Archive for the ‘Music’ Category
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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Stand Today
August 4, 2011 Blog, Culture, Ethnonationalism, Europeans, Music, The WestRoger Drawdy and The Firestarters is an Irish band who play traditional Irish music and Celtic rock. I own a number of their albums and below is one of my favorite songs that they play. Although the song touches …
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The Importance of Folklore in a Nation’s Culture
July 3, 2011 Child Raising, Culture, Europeans, Family, History, Music, Poetry, South Africa and Rhodesia, Tales, The WestThe ingredients which I regard as being the most crucial to the existence of any ethnic group would probably be lineage, history, geography, beliefs, language, sense of humor, customs, and folklore. Folklore, however, is one of the aspects most …
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Hurdy Gurdy
June 19, 2011 Blog, Culture, Europe, History, Medieval, MusicThe hurdy gurdy is a traditional European musical instrument. The earliest forms of the hurdy gurdy were in existence at least as early as the 10th century in the Byzantine Empire and by the end of the Renaissance it …
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Folk Metal
May 30, 2011 Culture, Europeans, History, MusicThis is in response to a question left on my previous blog post regarding folk metal. Folk metal, also popularly known as viking metal due to the wide usage of Norse mythology within the genre, is a genre …
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Miri It Is
May 28, 2011 Blog, Culture, Medieval, Music, PoetryThe poem Miri It Is is one of the oldest surviving examples of Middle English. While Old English is distinctly Germanic and almost completely indecipherable to a speaker of Modern English, Middle English, while still difficult to understand, is …
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Celtic Woman
May 23, 2011 Blog, Culture, MusicI had the pleasure of attending a Celtic Woman concert when their tour came through Texas this past week. It was both a refreshing look at the cultural greatness of our European heritage and a welcome reminder that there …
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In Our Own Image
March 14, 2011 Blog, Christianity, Europeans, False Religions, Music, Tales“Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness….. So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.” -Genesis 1:26-27 ESV Since …
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