Comments on: Moulder in Peace, John Brown http://backstoryradio.org/2009/10/moulder-in-peace-john-brown/ VFH Radio at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:15:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Tony (BackStory Producer) http://backstoryradio.org/2009/10/moulder-in-peace-john-brown/comment-page-1/#comment-6599 Tony (BackStory Producer) Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:47:32 +0000 http://www.backstoryradio.org/?p=697#comment-6599 [quote comment="6584"]Who is singing the Battle Hymn that is featured in the show? It's gorgeous, and I'd love to buy it.[/quote] That would be the great Odetta. It is nice, isn't it?

Who is singing the Battle Hymn that is featured in the show? It’s gorgeous, and I’d love to buy it.

That would be the great Odetta. It is nice, isn’t it?

]]> By: Natasha http://backstoryradio.org/2009/10/moulder-in-peace-john-brown/comment-page-1/#comment-6584 Natasha Sun, 28 Feb 2010 03:22:13 +0000 http://www.backstoryradio.org/?p=697#comment-6584 Who is singing the Battle Hymn that is featured in the show? It's gorgeous, and I'd love to buy it. Who is singing the Battle Hymn that is featured in the show? It’s gorgeous, and I’d love to buy it.

]]> By: John Brown, Set to Music | Encyclopedia Virginia: The Blog http://backstoryradio.org/2009/10/moulder-in-peace-john-brown/comment-page-1/#comment-393 John Brown, Set to Music | Encyclopedia Virginia: The Blog Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:12:29 +0000 http://www.backstoryradio.org/?p=697#comment-393 [...] new podcast from the outgoing BackStory producer Rachel Quimby looks at the surprising origins of the song [...] [...] new podcast from the outgoing BackStory producer Rachel Quimby looks at the surprising origins of the song [...]

]]> By: Matt http://backstoryradio.org/2009/10/moulder-in-peace-john-brown/comment-page-1/#comment-392 Matt Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:52:40 +0000 http://www.backstoryradio.org/?p=697#comment-392 [quote comment="5649"]OMG, what a riot! i thought that song was just a hyper-militaristic Christian hymn sung by troops marching off to kill Jews and Muslims ("as He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free...") in their various Crusades and pogroms. Live and learn! BTW: You oughta tell those kids: It's not "Kicked her in the butt with a rotten coconut"; it's "Hit her on the bean with a rotten tangerine!" What's the matter with kids these days?![/quote] Anything you'd find in an American Protestant Hymnal would be less than 200 years old, the Contemporary Christian music of the day. It would not reflect the worship of medieval or ancient peoples. And btw, the Crusades were nothing more than a western barbarian invasion condoned by a papacy that had recently broken itself off from the rest of the Christian world, and killed just as many Christians as Muslims and Jews. It certainly did not represent the character of ancient, eastern Christianity, and has nothing to do with this Protestant hymn. Matt

OMG, what a riot! i thought that song was just a hyper-militaristic Christian hymn sung by troops marching off to kill Jews and Muslims (“as He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free…”) in their various Crusades and pogroms. Live and learn!
BTW: You oughta tell those kids: It’s not “Kicked her in the butt with a rotten coconut”; it’s “Hit her on the bean with a rotten tangerine!” What’s the matter with kids these days?!

Anything you’d find in an American Protestant Hymnal would be less than 200 years old, the Contemporary Christian music of the day. It would not reflect the worship of medieval or ancient peoples. And btw, the Crusades were nothing more than a western barbarian invasion condoned by a papacy that had recently broken itself off from the rest of the Christian world, and killed just as many Christians as Muslims and Jews. It certainly did not represent the character of ancient, eastern Christianity, and has nothing to do with this Protestant hymn.

Matt

]]> By: Spike http://backstoryradio.org/2009/10/moulder-in-peace-john-brown/comment-page-1/#comment-391 Spike Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:34:17 +0000 http://www.backstoryradio.org/?p=697#comment-391 What a mellifluous voice this narrator has - I could listen to her dulcet tones even if the content was not itself compelling. In this case, Ms. Quimby's resonant and charming voice only serves to emphasize the fascinating and strange tale of John Brown and the song that immortalized him. What a mellifluous voice this narrator has – I could listen to her dulcet tones even if the content was not itself compelling. In this case, Ms. Quimby’s resonant and charming voice only serves to emphasize the fascinating and strange tale of John Brown and the song that immortalized him.

]]> By: Herstory320 http://backstoryradio.org/2009/10/moulder-in-peace-john-brown/comment-page-1/#comment-390 Herstory320 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:31:26 +0000 http://www.backstoryradio.org/?p=697#comment-390 OMG, what a riot! i thought that song was just a hyper-militaristic Christian hymn sung by troops marching off to kill Jews and Muslims ("as He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free...") in their various Crusades and pogroms. Live and learn! BTW: You oughta tell those kids: It's not "Kicked her in the butt with a rotten coconut"; it's "Hit her on the bean with a rotten tangerine!" What's the matter with kids these days?! OMG, what a riot! i thought that song was just a hyper-militaristic Christian hymn sung by troops marching off to kill Jews and Muslims (“as He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free…”) in their various Crusades and pogroms. Live and learn!
BTW: You oughta tell those kids: It’s not “Kicked her in the butt with a rotten coconut”; it’s “Hit her on the bean with a rotten tangerine!” What’s the matter with kids these days?!

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