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A Mountain Musical
Eva Eckert. 2008, 52 minutes. Austria.
A man tears out his wife’s hair. A young poacher is shot down by his father. A pig is violently butchered. For the people of the rural and industrial communities that surround Erzberg, a mountain in the Austrian Alps that has been mined for its iron ore since Roman times, these lyrics comprise the stories of their lives. Far from the sanitized image associated with Tyrolean folk singers, these hard-working, hard-drinking people from the heart of Bavaria provide a humorous and more genuine Alpine ethnomusicology.
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