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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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.