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	Song - TLH Topical Index
		Song, of heaven 10, 30, 40, 66, 67, 70, 83, 125, 127, 193, 205, 222, 250, 256, 339, 340, 344, 352, 415, 491, 589, 599, 608, 613, 652
		Song, of saints 4, 10, 41, 67, 143, 284, 527, 584, 619
		Song, of triumph 57, 84, 95, 102, 155, 193, 198, 214, 222, 424, 463, 476, 658
	www.lutheran-hymnal.com /online/tlh_s3.htm (552 words)

	Topical song - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Topical songs are often (but needn't be) protest songs.
		Although English-language topical songs are more associated with the political left than the right, this is by no means a given.
		Two examples of right-wing topical songwriters are Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler who had a hit in 1966 with "Ballad of the Green Beret" or Toby Keith, who has written numerous songs in favor of aggressive U.S. military policies in reaction to the September 11, 2001 attacks.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Topical_song (492 words)

	The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Recorded on 23 October 1963, the song was released on Dylan's 1964 album The Times They Are A-Changin' and re-released in 1985 on the compilation album Biograph.
		Live renditions of the song by its author can be found on the albums Live 1975 (2002) and Live 1964 (2004).
		Dylan recorded his song on October 23, when the trial was still relatively fresh news, and it was soon released, on January 13, 1964.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Lonesome_Death_of_Hattie_Carroll (431 words)

	First Album
		This song was written after Gary hitchhiked to New York from Charlotte North Carolina and experienced the despair on the streets of the world's largest city.
		Another rare non-topical song, this is a very "hippy on the road" angst poem about being your than 21-years in a world where a young man could be drafted and taught to kill at 18 but could not drink or vote until he was 21.
		The song was especially well-received by more 500,000 union workers in 1981 at the Solidarity Day demonstration in Washington DC where Gary sand to his largest audience ever.
	www.garygreen.com /1stAlbum.htm (767 words)

	LISTENING NOTES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The songs are sung during Islamic festivals or to celebrate the festivals that commemorate the Prophet Mohammed's birth.
		The song includes a stanza refrain with a call and response stylistic structure that expands the refrain by adding a section in a different feel, although the song is in the same meter.
		A topical song -- "Dale Wangu" -- accompanied on the bangwe (raft zither).
	www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu /courses/236a/listening_notes.htm (11194 words)

	Popular Music In America, Part 1
		If it be a song the words must contain some sentiment common in appeal to all, sentiment touching the home, love, joy or sorrow; or the theme may be some subject which at the time is agitating the public mind.
		In all of the popular songs of the early part of the present era there is to be noted a very general similarity of construction and treatment; the melodies, harmonies and rhythms are simple, though not to the same extent as those of an earlier time.
		In the several classes or divisions of popular songs those of more serious character strive to make their appeal equally through both words and music; in the march song the music is of most account, while the comic song depends largely on the words.
	www.parlorsongs.com /insearch/popmusic/popmusic.asp (5781 words)

	Big Bridge #9
		This anthology is a mix of Phil's early starkly topical songs and his later and final works which are subtle commentaries on the mores of fame, the mores of fortune, and the mores of napalmery and death.
		Because of his dedication to the topical song, and because of his political concerns, Phil suffered the scorn of certain of his fellow singers, some of whom he intimately admired.
		In early '68 Phil moved to Los Angeles after which his songs began to reflect the various modes and conflicts to be found in trying to relate the concept of democratic socialism to the empire of sauna.
	www.bigbridge.org /issue9/ochsesanders.htm (5451 words)

	The Foremen: Folk Heroes
		Topical songs about politics are a great tradition that goes back to the earliest days of this country.
		But the golden days of the topical song in the current century was during the 1960s when the folksingers of late Fifties and early Sixties became the protest singers of the mid-1960s at the height of the Vietnam War, the civil rights and free speech movements.
		Zimmerman started writing songs that were a sendup of the old style of the Kingston Trio, the Limelighters and others of their day.
	georgegraham.com /foremen.html (1195 words)

