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• 1 2016-04-25T10:08:07-07:00 Media Source #1: The Great Nations of Europe 1 Una canción de Randy Newman que satiriza los efectos del colonialismo. image_header 2016-04-25T10:08:07-07:00 Título: "The Great Nations of Europe"
  Cantador: Randy Newman
  Álbum: Bad Love
  Fecha: 1999 (Grabada al Festival Jazz Open en 2006)
  Duración: 3:47 minutos
  
  Letra:
  
  The Great Nations of Europe
  Had gathered on the shore
  They'd conquered what was behind them
  And now they wanted more
  So they looked to the mighty ocean
  And took to the western sea 
  The Great Nations of Europe in the sixteenth century
  
  Hide your wives and daughters
  Hide the groceries too
  Great nations of Europe coming through
  
  The Grand Canary Islands 
  First land to which they came
  They slaughtered all the canaries
  Which gave the land its name
  There were natives there called Guanches
  Guanches by the score
  Bullets, disease, the Portuguese, and they weren't there anymore
  
  Now they're gone, they're gone, they're really gone
  You've never seen anyone so gone
  They're a picture in a museum
  Some lines written in a book
  But you won't find a live one 
  No matter where you look
  
  Columbus sailed for India 
  Found Salvador instead
  He shook hands with some Indians
  and soon they all were dead
  They got TB and typhoid and athlete's foot
  Dyptheria and the flu
  Excuse me - Great nations coming through
  
  Hide your wives and daughters
  Hide the groceries too
  Great nations of Europe coming through
  
  Balboa found the pacific 
  And on the trail one day
  He met some friendly Indians
  Whom he was told were gay
  So he had them torn apart
  by dogs on religious grounds they say
  The great nations of Europe were quite holy in their way
  
  Now they're gone, they're gone, they're really gone
  You've never seen anyone so gone
  Some bones hidden in a canyon
  Some paintings in a cave
  There's no use trying to save them 
  There's nothing left to save
  
  Hide your wives and daughters
  Hide the groceries too
  Great nations of Europe coming through
  
  From where you and I are standing
  At the end of the century
  Europes have sprung up everywhere, as even I can see
  But there on the horizon as a possibility
  Some bug from out of Africa might come for you and me
  Destroying everything in its path
  From sea to shining sea
  Like the great nations of Europe
  In the sixteenth century
  
  Descripción y Relación a la Fuente Primaria:
  
       Randy Newman compuso “The Great Nations of Europe” en 1999 por su álbum Bad Love. En la canción, Newman describe los efectos negativos del colonialismo, utilizando una escala mayor y un ritmo alegre para crear el tono satírico. Toca el piano solo, cantando de las tragedias que afectaron las indígenas, como la crueldad de los conquistadores o la transmisión de enfermedades. Las estrofas progresan a través del tiempo, así que terminan por hablar sobre el presente. Enfatizan cómo las culturas indígenas ya no existen, diciendo que su legado está limitado a unos líneas en los libros históricos. El estribillo advierte la audiencia a esconder sus esposas e hijas, como un chiste irónico (porque el cantador y su audiencia son principalmente blancos). Últimamente, Newman usa humor negro para criticar las sociedades imperialistas, las que se perciben superiores que el resto del mundo.
       La canción critica los efectos presentes del colonialismo por el uso de sátira, en una manera similar al cuadro Santa Rosa de Lima Según Vásquez. Newman nota cómo no podemos reparar el daño del pasado, aunque queremos, porque “there’s nothing left to save.” Como Botero, reconoce que los conquistadores trataban de arrasar las tradiciones indígenas para imponer la cultura europea, eventualmente afectando la gran trayectoria de historia. Es interesante, porque Newman escribió la canción para criticar su propio país, los Estados Unidos, diciendo que “Europes have sprung up everywhere...” En esa manera, está usando la disidencia con colonialismo para informar su audiencia cómo las relaciones entre sociedades “superiores” e “inferiores” todavía oprimen y manipulan los países subdesarrollados.