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S'està carregant… Walls Come Tumbling Down: The Music and Politics of Rock Against Racism, 2 Tone and Red Wedge (edició 2016)de Daniel Rachel (Autor)
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Walls Come Tumbling Down charts the pivotal period between 1976 and 1992 that saw politics and pop music come together for the first time in Britain's musical history; musicians and their fans suddenly became instigators of social change, and 'the political persuasion of musicians was as important as the songs they sang'. Through the voices of campaigners, musicians, artists and politicians, Daniel Rachel follows the rise and fall of three key movements of the time: Rock Against Racism, 2 Tone, and Red Wedge, revealing how they all shaped, and were shaped by, the music of a generation.Composed of interviews with over 150 of the key players at the time, Walls Come Tumbling Down is a fascinating, polyphonic and authoritative account of those crucial sixteen years in Britain's history. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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I mention this to show that RAR/ ANL was all about earnest protesting there was a lot of hedonism too. And through the simple method of quoting snippets from interviews with bands, organisers, politicians and other interested parties, Rachel presents an absorbing oral history of the movement. The usual suspects come out of it well - Paul Weller, Billy Bragg, Jerry Dammers. But there is a lot of focus on the lesser lights, who were perhaps even more important; Steel Pulse, Misty in Roots, Matumbi, The Ruts, The Au Pairs. Its an excellent account, I only wish Rachel had included the boycott and picketing of Barbarella's nightclub in Birmingham (they were banning Sikhs on the excuse of a "no headgear" rule) but maybe that was ANL rather than RAR
I'd left the UK before the Red Wedge movement, so that's of slightly less interest to me, but it still excellently done, as is the section on Artists against Apartheid. None of the other movements for social change, may, in the end have achieved anything but in the end Nelson Mandela was freed ( )