	03.07.patterson
		Despite right-wing efforts to co-opt his song "Born In The USA," Springsteen has long been a left-leaning, populist voice with a traceable tie to the Woody Guthrie tradition of topical songwriting.
		After all, the 1960s topical song icon took his own life in 1976 after descending into psychological disorientation.
		Rather, it should be a rallying cry for continuing creative ambitiousness and excellence with a topical bent, especially in light of all the old material being recycled to address this current crisis.
	www.populist.com /03.07.patterson.html (937 words)

	Big Bridge #9
		He had at least as much to do with making the “topical song” a respectable form within folk-music circles in the early-mid 1960s as Dylan, and of course kept on creating his art, and yes I’d say his best art, within that form, as he self-mocking claimed on his live album, “I play Bobby Dylan.
		His most seemingly impersonal political topical songs take on an added significance if we keep it in mind that Ochs himself had actually been a soldier, had grown up in a family with a military history, and made a break.
		This song appears on his last, and greatest, collection of exclusively (well, almost) topical songs, and perhaps points to a turning point for Ochs insofar as it may show a restlessness with the topical song that was his forte.
	www.bigbridge.org /issue9/ochscstroffolino.htm (1482 words)

	Feral Crow blends the topical and the tender
		Ainslie is razor sharp, indeed, on a CD which manages to be topical and tender, dark yet uplifting, rich in polished poetry and raw emotion, a love call and a call to action.
		"Confession" is a stunning song which puts the listener in the mind of a torturer and jarringly juxtaposes images of human cruelty with the mundane gestures of everyday life.
		The other topical song is "Rice Grows in Vietnam," a hopeful ballad of healing in the aftermath of war, a song which tells us "There will be days when rain will fall/Upon these fields, upon the wall/May the harvest of these tears/Bring peace to our remaining years."
	cattailmusic.com /Reviews/FeralCrowjpotter.htm (804 words)

	George Graham Reviews The Formen's 2nd CD
		The premise of the song, of course, is the assault on Public Broadcasting among certain members of Congress.
		While many of their songs are likely to be out of date in a couple of years, their relevance and currency makes this album great for 1996.
		But the Foremen's topical songs are done well enough that they will still be fun to listen to, even when you've already heard the jokes.
	www.georgegraham.com /foremen2.html (1139 words)

	The Union Maid (Woody Guthrie/Millard Lampell)
		Although Woody later wrote that his song "Union Maid" was inspired by the story of a southern Tenant Farmers' Union organizer...
		A militant feminist, she criticized Pete and Woody for never singing any songs about the women in the labor movement, and Woody responded that night by writing a parody of "Red Wing"....
		Pete's first reaction, when he saw the song the next morning, was that it was kind of dumb.
	members.fortunecity.com /folkfred/unionm.html (549 words)

	PMN - Struggle and Song
		But the tide of movement music songs sung to, and (crucially) by, groups of people to inform the ignorant, incite action, lift spirits and build solidarity among toilers for change has ebbed as well as flooded along with the swell and shrinkage of movements for change.
		The next movement with songs at its center was the effort to build one big union and usher in an era of workers' self-government, led by the Industrial Workers of the World in the first decades of the 20th century.
		Songs had played a role in other movements at the end of the 19th century, notably in the mine workers' struggles in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia and Virginia; in the nationwide fight for the eight-hour day; and in the Populists attempt to link farmers and workers in an alliance for justice.
	www.peoplesmusic.org /Info/News_seymour.htm (2801 words)

	Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum : Programs : For Teachers : Lesson Plans
		A song like 1958's "Yakety Yak" by The Coasters is a classic of teenage rebellion, hardening parents and school authorities in their opposition to rock and roll.
		Inspired by people like Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, Dylan wrote deeply resonant topical songs, some of which ("Masters of War," "Blowin' in the Wind") were first published in Broadside, a mimeographed magazine started by Seeger in 1961 for the express purpose of generating contemporary topical songs.
		Choose two songs which have competing points of view or suggest different ways of solving a problem (for example a pro-Vietnam and an anti-war song or song supporting integrationist trend in 1960s with a song in more separatist vein).
	www.rockhall.com /programs/plandetail.asp?id=525 (4812 words)

	No Man's Land (Eric Bogle)
		I wrote this song after a short and very sobering tour round one of the vast military cemeteries in Northern France.
		It's a song that was written about the military cemeteries in Flanders and Northern France.
		This song was recorded by Hannes Wader -- but he changed all the words...
	members.fortunecity.com /folkfred/noman.html (571 words)

	Strange Fruit (1940)
		It was during my stint at Café that a song was born which became my personal protest -- "Strange Fruit." The germ of the song was in a poem written by Lewis Allen.
		A few years later Lillian Smith told me the song inspired her to write the novel and the play about a lynching.
		It was a bold move at that time [1939] as songs of protest about racial discrimination were almost unknown....
	members.fortunecity.com /folkfred/strange.html (516 words)

	Folkways Smithsonian Recordings
		This song was written by Cunningham for the field hands in the Mississippi Delta region in 1937 and performed by the Red Dust Players, the political theater group of which Sis was a member in Oklahoma just before World War II.
		This song was composed by Sis Cunningham and her brother Bill (1902-1967).
		Aunt Molly Jackson (Mary Magdalene Garland [1880-1960]) came from a family of eastern coal miners and was a veteran of the many coal strikes of the early 20th century (she was first jailed at the age of ten).
	www.folkways.si.edu /projects_initiatives/broadside/artists/sis_cunningham.html (1242 words)

	Inventory of the Broadside Collection, 1962-1991
		"The Migrant Song," Danny Valdez and Agustin Lira.
		The discussion turns to Nina Simone and her song "Mississippi Goddam." The question is raised as to who is more influential to modern writers: Woody Guthrie or Bob Dylan.
		Millius predicts that topical songs will become more popular as "newspapers continue to let us down." Millius states that he believes that Dylan has already written his best music.
	www.lib.unc.edu /mss/inv/htm/20289.html (5851 words)

	A1 Bollywood Hindi Tamil Telugu Indian Music Videos Songs Soundtracks Movie Film and News - SmasHits.com
		Songs from the heart of Gujrat, describing the festivals, traditions and culture of the State through their melodies.
		Songs from the Golden Era of Indian music industry, whose sweetness is still alive and will never fade, proving that OLD IS GOLD.
		Songs from all the periods of Bollywood music industry, including all the movies that falls between Oldies and Forthcoming.
	ww.smashits.com /index.cfm?Page=Audio&SubPage=ShowTracks&AlbumID=3509 (485 words)

	Mike Nobel Here Comes Yesterday
		All songs down to even the lowest rank are still well done and pretty, but with no funny.
		They basically are ranked by interest to me. There are topical songs as old as 1979 but some of them have become relevent again, hence the name of the album.
		An old song that elaborates on the old Wendy's commercial catch phrase as applied to Walter Mondale, life, the universe and everything.
	www.houg.com /critiques/Mike_Nobel.html (679 words)

	Rocky Mountain News: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Born in 1937, Paxton got turned on to folk music listening to Burl Ives and the Weavers and surfaced as one of the original singer-songwriters during the vibrant Greenwich Village folk revival of the early 1960s.
		Paxton said there's a reason some of his topical songs stand the test of time.
		While the topical/political song genre is generally looked on as a 1960's phenomenon, Paxton insisted it's alive and well thanks to singer songwriters such as Steve Earle.
	rockymountainnews.com /drmn/music/article/0,1299,DRMN_54_4111220,00.html (905 words)

