The book Glasba, politika, afekt: novo življenje partizanskih pesmi v Sloveniji ('Music, Politics, Affect: New Lives of Partisan Songs in Slovenia') explores the potentialities of music in imagining ...alternatives and establishing alliances, which introduce new senses of belonging and solidarity in global neoliberal capitalism. It examines the reactualization of partisan songs in post-Yugoslav Slovenia with an emphasis on the collective spirit, its rebelliousness and emancipatory potential. In researching the “new lives” of partisan songs, the book focuses on the self-organized female choir Kombinat, an emblematic example of thinking about the partisan art in Slovenia today. Just a part of Kombinat repertoire, partisan songs are discursively, sonically, spatially, ideologically and symbolically reloaded, challenging thus the various boundaries in thinking about this legacy in Slovenian context. Using theoretical framework of affect theory, and particularly theories of music materialism and sonic affect, the book provides an alternative perspective to our understanding of political capacity of music. It addresses four main issues: the role of music and sound in political mobilization and participation, the potentials of musical alliances and musical self-organization and self-education, referencing musical past as a way of political engagement, and finally, revitalization and reactualization of socialist ideas and values in the current moment of global transition.
V nasprotju s prevladujočimi pripovednimi žanri potopisne književnosti predstavljajo njeno lirsko vrsto pesmi s popotniško motiviko, ki sta jih tako Josip Stritar kot Anton Aškerc po trikrat povezala ...v lirske cikle. Ker sta prizaporedju upoštevala kronotop potovanja, sta tako oblikovala nedominantno narativno strukturo sintagmatskega cikla, s tem pa tudi implicitno zgodbo o potovanju oziroma lirski ciklični potopis, varianto v 19. stoletju na Slovenskem zelo popularnega potopisja. Vendar sta uresničevala različni težnji: Stritar je s temi cikli liriziral v izhodišču pripovedno zvrsti! potopisa, Aškerc pa je z njimi liriko približal dominantnim pripovednim zvrstem v realizmu.
Vabilo na koncert šaljivih ljudskih pesmi z naslovom Prav luštno je na svet živet, nedelja, 15. november, ob 15.00 v Večnamenski dvorana GD Vrh nad Laškim.
Akademiku Toporišiču smo se ob 90-letnici rojstva poklonili z njemu ljubo pesmijo Zagorski zvonovi v izvedbi mladih tamburašev iz Kulturno-umetniškega društva Oton Župančič Artiče: Alena Kostevca, ...Blaža Pleteršnika in Kristiana Franića ter izvrstnega saksofonista, domačina Lovra Ravbarja.