Nina Simone, cantora, pianista e compositora bem conhecida, foi militante anti-apartheid, e escreveu esta canção depois do assassinato de Luther King. Ela que desconfiava nos anos 60 da estratégia de "não-violência" na luta pelos direitos civis dos negros norte-americanos (com Malcom X), homenageia aqui aquele que defendeu sempre que se devia "dar a outra face".
segunda-feira, 27 de setembro de 2010
Prison song
Outra canção da prisão, esta do compositor alemão Hans Werner Henze. Escrita em 1971 e inspirada no diário da prisão de Ho Chi Min.
Henze é um caso aparte. É considerado um dos mais importantes compositores alemães do século XX. É vivo ainda - tem 84 anos.
Henze é um caso aparte. É considerado um dos mais importantes compositores alemães do século XX. É vivo ainda - tem 84 anos.
Estão a tentar construir uma prisão
System of a Down (SOAD) foi uma banda de metal armeno-americana formada em Glendale, Califórnia em 1994. É composta por Serj Tankian (vocais, teclados), Daron Malakian (guitarra, vocais), Shavo Odadjian (baixo) e John Dolmayan (bateria).
O percurso interropeu-se em 2006.
Esta "Prison song", denúncia do sistema prisional americano, é do álbum Toxicity, de 2001, altura em que a banda atinge grande sucesso.
Theyre trying to build a prison
Theyre trying to build a prison
Following the rights movement
You clamped on with your iron fists
Drugs became conveniently
Available for all the kids
Following the rights movement
You clamped on with your iron fists
Drugs became conveniently
Available for all the kids
I buy my crack, I smack my bitch
Right here in hollywood
(nearly 2 million americans are
Incarcerated in the prison system
Prison system of the us)
Theyre trying to build a prison
Theyre trying to build a prison
Theyre trying to build a prison
(for you and me to live in)
Another prison system
Another prison system
Another prison system
(for you and me to live in)
Minor drug offenders fill your prisons
You dont even flinch
All our taxes paying for your wars
Against the new non-rich
Minor drug offenders fill your prisons
You dont even flinch
All our taxes paying for your wars
Against the new non-rich
I buy my crack, I smack my bitch
Right here in hollywood
The percentage of americans in the prison system
Prison system, has doubled since 1985
Theyre trying to build a prison
Theyre trying to build a prison
Theyre trying to build a prison
(for you and me to live in)
Another prison system
Another prison system
Another prison system
For you and i, for you and i, for you and i.
Theyre trying to build a prison
Theyre trying to build a prison
Theyre trying to build a prison
For you and me
Oh baby, you and me.
All research and successful drug policy show
That treatment should be increased
And law enforcement decreased
While abolishing mandatory minimun sentences
All research and successful drug policy show
That treatment should be increased
And law enforcement decreased
While abolishing mandatory minimun sentences
Utilising drugs to pay for secret wars around the world
Drugs are now your global policy now you police the globe
I buy my crack, I smack my bitch
Right here in hollywood
Drug money is used to rig elections
And train brutal corporate sponsored dictators
Around the world
Theyre trying to build a prison
Theyre trying to build a prison
Theyre trying to build a prison
(for you and me to live in)
Another prison system
Another prison system
Another prison system
(for you and me to live in)
For you and i, for you and i, for you and i
For you and i
Theyre trying to build a prison
Theyre trying to build a prison
Theyre trying to build a prison
For you and me
Oh baby, you and me
O percurso interropeu-se em 2006.
Esta "Prison song", denúncia do sistema prisional americano, é do álbum Toxicity, de 2001, altura em que a banda atinge grande sucesso.
Theyre trying to build a prison
Theyre trying to build a prison
Following the rights movement
You clamped on with your iron fists
Drugs became conveniently
Available for all the kids
Following the rights movement
You clamped on with your iron fists
Drugs became conveniently
Available for all the kids
I buy my crack, I smack my bitch
Right here in hollywood
(nearly 2 million americans are
Incarcerated in the prison system
Prison system of the us)
Theyre trying to build a prison
Theyre trying to build a prison
Theyre trying to build a prison
(for you and me to live in)
Another prison system
Another prison system
Another prison system
(for you and me to live in)
Minor drug offenders fill your prisons
You dont even flinch
All our taxes paying for your wars
Against the new non-rich
Minor drug offenders fill your prisons
You dont even flinch
All our taxes paying for your wars
Against the new non-rich
I buy my crack, I smack my bitch
Right here in hollywood
The percentage of americans in the prison system
Prison system, has doubled since 1985
Theyre trying to build a prison
Theyre trying to build a prison
Theyre trying to build a prison
(for you and me to live in)
Another prison system
Another prison system
Another prison system
For you and i, for you and i, for you and i.
