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Teure Heimat
''Teure Heimat'' () is a Pop music, pop/Rock music, rock album by the Austrian band Schürzenjäger, Zillertaler Schürzenjäger. It was released in 1992 by Ariola Records, BMG Ariola Media GmbH. Track listing #"Teure Heimat" ("Dear Homeland") — 2:59 #"Flensburg" — 2:40 #"Einfach du" ("Simply You") — 3:00 #"Großer Manitou" ("Great Gitche Manitou, Manitou") — 5:03 #"Donnaiolo" — 2:51 #"Willkommen Europa" ("Welcome, Europe") — 2:54 #"Alle Sirenen gingen los" ("All Sirens Came On") — 4:36 #"Im Bergwind Adler spielen" ("To Play Eagle in the Mountain Wind") — 3:15 #"Davon könnt i leb'n" ("I Could Live From That") — 3:23 #"I pfeif auf di" — 2:59 #"Die Bajuwaren" ("The Bavarii") — 2:59 #"Highway Crew" — 2:49 Track notes "Teure Heimat" can stand for either ''Dear'' homeland or ''Expensive'' homeland in the meaning of high taxes etc. Both meanings are mentioned in this song. "Flensburg" describes the loss of the driver's license. The German national database of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schürzenjäger
Die Schürzenjäger, originally named Die Zillertaler Schürzenjäger, was a volksmusik band from Tirol, Austria. Initially playing traditional volkmusik with yodeling and instruments such as the accordion, the band originally consisted of vocalist Peter Steinlechner, bassist Alfred Eberharter and guitarist Willi Kröll. Drummer Patrick Cox joined the band in 1989 alongside electric guitarist Günter Haag in 1992, shifting the band's musical style towards Rock music, rock, Pop music, pop, Schlager music, schlager, and blues. In 1996, the band removed "Zillertaler" from its name and began to acquire greater success internationally with chart placements for their albums, such as ''Träume Sind Stärker'' and ''Homo Erectus''. The band started recording with Tyrolis Music, a record label specialized in regional music, receiving commercial success with their 1987 album, ''Sierra Madre''. It left Tyrolis Music after releasing their last album with the label, ''Zillertaler Hochzeitsblue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pop Music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom.S. Frith, W. Straw, and J. Street, eds, ''iarchive:cambridgecompani00frit, The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), , pp. 95–105. During the 1950s and 1960s, pop music encompassed rock and roll and the youth-oriented styles it influenced. ''Rock music, Rock'' and ''pop'' music remained roughly synonymous until the late 1960s, after which ''pop'' became associated with music that was more commercial, wikt:ephemeral, ephemeral, and accessible. Identifying factors of pop music usually include repeated choruses and Hook (music), hooks, short to medium-length songs written in a basic format (often the verse–chorus form, verse–chorus structure), and rhythms or tempos that can be easily danced to. Much of pop music also borrows elements from other styles such as rock, hip hop, urban contemporary, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rock Music
Rock is a Music genre, genre of popular music that originated in the United States as "rock and roll" in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of styles from the mid-1960s, primarily in the United States and the United Kingdom. It has its roots in rock and roll, a style that drew from the black musical genres of blues and rhythm and blues, as well as from country music. Rock also drew strongly from genres such as electric blues and folk music, folk, and incorporated influences from jazz and other styles. Rock is typically centered on the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar, drum kit, drums, and one or more singers. Usually, rock is song-based music with a Time signature, time signature and using a verse–chorus form; however, the genre has become extremely diverse. Like pop music, lyrics often stress romantic love but also address a wide variety of other themes that are frequently social or political. Rock was the most p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volksmusik
Alpine folk music (; German's ''Volksmusik'' means "people's music" or as a Germanic connotative translation, "folk's music") is the common umbrella designation of a number of related styles of traditional folk music in the Alpine regions of Slovenia, Northern Croatia, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and South Tyrol (Italy). It tends to be dialect-heavy and invokes local and regional lifestyles, cultures and traditions, particularly, those of the Alpine farmers and peasants. Originally transmitted by oral tradition Oral tradition, or oral lore, is a form of human communication in which knowledge, art, ideas and culture are received, preserved, and transmitted orally from one generation to another.Jan Vansina, Vansina, Jan: ''Oral Tradition as History'' (19 ..., the oldest historical records like the Appenzell ''Ranz des Vaches, Kuhreihen'' by Georg Rhau (1488–1548) date back to the 16th century. Alpine folk is characterized by Musical improvisation, improvisation and Var ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ariola Records
