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Songs Inspired by Literature, Chapter Two: Larry Kenneth Potts: Nothing Like It in the World: Stephen Ambrose: Relates the story of "Poker" Alice Ivers [51] "The Ballad of Skip Wiley" Barometer Soup: Jimmy Buffett: Tourist Season: Carl Hiaasen: A song about the character Skip Wiley from Hiaasen's 1986 novel. [52] "Banana Co." Radiohead: One ...
English: Songs of freedom by Salt, Henry Stephens, 1851-1939 Publication date [1906] Publisher London, New York, W. Scott Collection cdl; americana Digitizing sponsor MSN Contributor University of California Libraries Language English
This is a list of articles, or subsections of articles, about music inspired by literature. [1] Musical settings of, or music inspired by, poems by Byron; Edgar Allan Poe and music; Music related to Anne Rice's novels; Works inspired by J. R. R. Tolkien [1] Music based on the works of Oscar Wilde; List of songs based on poems; Romeo and Juliet ...
Some anti-war songs lament aspects of wars, while others patronize war.Most promote peace in some form, while others sing out against specific armed conflicts. Still others depict the physical and psychological destruction that warfare causes to soldiers, innocent civilians, and humanity as a whole.
Lyrically, the song refers to the liberation of the ancient Jewish people from Egyptian slavery. That story held a second meaning for enslaved African Americans, because they related their experiences under slavery to those of Moses and the Israelites who were enslaved by the pharaoh, [5] and the idea that God would come to the aid of the persecuted resonated with them.
The prize for literature is awarded for an author’s full body of work, not a specific text. Like all those awarded the Nobel Prize, Kang has won 11m krona ($1.1 million) for the prize.
The Danish Tolkien Ensemble has set all the songs in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings to music.. The music of Middle-earth consists of the music mentioned by J. R. R. Tolkien in his Middle-earth books, the music written by other artists to accompany performances of his work, whether individual songs or adaptations of his books for theatre, film, radio, and games, and music more generally ...
Song Offerings (Bengali: গীতাঞ্জলি) is a volume of lyrics by Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore, rendered into English by the poet himself, for which he was awarded the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature.