How Christmas music in adverts and shops harnesses nostalgia to encourage you to spend more: Feestocks/Unsplash In my research, I have spent a good deal of time speaking with people from across the world about their relationship with sound and music – how it features in their everyday lives and how it influences their attitudes …
Nostalgia in politics: pan-European study sheds light on how (and why) parties appeal to the past in their election campaigns: Unsplash/Jon Tyson, CC BY Have you ever felt nostalgic when thinking about the past? Then you are not alone. According to survey research, around two-thirds of the European public feel nostalgic. Nostalgia is defined as …
New Beatles and Rolling Stones music owes much of its success to the psychology of nostalgia: The Beatles wave to fans after arriving at New York's Kennedy Airport in 1964. US Library of Congress Throughout the 1960s, the Rolling Stones and the Beatles were engaged in a friendly rivalry. Despite being amicable in person, they …
Experience Linux desktop nostalgia with Rox: Experience Linux desktop nostalgia with Rox Seth Kenlon Wed, 12/14/2022 – 03:00 Rox-Filer is an open source file manager for Linux, once intended for the defunct Rox desktop but now a streamlined application for any window manager or desktop. There hasn’t been much activity on the Rox project since …
Gifts of Christmas past: buy secondhand to give your loved ones the gift of nostalgia and imagination: Alex Traveler / Shutterstock Christmas is a period for celebrating our relationships with family and friends – a time filled with nostalgia and sentimentality. Of course for many people it’s also a time of conspicuous consumption, even if …
South Africa in the news: Nostalgia Wine & Jazz Lounge sets OTR grand opening for Aug. 21: Wine is also a big focus at Nostalgia, with 31 wines from Italy, New Zealand, California and South Africa, featuring winemakers like Aslina Wines and the McBride Sisters Collection. Eight of the wines …: “South Africa” – BingNews …
Rugby World Cup final sparks nostalgia for another Mandela moment: EPA-EFE South Africa is emerging from a disastrous decade under the presidency of Jacob Zuma. The Zuma years crippled the economy and battered the country’s state-owned enterprises. Amid the relentless exposés of intractable corruption, politics became increasingly divisive and racist. There was very little cause …
Nostalgia Illustrated: N. C. Wyeth, Advertising and American Cultural History – a Culture interest event taking place on 2019-09-12 18:00:00 in United States Douglas B. Dowd, Professor of Art and American Culture Studies, Washington University, St. Louis, and director of the university’s Modern Graphic History Library, will discuss N. C. Wyeth’s commercial images and how …
Seth White’s Nostalgia (Be-Bop Jazz) – a Music interest event taking place on 2018-07-07 19:00:00 in United States Drummer Seth White, (son of legendary jazz drummer Rocky White of The Duke Ellington Orchestra) and his Be-Bop Infused band Nostalgia will make their debut at High Volume Music Live at this one of a kind show! …
Christmas nostalgia is something to be wary of, according to literary greats: kryzhov/Shutterstock “The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless,” starts Henry James’s 1898 novella The Turn of the Screw. Though an ultimately “gruesome” tale of ghosts, this is “Christmas Eve in an old house”, and everything is as it should be. …
Welcome back to La La Land – musicals, nostalgia and escaping reality: Dale Robinette The death of the film musical has regularly been announced. For almost as long as there have been film musicals. Its open expression of sentiment, simple plots and addiction to artifice have all conspired to ensure that it has persistently refused …