Theyre trying to build a prison
Theyre trying to build a prison
Theyre trying to build a prison
For you and me
Oh baby, you and me.
All research and successful drug policy show
That treatment should be increased
And law enforcement decreased
While abolishing mandatory minimun sentences
All research and successful drug policy show
That treatment should be increased
And law enforcement decreased
While abolishing mandatory minimun sentences
Utilising drugs to pay for secret wars around the world
Drugs are now your global policy now you police the globe
I buy my crack, I smack my bitch
Right here in hollywood
Drug money is used to rig elections
And train brutal corporate sponsored dictators
Around the world
Theyre trying to build a prison
Theyre trying to build a prison
Theyre trying to build a prison
(for you and me to live in)
Another prison system
Another prison system
Another prison system
(for you and me to live in)
For you and i, for you and i, for you and i
For you and i
Theyre trying to build a prison
Theyre trying to build a prison
Theyre trying to build a prison
For you and me
Oh baby, you and me
de Hamletmaschine
texto de Heiner Müller
música de Eistürzende Neubauten
Aqui fala Electra. No coração das trevas. Sob o sol da tortura. Para as metrópoles
do mundo. Em nome das vítimas. Rejeito todo o sémen que recebi. Transformo o
leite dos meus peitos em veneno mortal. Renego o mundo que pari. Sufoco o
mundo que pari entre minhas coxas. Eu enterro-o na minha vagina. Abaixo a
felicidade da submissão. Viva o ódio, o desprezo, a insurreição, a morte. Quando
ela atravessar os vossos dormitórios com facas de carniceiro, conhecereis a verdade.
música de Eistürzende Neubauten
Aqui fala Electra. No coração das trevas. Sob o sol da tortura. Para as metrópoles
do mundo. Em nome das vítimas. Rejeito todo o sémen que recebi. Transformo o
leite dos meus peitos em veneno mortal. Renego o mundo que pari. Sufoco o
mundo que pari entre minhas coxas. Eu enterro-o na minha vagina. Abaixo a
felicidade da submissão. Viva o ódio, o desprezo, a insurreição, a morte. Quando
ela atravessar os vossos dormitórios com facas de carniceiro, conhecereis a verdade.
quinta-feira, 23 de setembro de 2010
what's wrong and how to fix it
"I think real folk stuff scares most of the boys around Washington. A folk song is whats wrong and how to fix it, or it could be whose hungry and where their mouth is or whose out of work and where the job is or whose broke and where the money is or whose carrying a gun and where the peace is - that's folk lore and folks made it up because they seen that the politicians couldn't find nothing to fix or nobody to feed or give a job of work."
Carta de Woody Guthrie a Alan Lomax, 19 de Setembro de 1940
Carta de Woody Guthrie a Alan Lomax, 19 de Setembro de 1940
sexta-feira, 17 de setembro de 2010
Only a pawn in their game
Medgar Evers, combatente anti-apartheid americano, foi morto em 1963 por um membro do Klu Klux Klan. O assassino foi escandalosamente libertado em 1964 depois de 2 sucessivos julgamentos-farsa. Bob Dylan fez nesse ano esta música, da mesma altura de "The times they are a'changing", como se percebe até pela melodia, com óbvias semelhanças. O assassino foi finalmente condenado, mas só 30 anos depois, em 1994, depois de uma reabertura do processo com base em novas provas. Enfim, um pouco de justiça.
Only a pawn in their game 1963 - MyVideo
A letra:
"Only A Pawn In Their Game"
A bullet from the back of a bush took Medgar Evers' blood
A finger fired the trigger to his name
A handle hid out in the dark
A hand set the spark
Two eyes took the aim
Behind a man's brain
But he can't be blamed
He's only a pawn in their game.
A South politician preaches to the poor white man
"You got more than blacks, don't complain
You're better than them, you been born with white skin" they explain
And the Negro's name
Is used it is plain
For the politician's gain
As he rises to fame
And the poor white remains
On the caboose of the train
But it ain't him to blame
He's only a pawn in their game.
The deputy sheriffs, the soldiers, the governors get paid
And the marshals and cops get the same
But the poor white man's used in the hands of them all like a tool
He's taught in his school
From the start by the rule
That the laws are with him
To protect his white skin
To keep up his hate
So he never thinks straight
'Bout the shape that he's in
But it ain't him to blame
He's only a pawn in their game.
