Souls lost during WWII – ”I’ll Be Seeing You” 26 juni, 201726 juni, 2017Birgitta Comment I thought Billies version of ”I’ll Be Seeing You” would be a honorable soundtrack to this post about how many lifes we lost [...]
A way forward – the green economy 20 juni, 20174 juli, 2017Birgitta Comment Our current living style and consumption is on a coalition course with a stable world. Here’s some of what you can do. [...]
Swedish music and Sweden during WWII 19 juni, 2017Birgitta Comment Swedens neutrality can be argued therefor it might not bet that strange that a song named ”My Soldier” or in Swedish ”Min soldat” was [...]
Polish music and uprising during WWII 17 juni, 2017Birgitta Comment This song translates to ”Axe, Hoe” and was a famous Polish military and street-level protest song from the war. It became the most [...]
Zarah Leander, Novgorod and White Roses in Germany 15 juni, 201717 juni, 2017Birgitta Comment For this part of my series on music during World War II I’m mostly staying in Germany, but it’ll include a little bit [...]
Allied music during WWII 15 juni, 201715 juni, 2017Birgitta Comment Compered to the music from World War I many World War II songs focused more on romance and strength instead of propaganda, morale, [...]
Japan and japanese music during WWII 14 juni, 201715 juni, 2017Birgitta Comment In Japan the musical genre of ”ryūkōka” had been popular since the 20’s. It was influenced by western music, however after 1936 war [...]
French music during WWII 14 juni, 201714 juni, 2017Birgitta Comment It took only six weeks for France to capitulate to the German invaders, which was a stunning defeat. The occupation of France is a [...]
Danish music during WWII 14 juni, 201714 juni, 2017Birgitta 2 The occupation of Denmark began in the middle of the danish golden jazz era. The Germans came on the 9th of April 1940 and [...]
Atheism and intelligent life 13 juni, 201713 juni, 2017Birgitta Comment Last night in a periscope, while talking about religion I came out as the atheist I am. Perhaps a bit sloppy I wrote; [...]