#Protest Music

[defleftist]

Thrilled to see someone carrying on the tradition of protest folk music. Keep fighting the good fight!

#jesse welles #war isn’t murder #music #folk music #protest music #leftist #leftblr #communist #socialist #communism #socialism #anti capitalist #anti capitalism #leftist politics #human rights #anti war #anti war protest #free palestine #free gaza

[hussyknee]

“You will not kill the hope in us. Freedom for Palestine”

Baladicenter, a continuation of Baladi Dance Group, was established in 1991 in Beit Jala, Palestine. Founded by a group of promising young people, with a mission to preserve and pass down their rich Palestinian heritage through generations, consolidating and strengthening the Palestinian identity. The group emerged in response to the occupation authorities' attempts to deny and erase the ancient roots and heritage of the Palestinian people.

Please consider buying a Keffiyeh* to support expanding local productions and keep the traditions of Palestine alive. They're currently restocking and hope to get orders out soon.

*Either spelling appears acceptable.

The dance is interspersed with footage of the Great March of Return where young men danced a Dabke circle under gunfire and tear gas from the Occupation Forces, and the civilian defiance of First Intifada, whose 36th anniversary was commemorated on December 8th.

Glory to the Martyrs! 🇵🇸

Glory to the Resistance! 🇵🇸

From River To The Sea Palestine Will Be Free! 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

#i'd appreciate it if someone could do a video description #pro palestinian protests #pro palestine protest #palestinian culture #palestinian art #palestinian resistance #palestinian dance #palestinian music #dabke #free palestine #protest art #protest songs #protest music #decolonization #resistance #power to the people #save west bank #save gaza #kufiya #kuffiyeh #middle east #arab culture #from river to sea palestine will be free #knee of huss

[pocket-size-cthulhu]

Getting real tired of Hozier fans. Y'all will hang on his every word up until he starts asking people to listen to the music (often Black music!) that inspires him. Y'all will listen to Almost (Sweet Music) but haven't listened to Almost - the references. Y'all will listen to Someone New but haven't listened to Aretha Franklin, whose song I say a little prayer is mentioned in the lyrics. Y'all will listen to Nina Cried Power but haven't heard Nina Simone's Sinnerman (the song "Nina Cried Power" pulls its inspiration from) or any of the other artists referenced in the song.

Hozier is one of my favorite artists and I truly feel like nobody is doing it like him (partially BECAUSE of who he's pulling inspiration from), but knowing the music he pulls inspiration from makes it SO much more fun to listen to his songs. Plus it broadens your horizons in general and keeps you from getting "Irish forest man" brain rot, where you can't appreciate the protest influences and Black influences on his music. Check out the references playlist above! Check out some classic jazz (Ella Fitzgerald, that unbelievable talent, is a great place to start)! Listen to some Nina Simone! Look up the lyrics to Nina Cried Power and check out the artists he mentions there! (I actually found a few in there that I don't know! Excited to check them out). Don't fall victim to thinking a white man stands on his own when his work borrows from others! I promise you'll have a good time if you give it a chance.

#Hozier #protest music #Black music #listen to Black music and protest music you cowards 💛 #fans will be like 'forest man' meanwhile hozier is like 'begging y'all to listen to Black artists'

[determinate-negation]

Chilean songwriter Victor Jara wrote El Derecho de Vivir en Paz in 1971 in honor of Vietnam and the struggle against US imperialism. Following the US backed military coup in Chile in 1973, thousands of suspected leftists were rounded up and imprisoned in Chile’s National Stadium including Victor Jara. After his torture and execution, this song became a symbol of protest.

English translation:

The right to live

poet Ho Chi Minh,

who struck from Vietnam

all of humanity.

No cannon will wipe out

the furrow of your rice paddy.

The right to live in peace.

Indochina is the place

beyond the wide sea,

where they ruin the flower

with genocide and napalm.

The moon is an explosion

that blows out all the clamor.

The right to live in peace.

