Archive for the ‘Music’ Category
Slania’s Song
May 22, 2013 Blog, Classical, Culture, Europe, History, MusicEluveitie was one of the bands I mentioned in my post on folk metal and again when I talked about the hurdy gurdy. They are a Swiss folk metal band whose songs are in the now-extinct language of Gaulish, since they …
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The Minstrel Boy
May 17, 2013 Blog, Culture, Europe, MusicWritten by Thomas Moore after the 1798 Irish Rebellion and set to an old Irish folk tune, “The Minstrel Boy” is a beautiful song that has followed the Irish wherever they settled across the world. It has gained a …
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Flow Gently, Sweet Afton
May 14, 2013 Blog, Culture, Europe, Music, PoetryWritten in 1791, the Scottish poet Robert Burns‘ beautifully peaceful poem Sweet Afton describes the Afton water which flows through Ayrshire in southwest Scotland near the small town of New Cumnock. The area holds a lot of significance to …
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Characteristics Inherent to the Occidental and Oriental Races: A Comparative Study
September 19, 2012 Asians, Child Raising, Culture, Current Events, Economics, Europeans, Family, Family Issues, Food, Foreign Policy, Genetics, Health, Ideology, Immigration, Law, Music, Politics, Popular Culture, Race, Schooling, The WestAs a white Afrikaner-Boer from South Africa, I always knew a move to South Korea would be difficult. I predicted there would be vast cultural differences between the background and heritage I come from and what I was to …
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Sunette Bridges
July 27, 2012 Blog, Culture, Current Events, Ideology, Music, Politics, South Africa and Rhodesia, The WestSunette Bridges is a South African music artist, the daughter of singing legend Bles Bridges, who once held a concert during the 1980s for the AWB’s People’s Help Scheme1 to raise money to feed the poorest of Afrikaners. She …
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Southern Heimat
July 5, 2012 Blog, Culture, History, Music, SouthernI recently discussed the concept of the German word Heimat, a word without a direct English equivalent, defined as the special sense of a person belonging to a specific place, time, culture, and community. The meaning is broader than “home,” …
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God Bless Larry the Cable Guy, Y’all: How Modern “Redneck” Culture Demeans and Inhibits Our People
June 26, 2012 America, Christianity, Culture, Europeans, Food, History, Music, Party Politics, Politics, Popular Culture, Race, Southern, War Between the StatesIt is a balmy November noon in one of the less fashionable trailer parks in Palestine, TX. On the front porch of a circa 1977 single wide trailer, a rusty screen door slams open, knocking over a mountain of …
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Music Review: Winglord
June 6, 2012 Art, Culture, Europeans, Music, The WestAnd when all hope was lost Deep down in the midst of our being A flame appeared, in the darkness A beacon of light, shining – in white Come! And let us once more fight – as one One …
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Dougie MacLean – Homeland
May 15, 2012 Blog, Culture, Europe, History, Modern, Music, Southern, The WestWritten by well known Scottish folk musician Dougie MacLean, Homeland is a song ridiculing the foreigners who have emigrated into his Scotland. The arrogant colonists sell their expensive city houses and move out into the Scottish countryside where they love …
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Mes Aïeux – Dégénération
October 12, 2011 Blog, Canada, Culture, History, Music, The WestThis song is an old favorite of mine. Sung by the popular French Quebec folk band Mes Aïeux (My Ancestors) it recounts the degeneration over the last five generations of Quebec’s traditional French Catholic culture into the rootless moral-less …
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