Our Subversive Voice
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The History and Politics of the English Protest Song, 1600–2020 – a two-year AHRC-funded research project.
University of East Anglia
Joined October 2021
We are just a bit excited to be launched https://t.co/4ZMvu2F3jH today – our project website featuring 750 protest songs across 420 years, many in great detail, and everything from case studies and guest blogs to interviews with the likes of @billybragg
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Ahoy! Anyone in or around London on Fri 27 October – fancy a salon-style concert @ConwayHall ? With chat, drinks, and some of the best music of the 1830s, courtesy of the genius* Eliza Flower and the fab @electricvoice? *Mendelssohn's word, not mine https://t.co/dDDEwronJW
conwayhall.org.uk
Join Electric Voice Theatre and music historian Oskar Jensen for an informal evening of songs, poetry and story-telling at Conway Hall’s historic Library, celebrating the music of Eliza Flower...
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We are delighted to bring you a new post by historian @ArielHessayon of @GoldsmithsUoL It's all about one of the most storied protest songs in English history, The Diggers' Song, and it's here: https://t.co/Bxo9onfdgr
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Today is Eliza Flower's 220th Birthday! To celebrate the life and work of this extraordinary radical composer, we recorded a podcast @ConwayHall, to accompany the first concert devoted to her music since 1846... - Links to both are below – See also
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Good Morning and happy 220th #birthday to Eliza Flower #BornOnThisDay 1803 in #Harlow #Essex Composer Pianist Singer Radical Thinker We have a whole celebration going on https://t.co/uD7jx0iNfC
#Music #Podcast #Performance
#WomenInMusic Give it a whirl and share widely!
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As part of the Early Music @ Newcastle 2023 Festival, here's a short, sharp dose of protest song history – with a Geordie flavour: https://t.co/4t0BYbCpxN
@NclUniMusic @SubversiveSong @ProfAFinlayson @nuact_NCL
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I really can't overstate how exciting this is! First concert devoted to the music of Eliza Flower since 1845, as far as we know – which is criminal, because she's ace, as are @electricvoice... If you're interested, do RT; this deserves to be heard!
"Flowers of Spring - Politics, Power & Poverty" April 4th 7pm https://t.co/Hok1uVpokh Free zoom concert #songs by Eliza Flower (1803-1846) #Flowers #Voices #Music #Spring
#Politics #Activism #Workers #WomenComposers
#VirtualChoir #WomenComposers #WomenInMusic
#WomenPoets
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Londoners listen up!
Two weeks on Wednesday @cecilsharphouse – anyone in London, please do sign up for this talk! Such a great venue and it should be lots of fun; talking and singing Vagabonds and ballad-singers, plus an exclusive book discount code... #twitterstorians @Duckbooks
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They refuse to accept that the #ToryBrexitDisaster is and will continue to damage our beautiful country for decades. Sorry is the hardest word for politicians like Coffey. Therese Coffey booed by #farmers after refusing to accept #foodshortages failure
independent.co.uk
‘We can’t control the weather in Spain’, says enviornment secretary
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Today at 11:30am GMT, BBCR4 – the mercurial Andrew McGibbon presents the final episode of this fab little series on time-travelling songs... (disclaimer: I may be on it) https://t.co/kdI3zXq9l9
@nuact_NCL @NclUniMusic
bbc.co.uk
The story of The House of the Rising Sun as it travelled across time.
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Care about song? Fancy being paid for three years to do a SUPREMELY FUN AND IMPORTANT PhD @NclUniMusic, funded by @nuact_NCL? Or know someone who does? Well, since you're listening... https://t.co/paRZUc6u7o (Retweets much appreciated)
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With cold and rainy weather all around, why not look back to summer 2022 with this record of the Our Subversive Voice protest music project @LatitudeFest. There's singing, shouting - and some decent talking - plus an appearance from the inestimable Laura Bates of @EverydaySexism.
OSV is delighted to share this short film of our Latitude 2022 appearance, courtesy of documentary-maker extraordinaire @JenSShaw: https://t.co/4ysMAumUmA Also at
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this is EPIC! I wish I'd seen it does anyone have a video, a future date please? look at the logo on the violinist's mask @ArtNotOil # @JustStop__Oil
OSV greets the new year with a deeply good bit of thinking by composer and activist @UriAgnon on 'indeterminate music' – writing pieces that make the performers' actions matter. Also on smuggling violins into the British Museum for a rowdy protest... https://t.co/dnlsJOjPL3
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OSV greets the new year with a deeply good bit of thinking by composer and activist @UriAgnon on 'indeterminate music' – writing pieces that make the performers' actions matter. Also on smuggling violins into the British Museum for a rowdy protest... https://t.co/dnlsJOjPL3
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OSV is delighted to share this short film of our Latitude 2022 appearance, courtesy of documentary-maker extraordinaire @JenSShaw: https://t.co/4ysMAumUmA Also at
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Here's our second update of the new year: a really warm and absorbing interview with song collector and protest songwriter Jake Glanville: https://t.co/rT3yHDHuBw
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Interesting list of ‘top 10’ 2022 protest albums via @shadowproofcom. Good to find UK music: @BobbyVylan (the excellent Price of Life LP) & Scotland's @Ashenspire_ "sonic exploration" of hostile architecture. One for @SubversiveSong to RT. https://t.co/V3VMOlL8Cb
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Can our musical choices resonate outside the concert hall? I wrote for the excellent @SubversiveSong about indeterminate music & activism, looking at performers' choices in a @dropbp protest-performance and in the @SUSOrchestra commissioned 'Or Never'. https://t.co/ctSLHCDhfs
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OSV greets the new year with a deeply good bit of thinking by composer and activist @UriAgnon on 'indeterminate music' – writing pieces that make the performers' actions matter. Also on smuggling violins into the British Museum for a rowdy protest... https://t.co/dnlsJOjPL3
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Sent to the team by the @SubversiveSong master, the inimitable John Street by the mistress of protest song @gracepetrie - https://t.co/xGNIHKXGf9
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Here's a version of Good King Wenceslas that we'd like to dedicate today to @theRCN, @RMTunion, @ucu colleagues & all those fighting for fair deals in tough times #inthebleak
#SupportTheStrikes #RCNStrike #NursesStrike #StandByYourPost #UCUrising #SupportRailWorkers #Solidarity
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I'm about to make a big order for our university library catalogue! Have you or a colleague written a kickass academic monograph in the past five years? Make your recommendations here and I'll add them to my wish list!
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