Uncle Ho, our song

is fire of pure love,

it’s a dovecote dove,

olive from an olive grove.

It is the universal song

chain that will triumph,

the right to live in peace.

#mine #music #victor jara #protest music

[balladofhollisbrown]

"The Need For Topical Music", written by Phil Ochs

Before the days of television and mass media, the folksinger was often a traveling newspaper spreading tales through music. 

It is somewhat ironic that in this age of forced conformity and fear of controversy the folksinger may be assuming the same role. The newspapers have unfortunately told the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the cold war truth so help them, advertisers. If a reporter breaks the "code of the West” that used to be confined to Hoot Gibson movies, he’ll find himself out on the street with a story to tell and all the rivers of mass communication damned up. 

The folksingers of today must face up to a great challenge in their music. Folk music is an idiom that deals with realities and not just realities of the past as some would assert. More than ever there is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. 

I have run into some singers who say, “Sure, I agree with most topical songs, but they're just too strong to do in public. Besides, I don't want to label myself or alienate some of my audience into thinking I'm unpatriotic.”

Yet this same person will get on the stage and dedicate a song to Woody Guthrie or Pete Seeger as if in tribute to an ideal they are afraid to reach for. Those who would compromise or avoid the truth inherent in folk music are misleading themselves and their audiences. In a world so full of lies and corruption, can we allow our own national music to go the way of Madison Avenue?

There are definite grounds for criticism of topical music, however. Much of the music has been too bitter and too negative for many audiences to appreciate, but lately there has been a strong improvement in both quantity and quality, and the commercial success of songs like “If I Had a Hammer” have made many of the profit seekers forget their prejudices.

One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies. A case in point is Pete Seeger's classic “Where Have All the Flowers Gone” which brought a message of peace to millions, including many of the younger generation who do not consider themselves involved in politics.

Folk music often arises out of vital movements and struggles. When the union movement was a growing, stirring and honest force in America, it produced a wealth of material to add to the nation's musical heritage. Today, there regrettably seem to be only two causes that will arouse an appreciable amount of people from their apathetic acceptance of the world; the Negro struggle for civil rights and the peace movement. To hear a thousand people singing "We Shall Overcome" without the benefit of Hollywood's bouncing ball is to hear a power and beauty in music that has no limits in its effect.

It never ceases to amaze me how the American people allow the hit parade to hit them over the head with a parade of song after meaningless song about love. If the powers that be absolutely insist that love should control the market, at least they should be more realistic and give divorce songs an equal chance.

Topical music is often a method of keeping alive a name or event that is worth remembering. For example many people have been vividly reminded of the depression days through Woody Guthrie’s dust bowl ballads. Sometimes the songs will differ in interpretation from the textbooks as with “Pretty Boy Floyd”.

Every newspaper headline is a potential song, and it is the role of an effective songwriter to pick out the material that has the interest, significance and sometimes humor adaptable to music.

A good writer must be able to picture the structure of a song and as hundreds of minute ideas race through his head, he must reject the superfluous and trite phrases for the cogent powerful terms. Then after the first draft is completed, the writer must be his severest critic, constantly searching for a better way to express every line in his song.

I think there is a coming revolution (pardon my French) in folk music as it becomes more and more popular in the U. S., and as the search for new songs becomes more intense. The news today is the natural resource that folk music must exploit in order to have the most vigorous folk process possible.

(Broadside #22, March 1963)

#phil ochs #topical music #protest music #folk music #transcribed by meee

[iso7010]

if now is already too much, why isn't now enough? ~ Amahla

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#amahla #protest music #protest songs #pray for congo #eyes on sudan #free palestine #jukebox #black indie music #black musicians

[thisphantomlife]

“It’s always corporate infrastructure over the structure of your face” Jackboot Jump doesn’t get discussed enough

#hozier #hozier lyrics #protest music #Spotify #jackboot jump

[joy-haver]

Blessed is the aging activist,

Old beyond repair.

