![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Entry tags:
[Song a Day] Transformative Week | The Gregory Brothers - Lift Up Your Hearts
Part of the Song a Day Project! Also part of Transformative Songs Week in honour of the OTW March Drive.
Oratory well done has a cadence and rhythm that makes it beautiful and compelling — musical. The strong musical and lyrical flow of good oratory is one of the ways it appeals to us and moves us.
And then someone takes a speech and transforms it into something... more. There are other instances of this practice, but today I want to show one of my favourites: Winston Churchill's Great Declaration in 1941 (one fine, fine piece of rhetoric) backed by a few wayward time travellers. As with the Disney-derived techno remix I started this week is, I love the unexpected quality of it, strongly contextualizing a piece of our cultural history in the present.
Youtube Link: The Gregory Brothers - Lift Up Your Hearts.
Lift up your hearts
All will come right
Out of the depths
Of sorrow and of sacrifice
Will be born again the glory of mankind
When we interact with our culture and cultural output in transformative ways, we transform the source, we transform ourselves, and we transform our culture. And we get Winston Churchill with time travelling musicians.
And this is another reason I support the OTW.
Oratory well done has a cadence and rhythm that makes it beautiful and compelling — musical. The strong musical and lyrical flow of good oratory is one of the ways it appeals to us and moves us.
And then someone takes a speech and transforms it into something... more. There are other instances of this practice, but today I want to show one of my favourites: Winston Churchill's Great Declaration in 1941 (one fine, fine piece of rhetoric) backed by a few wayward time travellers. As with the Disney-derived techno remix I started this week is, I love the unexpected quality of it, strongly contextualizing a piece of our cultural history in the present.
Youtube Link: The Gregory Brothers - Lift Up Your Hearts.
Lift up your hearts
All will come right
Out of the depths
Of sorrow and of sacrifice
Will be born again the glory of mankind
The Gregory Brothers - Lift Up Your Hearts
Lift up your hearts
All will come right
Out of the depths
Of sorrow and of sacrifice
Will be born again the glory of mankind
This is the message
To all the states and nations
Bound or free
We cannot yet see
How deliverance will come
Or when it will come
But nothing is more certain
Than that every trace of Hitler's footsteps
Every stain of his infected and corroding fingers
Will be sponged
And purged
And, if need be, blasted (oh yeah)
From the surface of the earth (surface of the earth)
This, then
My lords and gentlemen
Is the message that we send forth today
Lift up your hearts
All will come right
Out of the depths
Of sorrow and of sacrifice
Will be born again the glory of mankind
This is the message
To all the states and nations
Bound or free
Lift up your hearts
All will come right
Out of the depths
Of sorrow and of sacrifice
Will be born again the glory of mankind
This is the message
To all the states and nations
Bound or free
When we interact with our culture and cultural output in transformative ways, we transform the source, we transform ourselves, and we transform our culture. And we get Winston Churchill with time travelling musicians.
And this is another reason I support the OTW.