coding 12 love songs – 10
coding 12 love songs – 10
sunday, 18 may, 2003
i have included in the coding 'love' songs, songs that show feelings of philos and agape as well as eros;
 I have not included purely 'bawdy',
sexually explicit songs.
 it is for other ethnomusicologists to decide whether this coding could be better broken down into separate codings of eros, philos, agape;
 it is my perception as a combat infantryman is that even western consumer…society perception is not relevant here, thus making separate codings.
 my experiences indicate that 'love' by soldiers is altruistic, and even eros is balanced with agape and philos.
 I believe that perhaps, another relevant coding could be appropriately labeled 'therapeutic' sex.
 durkheim, in his examination of suicide includes the coding 'altruistic' suicide;
 the first example given is the soldier that dies to save his comrade.
 military service, institutionally is altruistic in nature;
 the soldier putting their body and soul 'between their loved home and war's desolation',
as one service song puts it.
 altruism being integral to a soldiers life, it is therefore apparent and integral to all aspects of their life: i.
e.
, eros agape, philos;
 and that love is different, encompasses more than 'love/being in love' in consumer society;
 is determined by aspects not appreciated, or perhaps even perceived in consumer society.
eurasian girl/200pi(astre) geisha/cyclo girl i've got your back the tears of vicki nairne I love my wife mary ann burns lili marlene fraulein paratroopers dak to christmas dream silver bird