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Labor & Politics - Artists' Homepages
Links to websites of musicians whose emphasis is on labor issues - from Woody
Guthrie, Pete Seeger and Utah Phillips, to contemporary artists like John McCutcheon,
Billy Bragg and Anne Feeney.
Centre
for Political Song - Caledonian University
New site, expecting to be operational in June 2001. Already worth a visit for
its mission statement - and to get that bookmark set to go.
Clearwater
Hudson River Revival
This June festival is known for being long on politics and environmental issues,
with local and national activist groups participating in addition to the music
and many educational activities.
Democratic
Socialists of America: Labor Songs
Need lyrics to "The Internationale," "Joe Hill" or "Help Save the Youth of America"?
About twenty great and classic songs have been collected by the Democratic Socialists
of America.
Detroit
LaborFest
Labor festival has featured Steve Earle, Billy Bragg and others.
Free
Speech
On-line e-zine dealing with free speech and censorship issues - on and off-line.
Liberator
- Peace and Politics New
This British site for "radical liberals" has a few dozen songs - some classics,
many parodies set to familiar tunes. National and world events from a uniquely
English perspective.
Music
of the Detroit Newspaper Strike
(various) Wobblie-style protest songs available as streaming audio or as free
MP3 downloads from this page. New and old classics!
National
Labor Committee
Organization promotes human and workers' rights, fair labor practices and a
living wage in the U.S. and abroad.
National
Museum of Women's History
Songs, documents, memorabilia of the suffragist movement, 1848-1921. RealAudio
versions of "I
Will Speak My Mind If I Die For It," "Taxation
Tyranny," ""Giving
the Ballot to the Mothers," "Yellow
Ribbon," and "Suffrage
Flag."
Union
Songs Best
of the Net - New
Lyrics and MIDI versions of tunes for nearly 100 labor classics - including
The Internationale, Solidarity Forever. From traditional ballads to contemporary
songwriters. The site also has an impressive array of other labor resources.
Created by Mark Gregory.
Union
Webring New
This webring includes nearly 700 labor related websites. Not much music, but
an inexhaustible resource for organizers and musicians in the digital age.
Guthrie,
Woody
Lyrics to many of Guthrie's greatest classics including "This Land Is Your Land,"
"Pastures of Plenty" and "Deportee."
Billy
Bragg
Bragg is the quintessential rough-hewn labor folkie from the UK - brilliant,
daring and politically savvy. England's Woody. His fansites are much better
than the official ones. This one has a great index of info. Join his news
list.
Cohen,
Phil & Patricia Ford
Folk singers and labor organizers from North Carolina. Hard Miles Music. Links
to MP3s.
Feeney,
Anne
Today's Union Maid, Anne is an organizer and hoarder of songs. Someone you'd
want on your picket line. Good links.
Guthrie,
Woody Best
of the Net
Excellent, well-researched site includes lyrics to most of Guthrie's classics
including "This Land Is Your Land," "Deportee" and "Pastures of Plenty."
Gregory,
Mark
Not bad.
Kahn,
Si
One of the best-known labor song writers in the "plain" song school.
McCutcheon,
John
Versatile instrumentalist with strong folk roots, and peace/labor songwriter
. Author of the anti-war classic, "Christmas in the Trenches." Slick
website includes sounds, MP3s and info galore.
Phillips,
Bruce U. Utah
Phillips is a walking, talking history of the labor movement and its songs.
Ani DiFranco has set his monologues to a hiphop backdrop, putting the Wobblie
past back in your face. Site has info on his radio show, CD's, pics and links.
St.
Marie, Buffy
Canadian songwriter known as a writer of political songs ("Universal Soldier")
in the sixties and as a Native American activist and "cyberskin" educator.
Seeger,
Pete
This fan site for folk music's most recognizable living icon is the meatiest.
Includes a list of his original compositions and many of the lyrics.
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