Where have all the flowers gone?
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"Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" is a famous folk song, written by Pete Seeger and later popularized by artists like Peter, Paul and Mary, that reflects on the cyclical futility of war and loss.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| Where have all the flowers gone? canonical | 1 |
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
anti-war song
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folk song ⓘ song ⓘ |
| associatedMovement |
American folk revival
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peace movement ⓘ |
| basedOn | traditional Cossack folk song ⓘ |
| composer | Pete Seeger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| culturalImpact | became a standard of the 1960s protest song repertoire ⓘ |
| firstRecordingArtist | Pete Seeger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | folk ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Mikhail Sholokhov’s novel And Quiet Flows the Don NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| lyricalDevice |
repetition
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rhetorical question ⓘ |
| lyricist | Pete Seeger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| message | critique of war’s human cost ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | cyclical sequence of questions and answers ⓘ |
| notablePerformanceLanguage | German ⓘ |
| notablePerformer |
Joan Baez
NERFINISHED
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Marlene Dietrich NERFINISHED ⓘ Peter, Paul and Mary NERFINISHED ⓘ The Kingston Trio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performanceContext |
anti-war demonstrations
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peace rallies ⓘ |
| popularizedBy |
Joan Baez
NERFINISHED
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Marlene Dietrich NERFINISHED ⓘ Peter, Paul and Mary NERFINISHED ⓘ The Kingston Trio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| refrain |
When will they ever learn?
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Where have all the flowers gone? NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releasePeriod | 1960s ⓘ |
| structure | strophic ⓘ |
| theme |
cyclical nature of violence
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loss ⓘ pacifism ⓘ war ⓘ |
| topic |
graves of soldiers
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soldiers going to war ⓘ young women and marriage ⓘ |
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