Our Subversive Voice: The History and Politics of the English Protest Song
- Link
- oursubversivevoice.com
- Status
- active
- How they describe themselves
- digital collection
- Blurb
- We are investigating the use of song to register protest through the ages, from 1600 to 2020. The core of the website is its database of 750 protest songs from 1600–2020, of which 250 are showcased as the most distinctive and important. These are the ‘curated’ songs you will see by default. We have kept in basic information about the other 500 to allow you to explore further. A number of these are more debatable as ‘English’, ‘protest’ – or even ‘songs’! The 750 were chosen by the project team with help from fifty-five contributing experts.
We are not simply documenting these songs. We want to show how and why music, in the form of song, has been used as a type of political communication. For us, each protest song need to be understood as part of a specific political and musical moment, mediated by multiple processes and possibilities. This subtler story is essential to understanding why and when musicians have intervened and continue to intervene in politics, and the form taken by these interventions. - Creator(s)
- John Street, Oskar Cox Jensen, Alan Finlayson, Angela McShane, Matthew Worley, Helen Stokes
- Steward(s)
- University of East Anglia