A blog about world and global music from a guy who co-hosts the KUNM Global Music Show, 89.9 FM Albuquerque/Santa Fe, http://www.kunm.org. I post one song a day, with reflections on the music, life, and whatever else comes into my mind.
Saturday, November 14, 2015
For Paris: "La Marseillaise" from the movie Casablanca
We don't have much to offer to Paris except symbolism, and I'm (Mike) sure that this has been put up in other places, but a very moving moment in the movie Casablanca comes to mind. The setup: the Nazis control France. In Morocco, the French Vichy government (a puppet government of the Nazis) controls the colony, and Nazi soldiers mix with French officials, people seeking a way out of Europe, collaborators and partisan fighters trying to overthrow the Nazis. In this scene, the Nazi soldiers start singing a nationalistic song...only to be effectively countered by the French national anthem, the Marseillaise. The point I'm trying to make is the French have the fortitude and the strength befitting a civilized nation to overcome oppression, terrorism and barbarism and, with their allies, will prevail over this darkness.
Labels:
Casablanca,
France,
global,
grief,
KUNM,
Marseillaise,
massacre,
Megan Kamerick,
Michael Hess,
music,
Paris,
radio,
tragedy,
world
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