A Joyful Noise

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Continuing on the "awesome bits of music" theme, I'll raise you this a capella duet from Holly Near and Ronnie Gilbert. If you can watch/listen to this without getting goose-pimples, I'll be surprised. It almost always brings tears to my eyes.

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[sartorias.livejournal.com]

That. Was. Astonishing.

[intertext.livejournal.com]

hee. Gotcha! Isn't it amazing?

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

What got me was the intensity of their singing, and then that wonderful, flashing smile from the older lady at the end. Wow.

[countrygardener.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much. For a few brief days in 1972 I walked through Allende's Chile and fell hopelessly in love with that country, a land of impossible opposites, a schizophrenic contrast of up and down, old and new, rich and poor. When the coup occured not too many months later I felt a grief unlike any other I have experienced (except when Dad died).

I heard this song on the radio awhile back but the DJ never identified it. It makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck.

[lidocafe.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting that. I had forgotten how much I admire Holly Near--haven't listened for ages.

When I was researching my war lit class, I spent a fair bit of time looking at works about the horror of the disappeared, in Chile and Argentina especially, and that all came back to me recently when I was reading Nathan Englander's Ministry of Special Cases. A cloud of immeasurable sorrow pierced here and there with hope and courage, like this song.