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13 TED Talks with music from around the world

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Take a trip around the globe and enjoy music from some of the farthest corners of the Earth.

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Barry McGuire

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Rhiannon Giddens: Songs that bring history to life

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Rhiannon Giddens pours the emotional weight of American history into her music. Listen as she performs traditional folk ballads -- including "Waterboy," "Up Above My Head," and "Lonesome Road" by Sister Rosetta Tharp -- and one glorious original song, "Come Love Come," inspired by Civil War-era slave narratives.

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Phil Ochs - 1969

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The Late, Great Phil Ochs(folk/social commentary singer)1940-1976 did more for Peace than any soldier ever did for war!

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An article from The Independent, September 6th, 2017

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In August 1945, Europe was still smouldering from the effects of years of total war on its continent, when the United States Air Force dropped atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. Over 100,000 residents in those two cities were incinerated immediately by the power of each atomic blast. In the months that followed those atomic attacks, tens of thousands more would die horrifying deaths from radiation sickness.

When those nuclear bombs fell on Japan and evaporated people into shadows that stained the sides of shattered buildings as if their souls had been turned into charcoal stencil drawings, I was 22 years old and part of the allied occupation army stationed in Hamburg. It was a city that had seen more than its fair share of ruin, because it was estimated that 50,000 of its inhabitants had been extinguished by conventional aerial warfare during the battle against Hitler. But I remember that the news of the creation and use of the atomic bomb alarmed me.

I'd seen what ordinary bombs could do to a city and so realised that there was no escape for anyone if this new type of weapon of mass destruction were to be used ever again. However, I was also calmed by the fact that, at the conclusion of the Second World War, all across the democratic world governments were paying out the dividends of peace to their citizens by building just societies held firmly together with a social safety network, fair wages and a proper taxation policy.

So, although I was concerned that nuclear war might be imminent during the Berlin airlift crisis of 1948 because the Soviet Union and America were at loggerheads over control of Germany's former capital - or when the Cuban Missile Crisis erupted in 1962, which again saw the two superpowers in a deadly game of geopolitical poker - I reasoned that coolers would prevail. I had a feeling the carnage caused by the conflict against Hitler was still too fresh a scar on the souls of both the leaders of the western world, their citizens and their counterparts in the Soviet bloc for the Cold War to erupt into nuclear armaggedon.

Now, however, in 2017, the collective memories of the Great Depression, the Second World War, the Holocaust, the refugee crisis of 1945, as well as the joy of a peace that created a functioning welfare state, have dimmed and sputtered like candles on the dining room table at midnight.

Moreover, our present era is ripe for war, because we don't live in a time of progress but in one of economic and social oppression. A fetid cancer of greed and corruption has allowed the 1 per cent of society to smother the rights of the 99 per cent to a decent as well as a meaningful life. History should teach us that this type of inequality can only exist for so long before it upends society and chaos ensues.

This is why I am fearful that in 2017, we are closer to world war than we have been since September 1939 or August 1914. Like then, we seem to be under the sway of leaders who are autocratic, dictatorial and unwilling to find a peaceful means to satiate their lust for wealth or unmitigated power.

Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping of China, Kim Jung-un of North Korea or the lesser players like Theresa May in this deadly real Game of Thrones: all seem to possess an inability to empathise with the suffering of their lesser citizens.

Too many of our leaders in government or in business today seem to possess the sociopthatic traits that made Tsar Nicholas 2 nd of Russia, Hitler, Mussolini or Mao destructive leaders for their people. Yet we idiolise our oligarchs of business for their ruthlessness and emulate them, which is why Donald Trump has been an admired icon for conspicuous consumption since the 1980s.

I am an old man in the apogee of my days and that's why I know we are on the cusp of war - if not in North Korea then somewhere else - simply because we are letting the greed and the self-interest of the few lead the many into the cul-de-sac of war. It doesn't take a prophet to know that as long as Britain, America, Canada, China or Russia profit handsomely from the arms industry while ignoring the refugee crisis, the housing crisis, the wage crisis and the crisis for affordable health care, the world is sitting on a powder keg whose fuse has already been lit and is burning down quick.

Make no mistake: the only check and balance that will control Donald Trump's urge to ignite the world into war through his grotesque arrogance and incompetence is impeachment.

As a young man in uniform during the Second World War, I witnessed the destruction of entire cities across Europe from conventional warfare that left millions dead, injured or traumatised for life.

Now I am 94 and I don't want my remaining time on this earth to be one where I watch impotently as the world propels itself off the ledge of civilisation and into the abyss of total and irrevocable nuclear war. That's why I urge everyone who wants a peaceful and prosperous future to protest and fight against the dying of the light. We all owe it to the generations not yet born.
'Don't Let My Past Be Your Future' by Harry Leslie Smith is published by Little, Brown on 14th September (£14.99 in hardback)
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I'm 94 years old, I fought in the Second World War and I have a serious warning about where 2017 is headed

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In August 1945, Europe was still smouldering from the effects of years of total war on its continent, when the United States Air Force dropped atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. Over 100,000 residents in those two cities were incinerated immediately by the power of each atomic blast.

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YouTube channel (open in YouTube)

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history "history channel" documentary footage "great war" "first world war" "world war i (military conflict)" wwi "20th century" "1914 to 1918" "british path...

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The Great War covers the First World War from 1914 to 1923 - in real time. Every other week, Jesse Alexander cover the important events that influenced the world 100 years ago. Form 2014 - 2018, Indiana Neidell followed the main events of what is classically considered as World War 1 on a weekly basis.

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A historical overview of war and art (CC) 6'16''

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Capturing the Horrors - The Art of World War 1 I THE GREAT WAR Special

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A song inspired by his grandfather's death in WWI + info

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World War One - Song - William Jones - Ogart Sllim

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William Jones, written & performed by Ogart Sllim. Broadcast for educational purposes only. Footage courtesy of the Imperial War Museums (IWM). Outro Music from the TwinSpin Trunk. Produced by TwinSpin Education in Remembrance of the fallen. Artwork by Ian Gibson.

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With God On Our Side {Live at Town Hall 1963} (23/25) - Elston Gunn

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Lyrics: Oh my name it is nothin' My age it means less The country I come from Is called the Midwest I's taught and brought up there The laws to abide And that the land that I live in Has God on its side Oh the history books tell it

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Bio and With God on Our Side

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THE WAR PRAYER by Mark Twain (from the audiobook, CLASSIC TALES OF HOPE AND COURAGE)

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http://classic-tales.net This track appears on CLASSIC TALES OF HOPE AND COURAGE: http://amzn.to/1nkKwUy Listen to more classic short stories and poems at http://classic-tales.net All World War I images in this video come from the Library of Congress. Narration and music by Daniel H. Vimont.

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Discorso per la vittoria
"For this victory we join in offering our thanks to the Providence, which has guided and sustained us through the dark days..."

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Individuals at the Three Pillars Senior Living Home were interviewed for the purpose of gaining knowledge about experiences with music throughout the 1940's.

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Individuals at the Three Pillars Senior Living Home were interviewed for the purpose of gaining knowledge about experiences with music throughout the 1940's.

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A documentary feature and music release highlighting Porteous' solo journey across Europe as he followed the footsteps of soldiers who fought during World War Two. For 35 days, Porteous visited battlefields and cemeteries, interviewing veterans and survivors that he met along the way. He also carried a guitar and wrote/record music based on his experiences.

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War Music : WWII documentary : a david porteous film

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Musicians around the world (CC)

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War/No More Trouble feat. Bono | Playing for Change | Song Around The World