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John Brown's Body

Anonymous
John Brown's Body
Nella versione di Milva, credo che

"oh Dio schiavista
il suo corpo dilaniò,"

Sia in realtà

"odio schiavista
il suo corpo dilaniò"

hai perfettamente ragione, correggiamo.
Alberto Scotti 2024/11/12 - 02:16
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The Price of the Ticket

The Price of the Ticket
(2024)
Album: No More Water: The Gospel Of James Baldwin

Meshell Ndegeocello ha pubblicato un ricco album dedicato a James Baldwin, grande scrittore e intellettuale afroamericano in prima linea nelle battaglie per i diritti di tutte le minoranze.

Ne parla in maniera estesa questa settimana la bravissima Silvia Boschero nel programma Moby Dick su Radio Due.
I'm just walkin'
(Continues)
Contributed by Lorenzo Masetti 2024/10/31 - 10:08
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Hard Times

Hard Times
featuring Black Thought
dall'album Wake Up! (2010)
HARD TIMES
(Continues)
2024/9/20 - 22:57
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Blackbird

Blackbird
Merlo
(Continues)
Contributed by Luke Atreides 2024/8/9 - 23:33
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Down Rodeo

Down Rodeo
(1996)
Album: Evil Empire

Rodeo Drive è la strada dello shopping di Beverly Hills,

“Down Rodeo” was a promotional single by American rock band Rage Against the Machine. The song was intended as the third single from their Evil Empire album, although a domestic single was never released.

The song addresses social inequality between the rich and poor of America, and the simmering class warfare that existed in the band’s home city of Los Angeles following the 1992 Los Angeles Riots. “Down Rodeo” was written just three years after six days of riots were sparked by police violence against minorities in the city. The full lyric must be put into context of the time period and the beating of Rodney King to be understood: “So now I’m rollin' down Rodeo with a shotgun, These people ain’t seen a brown skin man, Since their grandparents bought one”

Genius
Yeah, I'm rollin' down Rodeo with a shotgun
(Continues)
Contributed by lucone 2024/5/25 - 23:29
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Georgia Chain Gang

Guitar Nubbit
Guitar Nubbit - Georgia Chain Gang -1962
Transcription: Jürgen Henning (Blues Power Magazin 2 (1993), no. 3, p. 19)

Alvin Hankerson (November 23, 1923 – June 30, 1995), better known as Guitar Nubbit, was an American blues guitarist and singer. His most notable song was "Georgia Chain Gang", which was originally released in 1962 as a single on Bluestown Records. - Wikipedia
I Was Way Down in Georgia,
(Continues)
Contributed by Pluck 2024/4/18 - 18:24
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Mr.Tyree

Anonymous
Mr.Tyree
Testo trascritto dalla presentazione del video citato
Mr. Tyree
(Continues)
Contributed by Pluck 2024/4/17 - 17:25

I Am Sold and Going to Georgia

Anonymous
Library of Congress, Archive of AmericanFolk Song, WPA Collection.
American Folksongs of Protest by John Greenway
Philadelphia University Pennsylvania Press 1953
p. 95-96

This song is usually sung by the chained gangs of slaves who are on their way, being driven from Maryland, Virginia, and Kentucky, to the more southern states for sale. The last line of each verse is the chorus, and gives a most impressive effect when sung—as it often is— by 60 or 150 voices echoing the plaintive grief of their hearts. This last line is intended as an appeal to all who have it in their power to aid in bringing about the jubilee of emancipation. -J. W. C. Pennington, D.D. Despite Dr. Pennington's contemporary affidavit that this is a Negro song, most observers will agree that its white origin is transparent; but it is worth including, if only for Dr. Pennington's intriguing phrase, "sung ... by 60 or 150 voices."
O! When shall we poor souls be free?
(Continues)
Contributed by Pluck 2024/4/15 - 17:21

I Want to Go Home

Anonymous
Da : Slave Songs of the United States.
New York: A. Simpson & Co., 1867. - Part 1, p.46 , #61

William Francis Allen, (1830-1889), Charles Pickard Ware, (1840-1921), and Lucy McKim Garrison, ( 1842-1877) .

[Verse 7 was added after the Emancipation Proclamation.--J. S. R.]
da: William Francis Allen, (1830-1889), Charles Pickard Ware, (1840-1921), and Lucy McKim Garrison, ( 1842-1877) .
Dere's no rain to wet you.
(Continues)
Contributed by Pluck 2024/4/11 - 17:10
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Ameriican Requiem

Ameriican Requiem
(2024)
Album: Cowboy Carter

L'album è la seconda parte di una trilogia inaugurata con Renaissance del 2022. In questo album Beyoncé coraggiosamente si arrischia in un’operazione di riappropriazione culturale del country, tradizionalmente visto come musica bianca e di stampo conservatore.

Ma Beyoncé è comunque una donna del sud degli Stati Uniti e il country fa parte delle sue radici quanto la musica nera, e in questo album riesce a mettere insieme le due cose in maniera a volte sorprendente.

