Kategorie: Songs
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Don’t Shoot! Don’t Be Silent!
A Song by Zemfira about Direct and Indirect Violence In 2005, the Russian singer-songwriter Zemfira wrote the song Nye strelyaitye (Don’t shoot). In a video clip from 2022, she explicitly relates the song to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. A Singer in the Sights of the Media In 2007, Zemfira commented in…
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Little Song about my Life (And the first love …)
Bulat Okudzhava’s Little Song About My Life. While the Soviet leadership was trying to secure peace through repression and nuclear weapons, intensive discussions were taking place in dissident circles about the mental prerequisites of war and peace. This is also reflected in Bulat Okudzhava’s Little Song About My Life. Bulat Okudzhava (1924…
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A Peace Prayer Against the Witchcraft of War
A Song by Boris Grebenshchikov about Good and Evil Magic In his song Vorozhba (Magic Powers), the Russian singer-songwriter Boris Grebenshchikov contrasts the evil magic of war with the healing magic of a life based on striving for harmony with oneself and the world. Grebenshchikov’s „No to War“ With Boris Grebenshchikov, another…
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The winter: stagnation and transformation
Mariee Sioux: Wizard flurry home In winter the outer life comes to a standstill. But it is precisely this what opens the door to inner transformation for us. As the other side of life, winter is the place of death. At the same time, however, its otherness can be understood…
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A Sip of Freedom
Tschizh (Chizh) & Co: Krugom tajga A russian son about freedom A song by the Russian band Chizh & Co revolves around a brief moment of freedom experienced by a prisoner during a temporary escape from a penal camp. The song can also be related to the current situation in Russia. Taiga…
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The Woman: Goddess or Predator?
Poems from Charles Baudelaires Collection of Poetry Les Fleurs du mal/7 The representation of female figures in Baudelaire’s work is distinctly ambiguous. The woman can appear as a man-eating femme fatale, but also as an angel-like being who promises salvation from the valley of earthly life. An Ambivalent Image of…
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