alankin Posted February 26, 2005 Report Share Posted February 26, 2005 Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit" still haunts me. Interesting aside -- The author of the song later adopted the Rosenberg's children after their execution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Berger Posted February 26, 2005 Report Share Posted February 26, 2005 Nobody's mentioned Peter Gabriel, who's done some of this stuff... "Biko", "Wallflower", a few others. I guess "Big Time" protests against modern materialism in a witty way. Guy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost of miles Posted February 26, 2005 Report Share Posted February 26, 2005 Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit" still haunts me. Interesting aside -- The author of the song later adopted the Rosenberg's children after their execution. Yes--didn't he also co-write "The House I Live In?" (For those unfamiliar, a great anti-racism song from the 1940s recorded by Sinatra as well as Paul Robeson.) For an interesting book about the song, its origin, and its impact, check out David Margolick's book Strange Fruit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maren Posted February 26, 2005 Report Share Posted February 26, 2005 Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit" still haunts me. Interesting aside -- The author of the song later adopted the Rosenberg's children after their execution. Yes--didn't he also co-write "The House I Live In?" (For those unfamiliar, a great anti-racism song from the 1940s recorded by Sinatra as well as Paul Robeson.) For an interesting book about the song, its origin, and its impact, check out David Margolick's book Strange Fruit. Yes, "Lewis Allen" (pen name of Abel Meeropol), wrote "Strange Fruit" and "The House I Live In" -- and adopted Robby and Michael Meeropol (sons of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg). And as I always say when his name comes up, there's a great documentary by Joel Katz, also called "Strange Fruit." (If you click on that link, it will take you to a PBS page about the film, with filmmaker Q&A, and a topic called "Protest Music Overview") Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sonic1 Posted February 27, 2005 Report Share Posted February 27, 2005 (edited) I WANT CANDY! Edited February 27, 2005 by sonic1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maren Posted February 27, 2005 Report Share Posted February 27, 2005 The Lydia Lunch version? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sonic1 Posted February 27, 2005 Report Share Posted February 27, 2005 lol, ironically I was thinking of The Gories version on "outa here", quite a raunchy version itself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bright Moments Posted February 27, 2005 Report Share Posted February 27, 2005 Freedom Now Suite (candid). B-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WD45 Posted February 27, 2005 Report Share Posted February 27, 2005 Fela "Anikulapo" Kuti James Brown Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul secor Posted February 27, 2005 Report Share Posted February 27, 2005 Some of Archie Shepp's early recordings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AfricaBrass Posted February 27, 2005 Report Share Posted February 27, 2005 Fela "Anikulapo" Kuti James Brown How could I forget Fela!?!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted February 28, 2005 Report Share Posted February 28, 2005 There's a great record on Broadside of protest music by the Rev. Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick and Jimmie Collier called "Everybody's Got a Right to Live." One I immediately think of, anyway. Other than that, well, all those jazz records I have... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skeith Posted February 28, 2005 Report Share Posted February 28, 2005 I love Mercedes Sosa, and now Brownie will say that he thinks I don't understand a word of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazzmoose Posted February 28, 2005 Report Share Posted February 28, 2005 I love Mercedes Sosa, and now Brownie will say that he thinks I don't understand a word of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny E Posted March 21, 2006 Report Share Posted March 21, 2006 My favorite protest singer was Woody Guthrie. One album of his that I find very interesting is: Ballads of Sacco & Vanzetti I'm just now getting into these recordings and I love them. Does anybody know what the best book out there is on the sacco & vanzetti case? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porcy62 Posted March 21, 2006 Report Share Posted March 21, 2006 What about THE CLASH? One of my favourite band. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ep1str0phy Posted March 21, 2006 Report Share Posted March 21, 2006 Hell, if Ornette Coleman isn't protest music, I don't know what is (and Albert Ayler, and Rahsaan Roland Kirk...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander Hawkins Posted March 21, 2006 Report Share Posted March 21, 2006 My favorite protest singer was Woody Guthrie. One album of his that I find very interesting is: Ballads of Sacco & Vanzetti I'm just now getting into these recordings and I love them. Does anybody know what the best book out there is on the sacco & vanzetti case? Not a book, but if I remember correctly, Karl Llewellyn wrote very intelligently (no surprise) about it - although I forget the precise reference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neal Pomea Posted March 22, 2006 Report Share Posted March 22, 2006 (edited) From the world of country music, I like Iris Dement's song There's a Wall in Washington. None finer, though, than Hazel Dickens. See Hard Hitting Songs for Hard Hit People, It's Hard to Tell the Singer from the Song, and Coal Mining Women, which includes Florence Reece's Which Side Are You On? Come all you good workers, Good news to you I'll tell Of how the good old union Has come in here to dwell. CHORUS: Which side are you on? Which side are you on? Which side are you on? Which side are you on? My dady was a miner, And I'm a miner's son, And I'll stick with the union 'Til every battle's won. They say in Harlan County There are no neutrals there. You'll either be a union man Or a thug for J. H. Blair. Oh workers can you stand it? Oh tell me how you can? Will you be a lousy scab Or will you be a man? Don't scab for the bosses, Don't listen to their lies. Us poor folks haven't got a chance Unless we organize Edited March 22, 2006 by It Should be You Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nessa Posted March 22, 2006 Report Share Posted March 22, 2006 Anyone mentioned the Hot 5s yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
md655321 Posted March 22, 2006 Report Share Posted March 22, 2006 Don't even get me started on Rage Against the Machine. I went to high school with those guys. Heck, I even jammed with Zack (when he was a really BAD drummer). We all lived in highly sheltered in Irvine, California. If you've ever read interviews about Zack being oppressed because of his race; he wasn't, he was way more popular than I was (and I had tons of friends). I dont really remember Zack talking about his personal oppression much, if ever. And ive read a ton of his interviews. Regardless, lyrics like this show a great deal of poetic and political skill. March Of Death by Zack De La Rocha I was born with the voice of a riot, a storm Lightening the function, the form Far from the norm, I won't follow like cattle I'm more like the catalyst, calm in the mix of battle Who let the cowboy on the saddle? He don't know a missile from a gavel Para terror troopin' flippin' loops of death upon innocent flesh But i'm back in the cipher my foes and friends with a verse and a pen against a line I won't tow or defend instead I curse at murderous men in suits of professionals who act like animals This man child, ruthless and wild Who's gonna chain this beast back on the leash? This Texas fuhrer, for sure a compassionless con who serve a lethal needle to the poor, the cure for crime is murder? Well I was born with the voice of a riot, a storm Lightening the function, the form Far from the norm, I won't follow like cattle I'm more like the catalyst, calm in the mix of battle Who let the cowboy on the saddle? He don't know a missile from a gavel I read the news today oh boy a snap shot of a midnight ploy Vexed and powerless devoured my hours I'm motionless with no rest 'Cause a scream now holds the sky under another high-tech driveby A lie is a lie this God is an eagle or a condor for war nothing more Islam peace, Islam stare into my eye brother please off our knees To beef now we feed their disease interlocked our hands across seas What is a flag is a rag but a shroud out loud outside my window is a faceless crowd 'Cause a cowering child just took her last breath one snare in the march of death here it comes the sound of terror from above he flex his Texas twisted tongue the poor lined up to kill in desert slums for oil that burn beneath the desert sun now we spit flame to flip this game all the targets are taking aim all targets are taking aim we're the targets are taking aim One of the few coherent songs about the most recent Iraq War. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdogus Posted March 22, 2006 Report Share Posted March 22, 2006 What about THE CLASH? One of my favourite band. At one time, they were widely referred to as "the only band that matters." And the wide referrers were right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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