With memorable choreography by Jerome Robbins and timeless songs such as "America" and "Tonight", West Side Story stands as both a masterpiece of cinema and an enduring testament to the power of love. Released: 1961 Directed by: Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise Dig Deeper The Behind-The-Scenes ...
William Blake, “America, A Prophecy”(1793) - Written by the famous English poet 17 years after the American Revolution, this poem has long been an icon in patriotic poetry. A mythical look at what might come out of the new country, Blake romanticizes the tale and clearly shows he too ...
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She wrote really expressive music that broke boundaries in her time. And she was a rare figure of the Middle Ages in leaving behind manuscripts of her songs – it meant that on around the 800th anniversary of her birth, the music community was able to rediscover her work and revive her s...
I see Harris’s overt use of patriotic songs, whether Beyoncé’s“Freedom” or the Civil War-era “Battle Cry of Freedom,” as a strategic reclamation of patriotism for the Democratic Party. Political fandom These playlists, pop star endorsements, and battles over usage rights may show ho...
The first of three #1s from the New Jersey-born blue-eyed soul band. 3 Weeks SSgt. Barry Sadler –“The Ballad of the Green Berets” The patriotic song flew up the charts upon its January release, thanks in part to Sadler’s performance onThe Ed Sullivan Show. It was the surprise Re...
A national anthem is a patriotic musical composition that evokes and eulogises the history and traditions of a country and its people. The song is usually either recognised by the country’s home government, oremerges through popular use. Subsequently, some countries may regard more than one son...
so we put on the most recent record that we liked, which was a Dr. John album [Babylon] that had a song ['The Patriotic Flag-Waiver'] with snatches of 'My Country Tis Of Thee' and 'America The Beautiful' in the chorus. Our wives were with us, and suddenly one of them ran in,...
But we don’t have to look to the history books, or stoop to peer at the fading words on a long-dead soldier’s crumbling tombstone to recognize the sacrifices made in the name of the United States of America.This is the first Memorial Day observed since the withdrawal, in December, ...
Lethal Weapon(1987) and Die Hard (1988) defined the action flick, and both spawned hit sequels. Sylvester Stallone’s Rambo flexed America’s muscles and represented the nation’s renewed patriotic fervor inFirst Blood (1982), Rambo: First Blood, Part II (1985) and Rambo III (1988)....