Album Art Victory Garden: John & Mary
Popular culture victory garden
Cover Art for an album titled Victory Garden. Out of all of the songs, albums, and bands who use the name Victory Garden, this is the album with the closest ties to nature. Many of the songs on this album refer to some part of nature, even though they do not directly address gardening. Nonetheless, this band helps to continue the nostalgic legacy and memory of the World War II victory garden into contemporary society.
John & Mary
1991
iTunes, Apple Inc.
English
Cover Art for Victory Garden: Band Number Eight
Popular Culture victory garden
cover art for an album titled victory garden. This album plays on the nostalgic feelings that surround the World War II victory garden. Again, it does not actually address World War II or gardening, but it provides a reminiscent vibe that it's namesake, alludes too.
Band Number Eight
iTunes, Apple Inc
2005
iTunes, Apple Inc
English
Victory Garden Cover Art: Laura Barrett
popular culture victory garden
Cover art for the album victory garden. The songs on this album titled "Victory Gardens" are more nature-oriented and whimsical. They support the more positive emotional response to the World War II victory garden, demonstrating the continuation of the memory of the victory garden into out contemporary era.
Laura Barrett
iTunes, Apple Inc.
2009
iTunes, Apple Inc.
"What's Left Behind" by the band Victory Garden
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Cover art for the band Victory Garden. Once again, another band chose to name themselves Victory Garden. They also don't particularly talk about growing vegetables or World War II, however, the tone throughout their music is somewhat haunted and sad, talking about things that have been left behind. This fits with the mood of the Second World War. Men went away, to the other side of the world, and left their families behind. Even though they were so far away they could not forget what was left behind. The music that they sing reproduced the feelings from the darker and sadder side of the growing a victory garden during the Second World War. These thoughts are equally valid and equally present in growing a garden as the pride and patriotic feeling that accompanied it. By naming the band Victory Garden, this band is continuing the memory of the World War II victory garden.
Victory Garden
iTunes, Apple Inc.
2011
iTunes, Apple Inc.
English
Victory Garden Album Cover Art: Bill Mallonee & Victory Garden
Popular culture victory garden
Band who titled their album Victory Garden. One of the most prominent ways that the memory of the victory garden is carried on is through music. While the music does not specifically talk about WWII victory gardens, there is a song titled "Flowers" on this CD, which talks about freedom and the and trying to reconnect with people. This tends to go with the theme or spirit of WWII, wanting loved ones to return and fighting the war to bring freedom to other countries. The memory of gardens is carried on through the emotional attitude of the song and the title of both the CD and the Band.
Bill Mallonee & Victory Garden
iTunes, Apple Inc.
2013
iTunes, Apple Inc.
English
The Victory Garden PBS Podcast
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Gardening advice podcast, which carries on the traditions of providing advice to people growing gardens. Out of all the ways that the victory garden has been remembered in our society since the days of World War II, the Victory Garden television show, and podcast, is probably the most authentic thing that carries on the legacy of the victory garden. This show, which first began in the 1970s and continues on to contemporary times, provides instruction and advice about growing and tending plants. Much of it is focused on vegetables and other food baring plants. The Victory Garden show is similar to the advice manuals produced during the Second World War and it attempts to stay authentic to the idea of the days of the original victory gardens.
PBS
WGBH
iTunes, Apple Inc.
WGBH Boston
2010
iTunes, Apple Inc.
English
Victory Garden Song List
Popular culture music
Screen capture of iTunes song list titled Victory Garden. The World War II victory garden seems to be a thing of the past, however, approximately seventy years after the most prominent era of government-endorsed gardening, the term victory garden continues to be used in our society. By simply searching the term victory garden, in the iTunes store, there are at least a dozen songs with that title that come up as a result. So, even though out current society has stopped physically growing victory gardens, the name has lived on and continues to be part of our culture through music and popular culture.
iTunes, Apple Inc.
iTunes, Apple Inc.
2014
iTunes, Apple Inc.
English