What does rap tell us of social change and conflict in the French Republic? Paroma Ghose explores how its themes reveal a socio-political conversation with the state.
Tag: music
Remembering 1968: May ’68 and The Stone Roses’ The Stone Roses
Ian Gwinn on the ways the Stone Roses encountered an earlier generation of counterculture.
Walls Come Tumbling Down: The Music and Politics of Rock Against Racism, 2 Tone and Red Wedge
The mood on the streets of British cities before and after the epoch-changing rise of Rock Against Racism.
Radical Objects: ‘Topic Songbook’
Alan Dein writes of his discovery of a ‘Topic Songbook’ from the 1950s, and its window into the Socialist century