	Baltimore City Paper: ARTS Protest Music Heads Back to the Barricades
		A song cycle inspired by the crushing poverty and dust storms of the Depression era, Dust Bowl Ballads may be Guthrie's finest work.
		I asked why she was suddenly curious about this particular trio of topical song masters.
		Although the event was short on topical songs about the Tibetans, it drew international attention to their plight, and this smart, compelling film continues in the same spirit.
	www.citypaper.com /arts/story.asp?id=8320 (1061 words)

	Sunday March 30th Antisocial Hosted by Danny Kelly
		His song Overdog was a rather insightful look into the mindset of the elitists of this nation.
		His song lyrics tend to slide up on you and hit you in the back of the head moments later after utterance.
		They rocked hard and loud and every single song was about the current situation in Iraq or about war or about the current administration or ones related to it.
	www.antifolk.net /archive/fort5 (1211 words)

	mrtamb.html
		That quest was quite apparent in another of the songs he worked on during his journey, "Chimes of Freedom," its call for the abolition of repression not tethered to any specific political or social movement.
		It was too good a song to disappear, and Dylan incorporated it into his live set in mid-1964, suggesting he hadn't entirely abandoned intentions to eventually record it.
		He played it at, ironically, the topical song workshop at the 1964 Newport Folk Festival, and at a Halloween concert at the New York Philharmonic Hall that was recorded for a possible live album (which didn't come out, though it's often been bootlegged).
	www.richieunterberger.com /mrtamb.html (4273 words)

	Dear Mr. President (The Almanac Singers) (1942)
		Like their earlier songs of peace, labor songs were now passé.
		Heard nationwide on CBS on February 14, 1942, the show featured the Almanacs singing a rousing "Round and Round Hitler's Grave." The group was a sensation: Decca approached them about cutting an album.
		A bit behind the times, the Bureau had just discovered "Songs for John Doe," and decided the peace songs threatened wartime mobilization.
	www.woodyguthrie.de /prez.html (637 words)

	Guardian \| Songs of war
		James MacMillan, Nigel Osborne, Dominic Muldowney, Colin Matthews and Howard Skempton all agreed to write a topical song about something they might spot in the papers in the weeks or days before the concert.
		The courageous souls who have agreed to take on the challenge of learning these new songs so quickly (with the ink still wet) are two fine actor-singers, Jenny Galloway and Nick Holder.
		And therefore the turmoil that we're in now, I feel, cannot but impact in some way on someone like myself." His new song for the Almeida, Invocation, takes a step back from the immediately topical and reflects on man's capacity for both good and evil.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4719018-110760,00.html (1123 words)

	Nancy White Main Page - The Queen of the Topical Song - from Canada
		One of her best gigs this year was a comedy double bill in Toronto with possibly the most hilarious man on earth, Roger James.
		This year she also narrated a film about the founding of the CCF, sang (and wrote) several World War 1 songs for "The History Project" on CBC TV, and had a song ("Hockey Widow") included on a compilation cd called World¹s Best Hockey Songs.Vol.1.
		She recently wrote and taped a song called "Big Science" for the 42nd anniversary of "The Nature of Things", to be broadcast on CBC Nov.28.
	www.richardhess.com /nw (392 words)

	Hymnals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The All American Church Hymnal contains a collection of songs which have proven to be especially meaningful, resourceful and inspiring while representing the most beloved expressions of faith found in churches across the country.
		Compiled and edited by master songwriter and arranger John W. Peterson, Great Hymns of the Faith is a collection of lasting, classic hymns and is designed to meet the needs of congregations, choral groups and families with a strong appreciation for the traditions of the church.
		Hymns are arranged by topic, with generous cross-referencing for hymns with available alternate tunes, hymns with similar meter, or locations of the same hymn tune in an alternate key.
	www.baptistwholesalers.com /hymnals.htm (384 words)

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