12/4/24

Workers, Trade Unions & Strikes

Communism

Antifascist Resistance Songs

Folk for the Folks

socialist, revolutionary, and progressive music

For more information on the life and works of Alistair Hulett please visit www.alistairhulett.com

The Internationale

The Liberated Woman's Songbook

Bread and Roses (1912)

Paul Robeson

Joe Hill

Imagine

Imagine (Remastered 2010)

Liberation Music Orchestra

Song Of The United Front

Bursting At The Seam

Part Of The Union

Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits

The Times They Are A-Changin'

Never Cross a Picket Line

Must I Paint You a Picture?: The Essential Billy Bragg

Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards

If I Had a Hammer: Songs of Hope and Struggle

Solidarity Forever

The Butcher's Share

Freedom Is a Verb

World Wide Rebel Songs

Union Town

'The Social Power of Music' AVAILABLE 2/22/2019: folkways.si.edu/the-social-power-of-music

MUSIC HAS THE POWER TO BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER

From parties to protests to prayer, music is a powerful catalyst for celebration, for change, and for a sense of community. Through making music together, we become bigger than ourselves. Whether singing with our families and friends or with thousands of strangers in an arena, music transforms lives, engages individuals, and connects local and global communities. The Social Power of Music chronicles the vivid, impassioned, and myriad ways in which music binds, incites, memorializes, and moves groups of people. This richly illustrated 124-page book, with 80+ tracks on 4 CDs, invites listeners into musical practices, episodes, and movements throughout the U.S. and beyond. These songs of struggle, devotion, celebration, and migration remind us that music has the potential to change our world.

The Social Power of Music

Woody Guthrie - This Land is Your Land

Today & Tomorrow

And We'll Fight Fascists Too

Der heimliche Aufmarsch

The Rally to Shut Down Detention Centers was held in Glens Falls on Thursday, August 8.  As several organizers of the protest occupied congresswoman Elise Stefanik's office to demand action on the Trump administration's immigrant detention policies, other activists stood in the lobby to provide moral support to those inside and document the event.  As they did so, folksinger Ben Groska played Anne Feeney's "Have You Been to Jail for Justice?", and WOOC correspondent Aaron Pedinotti recorded his performance.  A few minutes later, the occupiers of the congresswoman's office were taken to jail for justice.

Ben Groska Plays "Have You Been To Jail For Justice?" at The Rally To Shut Down Detention Centers

What Did You Learn in School Today

Pete Seeger