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Der American Dream in englischen Liedern

Von: , Frage gestellt am Do, 9. Jan 2003

Hallo allerseits!

Ich muss nun von der Schue aus meine Facharbeit schreiben. Ich habe das Fach Englisch gewählt und mich zu folgendem Thema entschlossen. Undzwar möchte ich ein paar englische Songs analysieren, bzw. die Texte, und vergleichen, wie dort der American Dream dargestellt oder mit einbearbeitet wird.

Zum Beispiel Lieder, wo über Einwanderer nach Amerika erzählt wird, ... usw.

Fallen Euch vielleicht ein paar Songs ein, die man für eine solche Thematik verwenden könnte?
Es sollten nicht unbedingt nur moderne Lieder sein, ein altes Volkslied aus Amerika vielleicht ... oder was weiss ich :)

Für jegliche Unterstützung bedanke ich mich sehr.

Viele Grüße,
Alexander.

9 Antworten zu dieser Frage

1. Antwort von nach 53 Minuten 0 hilfreich

   Re: Der American Dream in englischen Liedern

   Moin Alexander,
   
   auf Anhieb fällt mir da ein:
   
   The Green Fields of Canada (ich hab die Version von Deanta)
   Text steht z.B. hier: http://sniff.numachi.com/~rickheit/dtrad/pages/tiGRN...
   
   Wolfe Tones mit "Shores of America" oder "A dream of liberty"
   
   Dann natürlich aus der Westside Story: "I like to be in America"
   
   (hab grad keine Zeit mehr, dir die Texte zu suchen...)
   
   Meinst du sowas ?
   
   Gruss
   Marion
   

   • Antwort von nach einer Stunde 0 hilfreich

     Re^2: Der American Dream in englischen Liedern

     Hallo Marion,
     
     das Lied heißt "America" und hier ist der Text.
     
     ANITA
     Puerto Rico
     My heart's devotion
     Let it sink back in the ocean
     Always the hurricanes blowing
     Always the population growing
     And the money owing
     And the sunlight streaming
     And the natives steaming
     I like the island Manhattan
     Smoke on your pipe
     And put that in!
     
     GIRLS
     I like to be in America
     Okay by me in America
     Everything free in America
     
     BERNARDO
     For a small fee in America
     
     ANITA
     Buying on credit is so nice
     
     BERNARDO
     One look at us and they charge twice
     
     ROSALIA
     I'll have my own washing machine
     
     INDIO
     What will you have though to keep clean?
     
     ANITA
     Skyscrapers bloom in America
     
     ROSALIA
     Cadillacs zoom in America
     
     TERESITA
     Industry boom in America
     
     BOYS
     Twelve in a room in America
     
     ANITA
     Lots of new housing with more space
     
     BERNARDO
     Lots of doors slaming in our face
     
     ANITA
     I'll get a terrace apartment
     
     BERNARDO
     Better get rid of your accent
     
     ANITA
     Life can be bright in America
     
     BOYS
     If you can fight in America
     
     GIRLS
     Life is all right in America
     
     BOYS
     If you're all white in America
     
     GIRLS
     Here you are free and you have pride
     
     BOYS
     Long as you stay on your own side
     
     GIRLS
     Free to be anything you choose
     
     BOYS
     Free to wait tables and shine shoes
     
     BERNARDO
     Everywhere grime in America
     Organized crime in America
     Terrible time in America
     
     ANITA
     You forget I'm in America
     
     BERNARDO
     I think I'll go back to San Juan
     
     ANITA
     I know what boat you can get on
     
     BERNARDO
     Everyone there will give big cheers
     
     ANITA
     Everyone there will have moved here
     
     
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2. Antwort von nach 2 Stunden 0 hilfreich

   For the strangers land may be bright and fair...

   Hallo Alexander,
   
   es gibt einige irische Lieder über das "Gelobte Land" aus der Zeit der "Great Famine" (1845-1850), als tausende Irischer Emigranten vor der Hungersnot nach Amerika flüchteten, z.B. A Stor mo Chroi (Treasure of my Heart):
   
   A Stor mo Chroi, when you're far away,
   From the home that you'll soon be leaving -
   It's many a time, by night and by day,
   That you're heart will be sorely grieving -
   For the strangers land may be bright and fair,
   And rich in its treasures golden -
   You'll pine I know, for the long ago,
   And the love that is never olden -
   
