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The "XX Chromosome Genome Project" by S. Ann Johnson is a contemporary example of a choreopoem. It combines poetry, song and dance to illuminate the commonalities and differences between women of various cultures. [6] In this choreopoem, Johnson writes about eight women in search of self-acceptance and liberation.
Ten Blake Songs" are poems from Blake's "Songs of Innocence and of Experience" and "Auguries of Innocence", set to music by Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1957. "Tyger" is both the name of an album by Tangerine Dream, which is based on Blake's poetry, and the title of a song on this album based on the poem of the same name.
New York Girls", also known as "Can't You Dance the Polka," is a traditional sea shanty. [1] It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 486. [ 2 ] It was collected by W. B. Whall in the 1860s. [ 3 ]
Poetry can often help people make sense of the world in difficult times. For World Poetry Day, The Conversation U.S. has gathered four articles on the power of poetry. 1. Poetry gives people a ...
The song is an overview of great events which unfolded in Vietnam over thirty years ago, written by a living eyewitness of those events. The song tells about "hit & carry" task groups, whose purpose was to hit hostile aircraft and then carry up catapulted pilots, fallen hardware, and weaponry, about Soviet surprise bombings by the usage of ...
One of several songs that Bowie wrote about Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four; Bowie had also hoped to produce a televised musical based on the book. [31] "2112" 2112: Rush: Anthem: Ayn Rand: Song shares themes with the novel, such that Neil Peart recognized Rand in the album's liner notes. [32] "Abigail" Creatures: Motionless in White: The ...
Hacha'a poetry, also known as Tajleebah, from Arabic تجليبة which means bringing back, is about bringing back emotional things like memories, a lost love, mending a broken heart, and so on. [1] Hacha'a poetry is sung in the Hacha'a mode, and describes the suffering of love. The audience hand-claps and interjects verbally with "hacha'a ...
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