Results for “pacifism”

Songs

Pacifics (From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack “N.Y. Is Red Hot")

Digable Planets

Digable Planets turn a Sunday in New York into an extended meditation on rest, community, and creative replenishment, moving…

urban leisure and rest Black cultural inheritance (jazz, literature, hip-hop lineage) community and belonging

My Name Is Lisa Kalvelage

Ani DiFranco

A first-person testimony song in which a German-born woman recounts how the Nuremberg trials and her own interrogation by U.S.…

collective guilt and responsibility civil disobedience memory and inheritance

There Is a War

Leonard Cohen

Cohen catalogs a series of overlapping conflicts—class, gender, ideology, race—then collapses them into a single, inescapable…

conflict as universal condition complicity and denial domestic strife as political struggle

People Have the Power

Patti Smith

An anthem built from a dream-vision, in which the speaker imagines armies disbanding and deserts turning to gardens, then hands…

collective political power utopian vision vs. reality dream as prophecy

Trigger Hippie

Morcheeba

Trigger Hippie is a downtempo trip-hop track built around a deliberately fuzzy paradox — pacifist idealism ('hippie') fused with…

counterculture and its contradictions pacifism versus violence altered states/dissociation

Call to Arms

Sturgill Simpson

A blistering protest song wrapped in a lullaby's intent, addressed from a father to a son, that names the machinery of endless…

militarism and foreign policy loss of individual identity in institutions media saturation and distraction

Some Enchanted Evening

The Temptations

This is The Temptations' soul-vocal-group treatment of the Rodgers and Hammerstein standard from South Pacific, reframed with a…

fate and destiny in love carpe diem / seizing the moment fear of loneliness

Portland Water

Michael Hurley

A loose, talking-blues meditation on a specific Pacific Northwest place, built almost entirely around one repeated phone-call…

displacement and homesickness the body versus the soul settler history and erasure of indigenous presence