   A Stor mo Chroi, in the strangers land,
   There is plenty of wealth and women -
   While gems adore, the great and grand,
   There are faces with hunger paling -
   The road it is dreary and hard to tread,
   And the lights of their cities blind you -
   Won't you turn a stor, to Erin's shore,
   And the love that you left behind you -
   
   A Stor mo Chroi, when the evening's sank,
   Over mountains and meadows falling -
   Won't you turn away, from the thronging mist,
   And maybe you'll her me calling -
   For the sound of a voice that is surely mine,
   For somebody's speedy returning -
   A-rown, mo-rown, won't you come back soon?
   To the one that will always love you -
   
   Eine moderne Fassung und Ausarbeitung des Themas gibt es von Luka Bloom ("Forgiveness"):
   http://home.knuut.de/e_r_bergholz/lbloom/lyrics/98fo...
   
   Mehr über die Iren im Amerika des 19. Jh. erfährst Du hier:
   
   http://www.kinsella.org/history/histira.htm
   
   Viele Grüße
   Diana
   

3. Antwort von nach 10 Stunden 0 hilfreich

   Re: Der American Dream in englischen Liedern

   Wir lernten in der Schule "Clementine", das ist wohl ein amerikanischer Folksong.
   
   Siehe auch:
   http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~YW4Y-OOb/e-folk.html
   
   Gruß,
   
   Sabine [Bei dieser Antwort wurde das Vollzitat nachträglich automatisiert entfernt]
   

4. Antwort von nach 21 Stunden 0 hilfreich

   Re: Der American Dream in englischen Liedern

   Hallo Alexander,
   
   ein Musterbeispiel ist da zweifellos "America" von Neil Diamond.
   
   Hier der Text:
   __________________________________
   AMERICA
   Written by Neil Diamond
   Far
   We've been traveling far
   Without a home
   But not without a star
   Free
   Only want to be free
   We huddle close
   Hang on to a dream
   
   On the boats and on the planes
   They're coming to America
   Never looking back again
   They're coming to America
   
   Home, don't it seem so far away
   Oh, we're traveling light today
   In the eye of the storm
   In the eye of the storm
   
   Home, to a new and a shiny place
   Make our bed, and we'll say our grace
   Freedom's light burning warm
   Freedom's light burning warm
   
   Everywhere around the world
   They're coming to America
   Every time that flag's unfurled
   They're coming to America
   
   Got a dream to take them there
   They're coming to America
   Got a dream they've come to share
   They're coming to America
   
   They're coming to America
   They're coming to America
   They're coming to America
   They're coming to America
   Today, today, today, today, today
   
   My country 'tis of thee
   Today
   Sweet land of liberty
   Today
   Of thee I sing
   Today
   Of thee I sing
   Today
   
   
   1980 Stonebridge Music (ASCAP)
   ____________________________________
   
   
   Viel Glück für die Facharbeit!
   "Raven"
   (die das Gott sei Dank schon hinter sich hat, *gg*)
   

5. Antwort von nach 23 Stunden 0 hilfreich

   Re: Der American Dream in englischen Liedern

   Hallo, Alexander,
   zwar kein Liedtext, aber hier auf Deutsch der Text von noch einem, der einen "American Dream" hatte. http://www.heiligenlexikon.de/index.htm?Literatur/ML...
   Nur zu schade, dass noch immer viel zu viele Amerikaner ihre Version des amerikanischen Traumes - Home of the free zu sein, die Inkarnation der Liberalität und der Bürgerrechte - mit der Realität verwechseln, die sich mittlerweile doch in ein ziemliches Zerrbild dessen verwandelt hat, was ursprünglich unter diesem Ideal verstanden wurde.
   Gods own Country? Gott sei bei uns!
   Grüße
   Eckard
   

   • Antwort von nach einem Tag 0 hilfreich

     The way the West was won...

     Hi Eckard & Alexander,
     
     nur zu schade, dass noch immer viel zu viele Amerikaner ihre Version des amerikanischen Traumes - Home of the free zu sein, die Inkarnation der Liberalität und der Bürgerrechte - mit der Realität verwechseln, die sich mittlerweile doch in ein ziemliches Zerrbild dessen verwandelt hat, was ursprünglich unter diesem Ideal verstanden wurde.
     
     dazu äußert sich Joe Jackson (1986)
     
     Wild West
     
     Out to the west there's a trail that leads somewhere
     And a call of the wild that takes some people there
     Through Monument Valley to California sun
     From New Amsterdam to the way the West was won
     
