meets Europe in Songlines, a piece that combines plucked strings with didgeridoo. Songlines are the walking music that Aboriginal people…
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Baboon
Baboons, those Bad Boys of the Old World, have a reputation… Wily, cunning, vicious… these are all words that are used to describe our primate cousins. Baboons are seen as…
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The Spotify playlist
Each week a playlist of audio is created to go along with the blog. The playlist, on the Spotify platform, is made up of songs and sounds that have some…
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Iconic Australian design
In the 1980s and ’90s, jumpers in Australia became startling. Beginning with Coogi, a fashion label first established in Melbourne under the name Cuggi, the bright colours and bold patterning…
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Zimbabwe’s ancient musical instruments
A recent study has been looking at identifying musical instruments depicted in Zimbabwean rock art. Rock art is found on almost every continent, Antarctica being the exception for obvious reasons.…
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