Forwarded from IWW
"What exactly do you like about country music? Is it the harmonies, twang and heatbreak that brought you here? Or was it a myth. A myth that tells us country music is patriotic music, that it’s the product of cowboys around campfires and not from chain gangs and cotton mills and sweaty dancefloors...that it’s a genre made for some but not for everyone...That siding with power, and religion, and money is the role of songs with fiddle and banjo in them. This post is an oversimplification, it’s a tale better told by people who aren’t me, but it’s as close to a mission statement as I’ll ever write. I yodel because I give a shit, and I someday, hope you will too. Written and illustrated by me, share if you’d like, I love your ass even if you hate my guts for this 🖤🙏🏼✨🐍 "
- Nick Shoulders
- Nick Shoulders
Forwarded from Black Gay Space News
The FBI’s War on Folk Music
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/11/fbi-folk-singers-bureau-cpusa-communism-guthrie/
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/11/fbi-folk-singers-bureau-cpusa-communism-guthrie/
Jacobinmag
The FBI’s War on Folk Music
The anti-communist campaigns of the late 1940s attacked the Left on every front. As beacons of a broad-based cultural radicalism and messengers for change, American folk singers quickly found themselves in the FBI’s crosshairs.
Forwarded from /r/latestagecapitalism