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Silenced by Sound: The Music Meritocracy Myth [[link removed]]
By Ian Brennan with a Foreword by Tunde Adebimpe
Popular culture has woven itself into the social fabric of our lives, penetrating
people's homes and haunting their psyches through images and earworm hooks. Justice,
at most levels, is something the average citizen may have little influence upon,
leaving us feeling helpless and complacent. But pop music is a neglected arena
where concrete change can occur-by exercising active and thoughtful choices to reject
the low-hanging, omnipresent corporate fruit, we begin to rebalance the world, one
engaged listener at a time.
Silenced by Sound: The Music Meritocracy Myth is a powerful exploration of the challenges
facing art, music, and media in the digital era. With his fifth book, producer,
activist, and author Ian Brennan delves deep into his personal story to address
the inequity of distribution in the arts globally. Brennan challenges music industry
tycoons by skillfully demonstrating that there are millions of talented people around
the world far more gifted than the superstars for whom billions of dollars are spent
to promote the delusion that they have been blessed with unique genius.
We are invited to accompany the author on his travels, finding and recording music
from some of the world's most marginalized peoples. In the breathtaking range of
this book, our preconceived notions of art are challenged by musicians from South
Sudan to Kosovo, as Brennan lucidly details his experiences recording music by the
Tanzania Albinism Collective, the Zomba Prison Project, a "witch camp" in Ghana,
the Vietnamese war veterans of Hanoi Masters, the Malawi Mouse Boys, the Canary
Island whistlers, genocide survivors in both Cambodia and Rwanda, and more.
Silenced by Sound is defined by muscular, terse, and poetic verse, and a nonlinear
format rife with how-to tips and anecdotes. The narrative is driven and made corporeal
via the author's ongoing field-recording chronicles, his memoir-like reveries, and
the striking photographs that accompany these projects.
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Lessons of the Spanish Revolution: 1936-1939 [[link removed]]
By Vernon Richards with an Introduction by David Goodway
Lessons of the Spanish Revolution
examines the many ways in which Spain's revolutionary movement contributed to its
own defeat. Was it too weak to carry through the revolution? To what extent was
the purchase of arms and raw materials from outside sources dependent upon the appearance
of a constitutional government inside Republican Spain? What chances had an improvised
army of guerrillas against a trained fighting force? These were some of the practical
problems facing the revolutionary movement and its leaders.
But in seeking to solve these problems, the anarchists and revolutionary syndicalists
were also confronted with other fundamental questions. Could they collaborate with
political parties and reformist unions? Given the circumstances, was one form of
government to be supported against another? Should the revolutionary impetus of
the first days of resistance be halted in the interests of the armed struggle against
Franco or be allowed to develop as far as the workers were prepared to take it?
Was the situation such that the social revolution could triumph and, if not, what
was to be the role of the revolutionary workers?
Originally written as a series of weekly articles in the 1950s and expanded, republished,
and translated into many languages over the years, Vernon Richards's analysis remains
essential reading for all those interested in revolutionary praxis.
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Working-Class Heroes: A History of Struggle in Song: A Songbook [[link removed]]
Edited by Mat Callahan and Yvonne Moore
Working-Class Heroes is an organic melding of history, music, and politics that
demonstrates with remarkably colorful evidence that workers everywhere will struggle
to improve their conditions of life. And among them will be workers who share an
insight: in order to better our lot, we must act collectively to change the world.
This profusely illustrated treasury of song sheets, lyrics, photographs, histories,
and biographical sketches explores the notion that our best hope lies in the capacity
of ordinary working people to awaken to the need to emancipate ourselves and all
of humanity.
Featuring over a dozen songwriters, from Joe Hill to Aunt Molly Jackson, Working-Class
Heroes delivers a lyrical death blow to the falsehood that so-called political songs
of the twentieth century were all written by intellectuals in New York. Many, like
Ella May Wiggins, were murdered by the bosses. Others, like Sarah Ogan Gunning,
watched their children starve to death and their husbands die of black lung, only
to rise up singing against the system that caused so much misery.
Most of the songs collected here are from the early twentieth century, yet their
striking relevance to current affairs invites us to explore the historical conditions
that inspired their creation: systemic crisis, advancing fascism, and the threat
of world war. In the face of violent terror, these working-class songwriters bravely
stood up to fight oppression. Such courage is immortal, and the songs of such heroes
can still lift our spirits, if we sing them today.
Featured in this twenty-song collection are Sarah Ogan Gunning, Ralph Chaplin, Woody
Guthrie, Ella May Wiggins, Joe Hill, Paul Robeson, John Handcox, Aunt Molly Jackson,
Jim Garland, Alfred Hayes, Joseph Brandon, and several anonymous proletarian songwriters
whose names have been long forgotten, though their words will never die.
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