     Well years will go by when you won't get nowhere
     You're cold and you're tired and you're free and you don't care
     
     You keep pushin' on when your friends keep turning back
     You keep building towns and laying railroad track
     And things get crazy and you have to use that gun
     And you wonder if this is the way the West is won
     
     But keep thinkin' that way and you won't get nowhere
     'Cause you got a right just to get where you're goin' to
     Gotta keep runnin' gotta be the best
     Gotta walk tall in the Wild West
     
     You keep on the move or you try to settle down
     And there's strangers from further and further away in town
     And you give them some tools and they know what must be done
     And you know the West was won
     
     And they say . . .
     Where I come from, you can't get nowhere
     I'm breaking my back for some opportunity
     Making my fortune and I'll take it all home
     Tell my kids about the Wild West
     
     And there's still beauty as the flowers bloom on desert sands
     And there's still hope as the sun rises over the Rio Grande
     But it's so crowded now and nothing's simple anymore
     And they're still knocking at your door
     
     You hear guns in the night and you hope they're not for you
     'Cause a dog eats a dog then he eats his master too
     In the land of the free and the not so often brave
     There's both love or money now choose which you will save
     
     But . . . keep thinkin' that way and you won't get nowhere
     'Cause you got a right just to get where you're goin' to
     Gotta keep runnin' gotta be the best
     Gotta walk tall in the Wild West
     
     *****************************************************************
     
     Viele Grüße
     Diana
     

6. Antwort von nach einem Tag 0 hilfreich

   Re: Der American Dream in englischen Liedern

   Servus Alexander !
   
   Vielleicht hilft das ja weiter:
   
   Simon & Garfunkel
   AMERICA
   
   'Let us be lovers we'll marry our fortunes together'
   'I've got some real estate here in my bag'
   So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner pies
   And we walked off to look for America
   'Kathy,' I said as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh
   'Michigan seems like a dream to me now'
   It took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw
   I've gone to look for America
   
   Laughing on the bus
   Playing games with the faces
   She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy
   I said 'Be careful his bowtie is really a camera'
   
   'Toss me a cigarette, I think there's one in my raincoat'
   'We smoked the last one an hour ago'
   So I looked at the scenery, she read her magazine
   And the moon rose over an open field
   
   'Kathy, I'm lost,' I said, though I knew she was sleeping
   I'm empty and aching and I don't know why
   Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike
   They've all gone to look for America
   All gone to look for America
   All gone to look for America
   __________________________________________
   
   oder das
   
   Simon & Garfunkel
   AMERICAN TUNE (mit der von Bach geklauten Musik)
   
   Many's the time I've been mistaken
   And many times confused
   Yes, and often felt forsaken
   And certainly misused
   Oh, but I'm alright, I'm alright
   I'm just weary to my bones
   Still, you don't expect to be
   Bright and bon vivant
   So far a-way from home, so far away from home
   
   I don't know a soul who's not been battered
   I don't have a friend who feels at ease
   I don't know a dream that's not been shattered
   or driven to its knees
   Oh, but it's alright, it's alright
   for we lived so well so long
   Still, when I think of the
   road we're traveling on
   I wonder what's gone wrong
   I can't help it, I wonder what's gone wrong
   
   And I dreamed I was dying
   I dreamed that my soul rose unexpectedly
   And looking back down at me
   Smiled reassuringly
   And I dreamed I was flying
   And high up above my eyes could clearly see
   The Statue of Liberty
   Sailing away to sea
   And I dreamed I was flying
   
   We come on the ship they call the Mayflower
   We come on the ship that sailed the moon
   We come in the a-ge's most uncertain hours
   and sing an American tune
   Oh, and it's alright, it's alright, it's alright
   You can't be forever blessed
   Still, tomorrow's going to be another working day
   And I'm trying to get some rest
   That's all I'm trying to get some rest
   _____________________________________________
   
   Grüße aus Wien
   Helmut
   

7. Antwort von nach 3 Tagen 0 hilfreich

   Vielen Dank ...

   Hallo sehr geehrte Antworter !
   
   Da is ja schon einiges beisammengekommen. Aus Zeitgründen hab ich die Texte erstmal nur grob überfliegen können. Aber ich denke dass ihr mir damit schon einige gute möglichkeiten für eine Grundlage meiner Arbeit geboten habt.
   
   Vielleicht kommt ja nocht mehr.
   
   Nochmals besten Dank,
   Ali.
   

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