Word: songs
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...that separates being from non-being, a line that blurs and trembles when we realize the contingency of our present existence on the now-invisible events of the past. For this reason, it is tempting to read “Austerlitz” as Sebald’s swan song, haunted, as it is, by one man’s apprehension of the inevitable obliteration of all things by time. But it is more certainly his masterpiece...
...performance set at the installation, will function in three parts: rock/alternative vocalist Imani Uzuri will sing excerpts of Rumi’s poetry in the style of Negro spirituals; the Harvard KeyChange will perform an a cappella remix of “Strange Fruit,” a song condemning lynching that was popularized by Billie Holiday; and members of KeyChange will hold a call-and-response with Uzuri. “The viewership and interaction [of ‘Stranger Fruit’] will sprinkle on and marinate [‘Constellation’] long after the performance...
...another world while you’re pissing on my casket.” While Casablancas’ freewheeling tone adds a sense of fun not heard in his voice for several years, it doesn’t distract from the fact that the song never really moves anywhere. The same hook repeats for five minutes, without any substantial increase in excitement or drama...
...nation's characteristics every day," says Frédéric Lefebvre, spokesman for Sarkozy's ruling Union for a Popular Majority Party. Given such cultural erosion, Lefebvre called for a defense of our "cultural model and la Douce France" - an allusion to crooner Charles Trenet's famous 1943 song rhapsodizing about the villages, people and traditions of pastoral France. (See pictures of the Nazis in Paris during World...
...Trenet's song was meant to be an inspiration to his countrymen to withstand the brutal Nazi occupation of France. Some of Besson's critics say the national-identity debate, meanwhile, is rooted in modern-day xenophobia, not nostalgia. Perhaps a solution might be to inspire patriotism by asking French people to warble Trenet's ditty regularly rather than dutifully drone "La Marseillaise" once a year...