La traccia di apertura Ameriican Requiem (la doppia i è un riferimento all'atto II della trilogia) è un vero proprio requiem per il sogno americano, per tutte le idee di libertà e di uguaglianza tradite nel corso della storia, il funerale di una società libera dall'odio e dalla discriminazione ancora molto lontana dal realizzarsi.

L'album continua con Blackbiird (anche qui con la doppia i), cover della canzone scritta da Paul McCartney per i Beatles e dedicata a tutte le donne nere che lottano per liberarsi.
Nothin' really ends
(Continues)
Contributed by Lorenzo Masetti 2024/4/1 - 23:17
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Pick a Bale of Cotton

Anonymous
Pick a Bale of Cotton
Pickin' Cotton All Day Long (Traditional)

Testo e nota da Azizi Powell.

This comedic song is about a preacher (minister) visiting people on Sunday (when it was common to have fried chicken for dinner.) The "pickin cotton all day long" chorus doesn't have anything to do with the preacher and chicken verses.

Traccia audio e nota da :

Prison Worksongs Recorded at the Louisiana State Penitentiary,Angola,La,by Dr. Harry Oster
ARHOOLIE CD 448
© &® 1959 & 1997 by Arhoolie Productions, Inc

Pickin' Cotton All Day Long sung by two sisters, Creola & Ceola Scott who were very religious and not particularly fond of this type of secular material.. ( Dr. Harry Oster 1959 )
Pickin’ cotton ,cotton pickin’ all day long,
(Continues)
Contributed by Pluck 2024/3/27 - 12:22
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Song of the Coffle Gang

Anonymous
Traducanzone di Andrea Buriani
da “Song of the Coffle Gang” (di Anonimo)

ANIME RUBATE ALL’AFRICA
(Continues)
2024/2/28 - 09:27

'Cause I'm a Nigger

Anonymous
da
Lawrence Gellert, “Negro Songs of Protest”
Published by the American Music League - New York - 1936
You take mah labor
(Continues)
Contributed by Pluck 2024/2/26 - 17:15
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Corrido de Joaquín Murrieta

Anonymous
Corrido de Joaquín Murrieta
Carlos.
Joaquin era mexicano, quien sino iba a pelear sino es por su tierra. Los chilenos son de apropiarse de cosas que no les pertenecen. Que verguenza Neruda!

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Carlos
Joaquin Murrieta era un messicano, che non avrebbe combattuto se non per la sua terra. Ai cileni piace appropriarsi di cose che non gli appartengono. Che peccato Neruda!
2024/2/24 - 11:37
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Tom Moore’s Farm

Tom Moore’s Farm
TOM MOORE'S FARM
(Continues)
Contributed by Pluck 2024/1/31 - 19:00
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Prison Song

Prison Song
(1976)

Scritta da Tommy Butler (solo un omonimo del bassista dei Big Country) e interpretata da Carlton Williams per un musical intitolato "Selma" e dedicato alla famosa marcia di Selma e a Martin Luther King.
Cold chills, prison cells
(Continues)
2024/1/28 - 15:57
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Woman Of The Ghetto

Woman Of The Ghetto
Pochi giorni fa se ne è andata anche la grande Marlena Shaw, autrice e interprete di canzoni bellissime come questa.
DONNA DEL GHETTO
(Continues)
2024/1/25 - 22:05
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We March

We March
(1995)
Scritta da Prince con Nona Gaye (figlia di Marvin Gaye)

Sembra che Prince sperasse che la canzone diventasse una specie di inno non ufficiale della Million Man March
(Uno para todos, y todos para uno)
(Continues)
2024/1/21 - 00:20
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Prayer Song

Prayer Song
Album: Room 25 (2018)

Featuring Adam Ness

One of the more socially conscious tunes on the album is “Prayer Song,” which features vocals from Adam Ness. The lyrics deftly explore subjects, such as gun violence, police brutality, gentrification, toxic masculinity, and systemic racism.

The lyrics include: “I set my cell phone on the dash, could’ve sworn it’s a gun / I ain’t seen a toddler in the back after firing seven shots.”

Those words allude to incidents, where a black person is shot because a police officer apparently mistakes a cell phone for a gun.

It is also a reference to the June 7, 2016 murder of Philando Castile. He was shot by a police officer seven times while his 4-year-old daughter was sitting in the backseat.

The song additionally explores how America never truly removed the shackles of past racial oppression (“A free man in the land of the noose,” “Darkness lingers in... (Continues)
[Verse 1: Noname]
(Continues)
2024/1/15 - 20:49
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Eve Was Black

Eve Was Black
Album: The Returner (2023)
Eve was Black, haven't you heard?
(Continues)
2024/1/14 - 18:41
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Canzone per Angela Davis

Canzone per Angela Davis
1972
Questa grande umanità ha detto basta! - Canzoni di lotta di tutto il mondo
Fuori, fuori Angela Davis
(Continues)
Contributed by Alberto Scotti 2024/1/13 - 01:57
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Estranged Fruit

Estranged Fruit
(2023)
Featuring NOFX
Fishbone EP

This track is off the influential ska band’s recently self-titled EP, which was produced by NOFX’s Fat Mike. Referring to Billie Holiday’s 1939 classic anti-lynching standard “Strange Fruit“, the tune effectively merges past histories with current realities.

