tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4565845984512808077.post5236534982429181292..comments2024-03-19T21:41:42.835+01:00Comments on Poemas del río Wang: Comrade, Life Does Not Have to be So GrayStudiolumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06377777909296284368noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4565845984512808077.post-11902700812372837502013-07-19T22:49:45.254+02:002013-07-19T22:49:45.254+02:00"Ever Higher!" ... 1926
Very convincingl...<i>"Ever Higher!" ... 1926</i><br />Very convincingly this song, a.k.a. The Aviamarch <a href="http://www.vilavi.ru/pes/aviamarsh/marsh2b.shtml" rel="nofollow">dated to 1923</a>, with the roots perhaps as early as in the 1920 Polish occupation of Kiev (and often thought to originated from a dance tune of a Warsaw cabaret, where the dancers' legs were rising higher, and higher, and higher.<br /><br />Apparently the Aviamarch is very unpalatable in Western Europe, where its motif is better recalled as a Nazi propaganda song, <i>Das Berliner Jungarbeiterlied</i> (apparently still performed, after a minor text clean-up, by the neo-Nazi crooners) (more details <a href="http://www.vilavi.ru/pes/150306/150306.shtml" rel="nofollow">at the same website</a> which has many other "dissolving music" stories very much in the mold of rio Wang)<br /><br /><i>Street urchine turned socialist</i> is a real theme of my family thread; great-grandfather Wolf Pruss went to Russia, and succeeded, in exactly this sort of undertaking: turning street children into highly qualified watchmakers.<br /><br />... and lastly, you didn't receive my email about Aviamarch, and also Prague, did you?MOCKBAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05150628026789690963noreply@blogger.com