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  2. List of songs based on literary works - Wikipedia

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    Let's Get Free: dead prez: Animal Farm: George Orwell [48] "Anthem" Fly by Night: Rush: Anthem: Ayn Rand: Loosely based on the Rand novel; The band would produce a fuller version in 2112. [32] "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy: Leonard Nimoy: The Hobbit: J. R. R. Tolkien [49] [50] "The Ballad of Poker Alice" Songs ...

  3. File:Salt - Songs of freedom (1906).pdf - Wikipedia

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    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

  4. Lists of music inspired by literature - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. List of anti-war songs - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Anthems in Animal Farm - Wikipedia

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    The later song "Comrade Napoleon" praises Napoleon and fails to represent freedom at all. This change is used to show the corruption of the principles of the animals' rebellion by Animal Farm's leader Napoleon. [1] Both The Internationale and "Beasts of England" reflected the principles of Marxism and Animalism, respectively. Their replacement ...

  7. Go Down Moses - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Meet Han Kang, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature - AOL

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    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.

  9. The World in Six Songs - Wikipedia

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    The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature is a popular science book written by the McGill University neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin, first published by Dutton Penguin in the U.S. and Canada in 2008. It was updated and released in paperback by Plume in 2009 and translated into six languages.