Host
Eurozine
Host
2008-05-13
Abstracts for Host 04/2008
Music is a gift and a feeling... (With Radek Banga aka Gipsy about barking dogs, hit geese and vulgar texts)
Radoslav Banga (born 1982) comes from a family of Romany musicians. He started his musical career at the age of 15 as a rapper with a hip-hop project called Syndrom Snopp. However, the vociferous nestling has progressively evolved into an unquestionable talent, endowed with sweet voice and a hard-boiled message, respected producer and, last but not least, front man of the very successful project Gipsy.cz, which combines hip-hop foundations and Romany melodies and rhythms with occasional Jazz rebounds.
Karolína Stehlíková
Women with no self doubt (Image of a bluestocking in the Norvegian novel)
If it is true that male characters of the Norwegian novel of the last 30 years have been presented as insecure and uprooted individuals doubting their identity, it is probably logical that their female counterparts have shown opposite tendencies. The Norwegian emancipated heroine, who started to demand her rights as early as in the works by Camilla Collett (1813-1895) and Amalie Skram (1846-1905), took the male-governed world by storm and the result is that her present image may seem quite nightmarish (not only to her self-conscious other half).