Planting trees they will not see the shade of.

Holding what was there.

Beloved is the old ecologist,

Seeds saved for me.

Taking time to tell the story,

Lineage braided into beads.

Beautiful is the old AIM sailor,

Ghost dance at Alcatraz.

Carving trails before we walked the way,

Tying future into past.

Blessed is the old abortionist,

Self trained nurse Jane.

Changing course of shifting rivers.

She held us through the pain.

Beloved is the Catholic worker

His Blood on atom bomb,

Knowing above, below, are together,

And that heaven is earth-to-come.

Beautiful is the old musician,

Protest song on tongue,

Taking the time to tell the story,

Of what has and will come.

#poem #text post #poetry #anarchism #aging #aging gracefully #activism #abortion #AIM #Catholic workers #protest music #bard for a cause #Jane collective #ecology

[waitmyturtles]

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This season’s socially-conscious pop anthem comes from a very different trio than you’re probably imagining: an Indigenous trans musician, an environmentalist drag queen, and cello legend Yo-Yo Ma. “Won’t Give Up,” streaming now on major platforms, is a collaboration between Ma, climate-conscious drag performer Pattie Gonia, and Quinn Christopherson, a transgender singer-songwriter of Ahtna Athabascan and Iñupiaq descent. According to an interview with the three in Broadway World this week, Ma first reached out to Gonia (whose real name is Wyn Wiley) to join his ongoing project, “Our Common Nature,” which Ma describes as a “cultural journey” uniting communities with one another and the planet to promote climate action. Upon discovering she was already working on a song centered around Alaskan glaciers, the two combined their projects and brought on Christopherson, who is native to the region. Gonia sings on the track, backed up by Christopherson, who also rounds out the instrumentation with acoustic guitar.

#protest music #yo yo ma #pattie gonia #quinn chistopherson #climate change

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

Stream 'Palestine Lives! Songs from the Struggle of the People of Palestine'

From DJ Ian Head: This is an album of songs and documentary snippets on the radical record label Paredon that was released in 1974. With the current genocide happening in Gaza, I wanted to digitize this fully as an effort to show that what Israel is doing is nothing new, that the apartheid system and genocide against Palestinians has been going on since the Nakba in 1948. Please share!

#FreePalestine #music #songs #protest music #solidarity #GazaUnderAttack #Nakba #Israel #colonialism #apartheid #imperialism #genocide #SoundCloud

[legendarytragedynacho]

Pussy Riot

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#pussy riot #afp photo #music #musician #musica #rock #rock music #post punk #alternative rock #hardcore punk #pop rock #protest music #from russia with love

[persephone-nymph]

Neil Young walking through the woods near his Broken Arrow Ranch with his puppy Harte - By Henry Diltz, 1971

#Neil Young #henry diltz #1970s #classic rock #folk rock #70s rock #country rock #proto grunge #rock and roll #60s rock #hippie aesthetic #hippie music #folk aesthetic #60s aesthetic #70s aesthetic #protest music

[mywifeleftme]

312: Victor Jara // Manifiesto

Manifiesto Victor Jara 1975, Discos Pueblo

Manifiesto is assembled from recordings intended for an album that was to be called Tiempos que cambian (literally Times That Change, or New Times) smuggled out of Chile by Jara’s widow Joan after the folksinger’s torture and murder by the Pinochet junta in 1973. It was simultaneously released by different labels under a variety of titles around the world. My copy hails from Mexico, released by leftist folk label Discos Pueblo, who make their intentions clear in a statement (machine-translated by me) on the back of the sleeve that reads in part:

“We find it necessary to point out that due to its quality and value, Victor Jara’s work should be disseminated, but always by those who identify with it, and not by the transnational companies that financed his return to Chile by organizing the bloody military coup of 1973. [Ed. Something in their use of word “retorno” is probably being lost in translation here; I think it implies something like Jara’s “return to whence he came,” e.g. his burial in Chilean soil.] Those transnational corporations that today benefit from Victor Jara’s singing, filtering out its combative aspects and presenting it as incomplete, seem to ignore the deep paths that people use to preserve the integrity of the voice of their singers. This album is our answer.”

