OUR SUBVERSIVE VOICE: 400 YEARS OF PROTEST SONGS

Posted on May 23, 2022 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Community and tagged activism, Alan Finlayson, billy bragg, Bob Vylan, calypso, class war, Dave, Diggers Song, empire, england, Englishness, fascism, featured, folk, Folk Against Fascism, Gerrard Winstanley, Grime, hip-hop, history, hymnals, John Street, long read, Lord Kitchener, Maggie Holland, metal, migrants, music, national identity, nationalism, norwich, Norwich Arts Centre, Our Subversive Voice, petrol girls, political communication, protest, protest songs, punk, reggae, rhetoric, Songs of Hope and Protest, Stormzy, The Common Lot, The Specials, The Young'uns, UEA, uk, windrush.

By Rowan Gavin

Last year, two-tone legends The Specials released an album entitled ‘Protest Songs 1924-2012’. It featured covers of tracks by Bob Marley, Leonard Cohen, Big Bill Broonzy and other legends of protest music – but not one song penned by a British person, despite the band’s Coventry origins. This, UEA Professor John Street tells me, was part of the impetus behind the project Our Subversive Voice: The History and Politics of the English Protest Song.

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FIVE NORWICH BANDS TO WATCH IN 2019

Posted on January 1, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Community, Music That Matters and tagged 2018, 2019, Algiers, arts, bag of cans, boogie, calypso, CHVRCHES, Donnie Darko, east anglia, elctro, featured, Gemini, gemma cullingford, Goblinquest, Jenny Hollingworth, Let's Eat Grandma, list, live music, maria uzor, maya law, MTM, music, music that matters, neo soul, norfolk, norwich, nye, punk, Rosa Walton, Sink Ya teeth, stage, Tibetan Night Terrors, year.

It’s been a great year for music in East Anglia’s Finest City. If you’re a gig-goer, you’ll no doubt have come across some of the many up-and-coming Norwich and Norfolk musicians breathing new life into the local scene these last few months. Here, in no particular order, I’d like to present five of the local acts that have most impressed, entranced, and inspired me in 2018.Continue Reading

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