nitzsche, sainte - marie sang love lifts us up where we belong.
nitzsche, sainte - marie sang love lifts us up where we belong.
who sang love lifts us up where we belong?
nitzsche, sainte - marie
love lifts us up: a collection 1968-83









































love lifts us up: a collection 1968-83 is a compilation album by singer/songwriter jennifer warnes. it collects fourteen songs from warnes' first five studio albums, two non-album singles and four tracks from motion picture soundtracks. it includes the hits "right time of the night", which reached no. 6 on the "billboard" singles chart, "i know a heartache when i see one", which peaked at no. 19, and "up where we belong", a duet with joe cocker from the 1982 movie "an officer and a gentleman", which stayed at no. 1 for three weeks.
love lifts us up: a collection 1968-83
pre-islamic women's literature seems to have been limited to the genre of "marathiya" ('elegy'). the earliest poetesses were al-khansa and layla al-akhyaliyyah of the 7th century. their concentration on the "ritha'" or elegy suggests that this was a form deemed acceptable for women to work with. however, the love lyric was also an important genre of women's poetry. the umayyad and 'abbasid periods saw professional singing slave girls ("qiyan", sing. "quayna") who sang love songs and accompanied these with music; alongside panegyric and competitive verse-capping, "qiyan" also sang love-poetry ("ghazal"). in his "risalat al-qiyan" ("epistle of the singing-girls"), al-jahiz (d. 255/868×69) reckoned that an accomplished singer might have a repertoire of 4,000 songs. pre-eminent 'abbasid singing-girls included: 'inan (paramour of harun al-rashid, r. 786-809); arib al-ma'muniyya (concubine of al-ma'mun, r. 813-17); and fadl ashsha'ira (d. 871; concubine of al-mutawakkil, r. 847-61). meanwhile, harun al-rashid's half-sister ‘ulayya bint al-mahdī (777-825) was also known for her poetic skills, as was the mystic and poet of basra rabi'a al-'adawiyya (d. 801). women also had an important role in pre-modern periods as patrons of the arts.
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