From the powerty shacks, he looks from the cracks to the tracks
And the hoof beats pound in his brain
And he's taught how to walk in a pack
Shoot in the back
With his fist in a clinch
To hang and to lynch
To hide 'neath the hood
To kill with no pain
Like a dog on a chain
He ain't got no name
But it ain't him to blame
He's only a pawn in their game.
Today, Medgar Evers was buried from the bullet he caught
They lowered him down as a king
But when the shadowy sun sets on the one
That fired the gun
He'll see by his grave
On the stone that remains
Carved next to his name
His epitaph plain:
Only a pawn in their game.
Only a pawn in their game 1963 - MyVideo
A letra:
"Only A Pawn In Their Game"
A bullet from the back of a bush took Medgar Evers' blood
A finger fired the trigger to his name
A handle hid out in the dark
A hand set the spark
Two eyes took the aim
Behind a man's brain
But he can't be blamed
He's only a pawn in their game.
A South politician preaches to the poor white man
"You got more than blacks, don't complain
You're better than them, you been born with white skin" they explain
And the Negro's name
Is used it is plain
For the politician's gain
As he rises to fame
And the poor white remains
On the caboose of the train
But it ain't him to blame
He's only a pawn in their game.
The deputy sheriffs, the soldiers, the governors get paid
And the marshals and cops get the same
But the poor white man's used in the hands of them all like a tool
He's taught in his school
From the start by the rule
That the laws are with him
To protect his white skin
To keep up his hate
So he never thinks straight
'Bout the shape that he's in
But it ain't him to blame
He's only a pawn in their game.
From the powerty shacks, he looks from the cracks to the tracks
And the hoof beats pound in his brain
And he's taught how to walk in a pack
Shoot in the back
With his fist in a clinch
To hang and to lynch
To hide 'neath the hood
To kill with no pain
Like a dog on a chain
He ain't got no name
But it ain't him to blame
He's only a pawn in their game.
Today, Medgar Evers was buried from the bullet he caught
They lowered him down as a king
But when the shadowy sun sets on the one
That fired the gun
He'll see by his grave
On the stone that remains
Carved next to his name
His epitaph plain:
Only a pawn in their game.
O ângulo morto
Aqui está o rock e o hip-hop de Zone Libre, "no cruzamento dos contrários". Um vídeo curioso, com imagens de filmes de Marker, Debord, Payne (sobre os Panteras Negras), Toivonen e Ladj Ly, que se mete deliberadamente no meio da acção e da luta:
L'ANGLE MORT - Zone Libre VS Casey Hamé/La Rumeur- LE CLIP
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L'ANGLE MORT - Zone Libre VS Casey Hamé/La Rumeur- LE CLIP
Carregado por elmadj. - Ver os últimos vídeos de musica em destaque
Dans nos histoires (nas nossas histórias)
Casey é "rappeuse". Trabalha regularmente com Anfalsh e La Rumeur, dois dos grupos mais importantes do rap francês dos últimos anos. Ela faz parte também do projecto Zone Libre que cruza rock e o hiphop de forma bastante incomum. É francesa, filha de uma família de emigrantes da Martinica. Neste tema de 2006, Casey (Cathy Palenne) põe em relação a actualidade social e política com o passado esclavagista e colonialista. As imagens ajudam à violenta denúncia e põem o presente (uma menina) a ler o passado (um livro).
quinta-feira, 2 de setembro de 2010
Megafone
Megafone vem do grego: megas, "grande" e fone, "voz". É um aparelho em forma de cone utilizado para amplificar sons. A sua principal qualidade é não necessitar de um sistema de som completo com microfone ou altifalante. Para além disso é portátil.
Muitas vezes, os megafones são utilizados em manifestações, eventos desportivos, anúncios, etc. Nos filmes, aparecem muitas vezes nas mãos de polícias ou bombeiros que necessitam de comunicar com alguém à distância.
A maioria dos megafones actuais são elétricos, com um pequeno amplificador alimentado por uma bateria.
Na foto, a banda Farra Fanfarra, num concerto contra a precariedade laboral em Lisboa em 2008. Não sei quem fez a fotografia.
Muitas vezes, os megafones são utilizados em manifestações, eventos desportivos, anúncios, etc. Nos filmes, aparecem muitas vezes nas mãos de polícias ou bombeiros que necessitam de comunicar com alguém à distância.
A maioria dos megafones actuais são elétricos, com um pequeno amplificador alimentado por uma bateria.
Na foto, a banda Farra Fanfarra, num concerto contra a precariedade laboral em Lisboa em 2008. Não sei quem fez a fotografia.
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