Questo brano fa parte del recente EP omonimo della influente band ska, prodotto da Fat Mike dei NOFX. Con un riferimento al classico contro i linciaggi del 1939 di Billie Holiday "Strange Fruit", il pezzo fonde efficacemente storie passate con realtà attuali.

50 Best Protest Songs of 2023
The poplar trees are now populous
(Continues)
2024/1/13 - 00:20
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Fling out the Anti-Slavery Flag

Fling out the Anti-Slavery Flag
The Anti-Slavery Harp
Compiled by William W. Brown
Boston: Bela Marsh, 184 - p. 22

FLING OUT THE ANTI-SLAVERY FLAG

AIR : Auld Lang Syne
Fling out the Anti-slavery flag
(Continues)
Contributed by Pluck 2024/1/4 - 18:43
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A Better Tomorrow

A Better Tomorrow
(1997)
Album: Wu-Tang Forever
[Intro: Inspectah Deck]
(Continues)
2024/1/2 - 19:14
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Rescue the Slave

Rescue the Slave
The Anti-Slavery Harp
Compiled by William W. Brown
Boston: Bela Marsh, 1848
p. 28,29

RESCUE THE SLAVE!

AIR — The Troubadour

This song was composed while George Latimer, the fugitive slave,was confined in Leverett Street Jail, expecting to be carried back to Virginia by James B. Gray, his claimant.
Sadly the fugitive weeps in his cell,
(Continues)
Contributed by Pluck 2023/12/20 - 12:58
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I'm Crying

I'm Crying
[2016]
Scritta da Lucinda Williams.
Arrangiamento musicale del compositore Nicholas Britell.
Nella colonna sonora del film di Gary Ross "Free State of Jones" (2016), con Matthew McConaughey, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Mahershala Ali.

Newton Knight (1829-1922), contadino, soldato sudista, disertore, comandante di un nutrito gruppo armato di renitenti, schiavi fuggiaschi e defezionisti che nel Mississippi profondo, nella contea di Jones, combattè contro le razzie e le violenze dell'esercito confederato, dei proprietari terrieri e dei bianchi razzisti. Anche dopo la fine della guerra Newton Knight, nominato sceriffo federale, comandò un reggimento di soldati afroamericani che aveva il compito di fermare le violenze dei gruppi paramilitari bianchi, precursori del Ku Klux Klan. Sposò in seconde nozze Rachel, una ex schiava da cui ebbe diversi figli. Morì nel 1922 e, nonostante in Mississippi allora la segregazione vietasse i cimiteri misti, fu sepolto accanto a sua moglie su una collina della contea di Jones che domina la loro fattoria.
I'm crying for the mother who lost her only son
(Continues)
2023/12/14 - 18:29
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Walking Boss

Walking Boss
Walking Boss – Doc Watson – 2004
Walkin' boss
(Continues)
Contributed by Pluck 2023/12/9 - 09:23

The Slave-Holder's Address To The North Star

The Slave-Holder's Address To The North Star
The Anti-Slavery Harp
Compiled by William W. Brown
Boston: Bela Marsh, 1848 p. 29

THE SLAVE-HOLDER'S ADDRESS TO THE NORTH STAR
by John Pierpont ( 1785 – 1866 )
Star of the North! Thou art not bigger
(Continues)
Contributed by Pluck 2023/12/9 - 08:51
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[Ain't Gonna Let Nobody] Turn Me Around

[Ain't Gonna Let Nobody] Turn Me Around
"Ain`t gonna let that Henry Kissinger turn me around..."
Piccino, è morto di lattime! *

* Espressione elbana: "per un rigurgito di latte"
L'Anonimo Toscano del XXI Secolo 2023/11/30 - 10:43
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Song of the Coffle Gang

Anonymous
Trascrizione di Azizi Powell del testo cantato da Mike Seeger ( 1933 – 2009 ) “Stolen Soul from Africa “ , titolo alternativo di “Song of the Coffle Gang” , pubblicato da Library of Congress nel 2007 vedi :
Library of Congress
We are stolen souls from Africa
(Continues)
Contributed by Pluck 2023/11/27 - 22:16
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Cotton Fields

Cotton Fields
La versione cantata da Francesco Guccini in Canzoni da Osteria [2023]



dq82 2023/11/22 - 16:03
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Song of the Coffle Gang

Anonymous
Notes.

Said to be written by a Slave.

This song is said to be sung by Slaves, as they are chained in gangs,
when parting from friends for the far off South—children taken from
parents, husbands from wives, and brothers from sisters.

Lyrics | Shackles, Chains and Forgotten Souls
WordPress.com
https://shacklesandchains.wordpress.com › ...
Pluck 2023/11/19 - 18:58
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Come Join the Abolitionists

Anonymous
Come Join the Abolitionists
The Anti-Slavery Harp
Compiled by William W. Brown
Boston: Bela Marsh, 1848 pag. 40,41

COME JOIN THE ABOLITIONISTS ( Traditional )

AIR — When I can read my title clear
Come join the Abolitionists,
(Continues)
Contributed by Pluck 2023/11/14 - 13:27




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