Ariola (also known as Ariola Records, Ariola Express, Ariola-Eurodisc and BMG Ariola) is a German record label. In the late 1980s, it was a subsidiary label of the Bertelsmann Music Group, which in turn has become a part of the international media conglomerate Sony Music Entertainment. Profile Ariola Eurodisc GmbH was founded in 1958 as a music outlet of Bertelsmann. It set up several foreign subsidiaries. Leveraging acquisitions by its parent company, Ariola positioned itself to become a strong contender in the German record industry in the mid-1960s. Ariola America was founded in 1975 in Los Angeles, and achieved ''Billboard'' magazine number one singles with Mary MacGregor's " Torn Between Two Lovers" (1976) and Amii Stewart's cover version of the 1966 Eddie Floyd hit " Knock on Wood" (1979). Other artists on the Ariola America roster during the late 1970s included Gene Cotton, The Three Degrees, Chanson, and the Canadian band Prism among others. After its pop succe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austria
Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Austria, most populous city and state. Austria is bordered by Germany to the northwest, the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia to the northeast, Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The country occupies an area of and has Austrians, a population of around 9 million. The area of today's Austria has been inhabited since at least the Paleolithic, Paleolithic period. Around 400 BC, it was inhabited by the Celts and then annexed by the Roman Empire, Romans in the late 1st century BC. Christianization in the region began in the 4th and 5th centuries, during the late Western Roman Empire, Roman period, followed by the arrival of numerous Germanic tribes during the Migration Period. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flensburg
Flensburg (; Danish language, Danish and ; ; ) is an independent city, independent town in the far north of the Germany, German state of Schleswig-Holstein. After Kiel and Lübeck, it is the third-largest city in Schleswig-Holstein. Flensburg's city centre lies about from the Denmark, Danish border. Known for In Germany, Flensburg is known for: * the Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt (roughly: National Driver and Vehicle Register) with its ''Verkehrssünderkartei'' (literally: "traffic sinner card file"), where details of traffic offences are stored * its beer ''Flensburger Brauerei, Flensburger Pilsener'', also called "''Flens''" * the centre of the Danish minority of Southern Schleswig, Danish national minority in Germany * the greeting ''moin'' * the large erotic mail-order companies ''Beate Uhse AG, Beate Uhse'' and ''Orion'' * its handball team, SG Flensburg-Handewitt * the Naval Academy at Mürwik * being the final seat of the Nazi Germany, Third Reich from 1 May 1945, following Adol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gitche Manitou
Gitche Manitou (Gitchi Manitou, Kitchi Manitou, etc.) means " Great Spirit" in several Algonquian languages. Christian missionaries have translated ''God'' as ''Gitche Manitou'' in scriptures and prayers in the Algonquian languages. ''Manitou'' is a common Algonquian term for spirit, mystery, or deity. Native American Churches in Mexico, United States and Canada often use this term. Anishinaabe In more recent Anishinaabe culture, the Anishinaabe language word ''Gichi-manidoo'' means Great Spirit, the Creator of all things and the Giver of Life, and is sometimes translated as the "Great Mystery". Historically, Anishinaabe people believed in a variety of spirits, whose images were placed near doorways for protection. According to Anishinaabeg tradition, ''Michilimackinac'', later named by European settlers as Mackinac Island, in Michigan, was the home of Gitche Manitou, and some Anishinaabeg tribes would make pilgrimages there for rituals devoted to the spirit. In Henry W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bavarii
The Baiuvarii or Bavarii, sometimes simply called Bavarians (; ) were a Germanic people who lived in and near present-day southern Bavaria, which is named after them. They began to appear in records by the 6th century AD, and their culture, language and political institutions are the predecessors of those of the medieval Duchy of Bavaria and Margraviate of Austria. Among the Baiuvarii the Bavarian language developed, which is West Germanic language related to Standard German, still spoken not only by modern-day Bavarians, but also by Austrians and South Tyroleans. Name The name of the Baiuvarii is also spelled ''Baiuvari''. It probably means "men from Bohemia". The placename Bohemia is believed to be connected to that of the Boii, a Celtic people who partly left the region before the Roman era and then were dominated by Germanic peoples. The Baiuvarii gave their name to the region of Bavaria. Language The language of the Baiuvarii is classified as Germanic. It is uncertain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