The LP is clearly a work of love (and economy), the sleeve purposely left unglued so that it can be opened like a gatefold, revealing testimonies by his peers. There’s scarcely an inch that isn’t crammed with text—even the flaps that cradle the inner sleeve itself hide lyrics to two of the album’s key songs:

The sleeve unfolded.

“I don’t sing for the sake of singing, or for having a good voice, I sing because the guitar has sense and reason, it has a heart of earth and wings of a dove, it is like holy water that blesses my sorrows. This is where my song fits, as Violeta said, a hard-working guitar that smells of spring. It is not a rich man’s guitar or anything like that, my song is the scaffolding to reach the stars. The song has meaning when it beats in the veins of the one who will die singing truths, not fleeting flattery or foreign fame, but the song of a lark to the bottom of the earth. There, where everything arrives and where everything begins, a song that has been brave will always be a nueva cancion [New Song].”

Jara’s artistry (which, besides spearheading the nueva cancion movement, also included poetry and theatrical direction) was inseparable from his politics, and the music of Manifiesto is a stirring testament to his talents and the historical moment he occupied, when Chile like Cuba before it seemed on the verge of breaking free from centuries of resource extraction-driven imperialism and making its own way. These songs cannot help but feel elegiac given the circumstances of their release, and indeed they do frequently mourn the historical oppression of the common worker. Jara’s was a lark’s voice, not that of a conventional rabble rouser, and most of these songs seem best suited for night-time gatherings of comrades and lovers or, in the case of the dazzling instrumental “Caicai Vilu” (referencing a Mapuche creation myth), perhaps a rural cotillion. But these songs were recorded during the years of Salvador Allende’s triumph, a movement that Jara had personally helped galvanize, and there is the sense that these are songs about moving in a changed world that still feels almost surreal. Only at the very end, with the rock-inflected call to arms “Canto libre,” does Jara’s Revolutionary sentiment take on a more martial beat, finally unfurling a flag of victory.

That victory would be short-lived of course, as U.S. imperialists would soon back Pinochet’s reign of terror and grind the Chilean people under the heel of fascism for another generation. It’s hard to make an argument that Jara and Allende’s side “won” in any meaningful sense (without an appeal to some abstracted moral arbiter anyway). It may be blinkered to even try, knowing that Pinochet died obscenely wealth in his nineties and that there were never meaningful consequences for his even wealthier American backers, while a despairing Allende perished at his own hand and Jara with his fingers broken and his body riddled with bullets. Yet I do believe that a song can transcend the accounting of atrocities and persist on its own terms. Music like Jara’s will endure as long as there are human beings who seek a recognition of their own worthiest qualities in art. As one of the Mexican edition’s compilers says:

“…his voice will not have coffins or crematoriums, nor dark prisons nor barbed wire, comrades! His voice and his guitar continue the fight, they remain alive seeking victory. And they will also return as flags when the Homeland regains its joy.”

312/365

#victor jara #chilean music #salvador allende #protest music #latin american music #chile #latin america #andean folk #revolutionary music #socialism #operation condor #augusto pinochet #'70s music #leftism #music review #vinyl record

[luminalunii97]

Toomaj is an Iranian rapper whose songs targets the heart of the regime. He knew his life would end in execution if the regime captured him but he still stayed in Iran, participated in protests, and made burning anti regime songs. He's currently on the death row.

Soorakh Moosh which means Mouse Hole is his most famous song. Mouse in Persian literature stands for cowardice and buying a mouse hole means finding a place to hide because you must be scared. This song targets the regime and their supporters and suggest them to buy a mouse hole because their time is up and they should be scared of people. The song was released last year. Iranians have been in a revolution state of mind for years now.

