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Category: Protest Songs

Songs of the Week: Hylda Sims and Faith Petric

Posted 2 November 20192 November 2019 Radio DaysLeave a commentPosted in Protest Songs, Song of the Week

We’ve ran a piece last year on singer Ronnie Gilbert, so I’ve been feeling guilty ever since that we’ve neglected other equally exceptional songstresses who (have) continued to perform, and to stun audiences, into their late 70s, 80s, and 90s.  […]

‘Babylon (Is Fallen)’

Posted 9 February 2019 Radio DaysLeave a commentPosted in Protest Songs, Workshops

Radio Days developed and delivered a programme of workshops in the chapel of Brompton Cemetery, Kensington, between April and July 2018 on the history of the protest song, 1381 (i.e. the Peasants’ Revolt) to the present. We’re following up with […]

Vi Subversa, the last of the suffragettes

Posted 29 June 201814 July 2018 Radio DaysPosted in Protest Songs, Suffragettes

For us folks at Radio Days who locate ourselves paradigmatically in the years 1870 to 1939, this post is bound to seem way outside of our usual sphere of interest.  But having spent so many weeks preparing, then performing, the […]

Ronnie Gilbert

Posted 23 June 20184 November 2019 Radio DaysLeave a commentPosted in Protest Songs, Song of the Week, Suffragettes

Malvina Reynolds? Peggy Seeger? Rosalie Sorrels? Dory Previn? Joan Baez? Buffy Sainte-Marie? Judy Collins? Ani Difranco? Certainly some outstanding names there; but no, the most important and most influential female folk singer (and protest singer and political activist) of the […]

“Votes for Women!” procession and performance

Posted 23 June 201824 June 2018 Radio DaysLeave a commentPosted in 1910s, Protest Songs, Suffragettes, Workshops

In pictures … A few photos from the magnificent performance on Thursday evening of our amazing suffragists and suffragettes. The history … A fuller version of the timeline narrated during the procession. How the procession went to plan Further reading […]

Turning the world upside down … in 1891

Posted 15 June 201816 June 2018 Radio DaysLeave a commentPosted in 1890s, Protest Songs, Victorian

What a happy find today! In our recent workshop on political songs of the seventeenth century I had drawn attention to the recurrent trope in writings in this period of “the world turned upside down”, and its numerous sources in […]

From The Happy Farmer via Red Wing to the Union Maid

Posted 13 June 201813 June 2018 Radio DaysLeave a commentPosted in 1900s, Edwardian, Protest Songs, Workshops

A musical feast for you today! Our ‘protest song’ workshop has latterly been rehearsing a new song, Si Kahn‘s They All Sang ‘Bread and Roses’, first recorded in 1990 by American folk singer and political activist Ronnie Gilbert (1926-2015), one […]

Emmeline in Brompton Cemetery and Millicent in Parliament Square

Posted 12 June 201814 June 2018 Radio DaysLeave a commentPosted in 1900s, 1910s, Edwardian, Protest Songs, Workshops

Yesterday late afternoon, following six weeks of workshops and last Friday a banner-making workshop, we had our first rehearsal in Brompton Cemetery for our processional performance on 21st June of Rise Up, Women! commemorating the centenary of partial suffrage for […]

My Old Dutch as protest song?

Posted 27 May 201827 May 2018 Radio DaysLeave a commentPosted in 1890s, Music Hall, Protest Songs

Still busy and semi-obsessed with the Protest Song workshops we’re running at Brompton Cemetery, I’ve been mulling over in my mind whether it makes any sense at all to look to music-hall for protest songs.  The Music Hall was of […]

Chasing yet another wild goose: in search of The Maunding Souldier

Posted 27 May 201814 July 2018 Radio DaysLeave a commentPosted in Protest Songs, Workshops

OK, so I found a protest song, apparently first published in 16291, a begging appeal from a crippled soldier and veteran of the Thirty Years War (1618-1648) that I’d rather like to write into the learning pack of our ‘Protest […]

Song of the Week: Ain’t We Got Fun?

Posted 27 May 201827 May 2018 Radio DaysLeave a commentPosted in 1920s, Protest Songs, Song of the Week

It’s one of those songs that we’ve all known forever. Published in 1921, the lyrics by Raymond B. Egan and Gus Kahn, music by Richard A. Whiting, and recorded here by Gus Van and Joe Schenck, the song had first […]

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