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Deven Black

Civil War Poetry And Music - zZounds.com - 5 views

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    "Millions of Americans fought and died during the Civil War, and the legacy of the Civil War remains in the poetry and music left behind. Music was used extensively during the Civil War as a means of inspiring loyalty among the troops, and as a source of inspiration and motivation during marching. Poetry was written to encourage unity, to document the experiences of soldiers, and to share women's place in the war. Bands on both sides would frequently borrow songs and lyrics from the other side, using them as parodies. One such tune was "Dixie", though the song was created some period of time before the Civil War, it gained in popularity during this time. "Dixie" originally tells the story of a freed black slave yearning to return home to the simple life of the plantation, both the North and South however, created their own wartime versions. "The Battle Cry of Freedom" and "Home Sweet Home" also featured both Union and Confederate versions. "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and "The Southern Cross," were poems that were later set to music."
Ed Webb

Culture Evolves Slowly, Falls Apart Quickly | Wired Science | Wired.com - 8 views

  • “just as evolutionary biologists use phylogenetic trees constructed using genetic data to test evolutionary hypotheses, anthropologists have recently begun to use cultural phylogenetics to test hypotheses about human social and cultural evolution,”
  • Political complexity indeed grew slowly, bit by bit, with no sudden jumps from bands to chiefdoms or tribes to states. “Political evolution, like biological evolution, tends to proceed through small steps rather than through major jumps in ‘design space,’” wrote Mace and Currie. However, purely forward-marching models didn’t fit the data. There was evidence of societies marching backwards as well, and this didn’t follow the same step-by-step path. Societies could collapse.
Eduardo Medeiros

Veja como a midia brasileira assumiu o discurso da extrema direita - 0 views

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    Acabo de assistir na Globo News comentários sobre o atentado da Noruega, uma repórter disse que "os partidos de extrema-direita se aproveitam da liberdade de imprensa européia para pregar seu discurso de ódio". Ora, mas quanta hipocrisia! e por acaso é apenas na Europa que os meios de comunicação dão espaço para a Direita raivosa? Coloco os vídeos abaixo para mostrar como a mídia nacional deu repercussão às idéias absurdas da extrema-direita brasileira. Tapem o nariz ao ver.
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