Here is a fanvid remix based on the song. The pictures represents people toomaj is addressing in his song. They're famous figures who are either regime supporters or centralists. Bellow I posted the English translation plus some notes. Enjoy.

Toomaj - Soorakh Moosh (English Translation) Lyrics from Genius

Verse 1

If you saw

Peoples’ pain but turned a blind eye

Oppression of the innocent and walked right past by

If you cheated out of fear or self-interest

You too are a partner in crime of the tyrant, you too are a criminal

If you pretended to fall asleep while they were shedding blood

Caught up with your business while they were taking young lives

If you played centrist or stood in the middle and said “politics, what’s that?”

Just know that we don’t have blank votes, there is no neutrality in this war

If you put your hands over your eyes, you have blood on your hands

You are a traitor if you have a platform and your words smell fishy

You are far from the homeland but our binoculars aren’t short ranged

Remember, the filth behind clouds eventually get exposed

If you covered up murders, you’re equally guilty

To cover up crimes, you’re walking through blood

Just know that without apologists this system is incomplete

Iran has so many prisons that you would all fit in

Chorus

Hack journalist, cheap informant, courtier artist, buy a mouse hole

Agent, apologist, order taker

Forced executioner buy a mouse hole

Safety valve, involuntarily appointed

Windy party reformist, buy a mouse hole

Exported, NIAC, betrayer, inciter

Give all your dollars to buy a mouse hole

Verse 2

An artist who does not know about income loss

I piss on your Oscar if you are not on the people’s side

I pull apart your yarn ball so you can’t weave bullshit anymore

Whether you are government’s Shahab or Asghar Farhadi

Whether you are a state actor or a Keffiyeh appropriator

Whether you are an exported actor or the Elahe Hicks type

You sell yourselves for money, status hungry

Alack the leeches - ration eaters you are not of the living

Deadbeat, Karoon isn’t going to be filled with bottled mineral water

Khoozestan doesn’t need crumbs, it owns the whole table

Freedom is expensive? Fine then, the free will give with their lives

Remember only blood washes away blood

Shoot me in the back, kill the thirsty

Take pride in the murder of peaceful protest

Outside the borders, paint the crimes

Take it from me - the good news of tomorrow and retribution

Take from me the good news of tomorrow and retribution

Chorus

Hack journalist, cheap informant, courtier artist, buy a mouse hole

Agent, apologist, order taker

Forced executioner buy a mouse hole

Safety valve, involuntarily appointed

Windy party reformist, buy a mouse hole

Export, NIAC, betrayer, inciter

Give all your dollars to buy a mouse hole

Outro

Don’t wait for a saviour, there is nothing on the horizon

You are the rescuer, you are the hero

If you and I unite...we are boundless

We are the saviours of eternity, we are the Imām of Time [Imam al-Mahdi]

(A couple of notes about the lyrics:

Centrists are those who aren't on the regime's side but they're not on the people's side either. They're indifferent and only care about their own profit and comfort.

Khoozestan owns the whole table is a great way to address favoritism in the Islamic Republic. Khoozestan is a province in south of Iran that the majority of Iran's oil and gas are centered there. It's also one of the poorest states in Iran because of the regime's neglect. So they're rich with resources and poor at the same time because the regime doesn't care about them.

Imam of time is referred to the 12th Imam in our shia muslim beliefs. He was rescued and hidden by God so that he can come back again one day and save the world from corruption. Sort of like the Jesus Christ savior story.)

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[grungeincluded]

‘‘Of course, my paintings are political. All art is political one way or another. The greatest challenge for myself is to not make propaganda art. Art that defines one way of looking at something or one idea that is easily interpreted is not always interesting art. While this kind of art might be agreeable it is also dangerous art. When art has become a marketing tool I doubt that it can any longer be a critic.’’ - Greg Lukens

© Grunge Included | @37fotosb

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[septiccoffeefreak]

#original posts #<- but only because i added the url myself and made this post. i didn't make the song this video isn't mine #protest music #anti war music #Youtube