Tag: imperialism
Dorian Gray discovers world music
![Dorian Gray discovers world music Dorian Gray discovers world music](http://i0.wp.com/gwallter.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/dorian-5.jpg?resize=300%2C200&ssl=1)
In the cosy light of our post-colonial glow-lamps we tend to imagine that ‘world music’ was discovered, and given its long-deserved recognition, by our own generation. We still have dozens of LPs and CDs of Indian and west African music, rooted out in Tower Records in Piccadilly Circus in the 1980s. We kept an eye […]
From empire to environment: inside the Brangwyn Hall
![From empire to environment: inside the Brangwyn Hall From empire to environment: inside the Brangwyn Hall](http://i0.wp.com/gwallter.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/DSC_0113.jpg?resize=300%2C200&ssl=1)
It was a Monday morning a few weeks ago and I was taking some photos of the outside of the Brangwyn Hall. A motor caravan had parked in the bay in front. A man leaned out of its window and kindly promised to move out of the way and let me perfect my Leni Riefenstahl […]