Littleton to Belgrade: Keywords Text: JZ Art by DCS At the moment (5/9/99) of preparing my exams, I suddenly made a breakthrough into performance, from Littleton to Belgrade. A puzzled and outraged folklorist from China, J Z

Performance = bombing without being bombed
Context = doing it midnight
Text = bombed land and dead bodies and dried tears
Genre = missiles; spokesman
Ethnic genre = dropping missiles to the ethnic
Oral formula = killing you and then saying sorry to you
Vernacular speech = swallowed by bombs
? = ?

Memory = created by killing
Globalization = bombing any corner of the earth
Translocal = yours becoming mine
Transnational = my blood running in your veins
Cross-ethnic = crossing state boundarie and killing the ethnic
? = ?

Folklore = never caring about folk-war or folk-at-war
Public folklore = publicly throwing more folks to war
Academic folklore = weeping quietly under tenure(d)-track for the folks at war
Applied folklore = dropping more bombs to the folks in or not in the war
Material culture = cult of torturing those who are torturing with certain explosive material
Vernacular architecture = after bombed
Ethnomusicology = bombing, screaming, weeping
... played by missiles
? = ?

Barbarous = must be treated in a barbarous way
Civilized = having more nuclear weapons
Dichotomy = you are my enemy, therefore i must kill you
? =?

Dictatorship = doing things at will, e.g., Hitler to Jews,
NATO without SC at UN
Human right = you should give birth to more human beings
so that I have the right to bomb them
Equality = you do wrong, so must I to correct you
Demo-cracy = some people control others
Charity = letting you bleed and then stroking you wounds gently
? = ?

Boom, Alas, I'm Not going to Pass the ExAms. BooM....

JZ
a graduate student from China.