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  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todayEnglish
    12·
    17 hours ago

    I’m an old musician, who remembers the role that musicians played in the Vietnam War Resistance. The current population music industry would never allow their artists to be so openly resistant today.

    So I’ve been looking for music to revive, and create a soundtrack for the growing resistance. This might be a good one.

    It’s also time to revive all those good old protest folk songs by Woody Guthrie and the like. Songs like This Land Is Your Land.

    • CaptDust@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      15 hours ago

      The current population music industry would never allow their artists to be so openly resistant today.

      Bands like Rise Against and System of a Down got a lot of air time around the Iraq war, and could go back to 90s with Rage against the Machine and the late punk bands - but I’ve definitely precieved an industry shift towards promoting music that celebrates apathy and embracing futility in recent years.

      • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todayEnglish
        2·
        15 hours ago

        One of my favorites is Stephen Foster’s Hard Times, Come Again No More (1873):

        ‘Tis the song, the sigh of the weary;

        Hard Times, Hard Times, come again no more:

        Many days you have lingered around my cabin door;

        Oh! Hard Times, come again no more.

        While we seek mirth and beauty and music light and gay

        There are frail forms fainting at the door:

        Though their voices are silent, their pleading looks will say –

        Oh! Hard times, come again no more.

        Let us pause in life’s pleasures and count its many tears

        While we all sup sorrow with the poor:

        There’s a song that will linger forever in our ears;

        Oh! Hard Times, come again no more.

        ‘Tis the song, the sigh of the weary;

        Hard Times, Hard Times, come again no more:

        Many days you have lingered around my cabin door;

        Oh! Hard Times, come again no more.

        There’s a pale drooping maiden who toils her life away

        With a worn heart whose better days are o’er:

        Though her voice would be merry, ’tis sighing all the day –

        Oh! Hard Times, come again no more.

        ‘Tis the song, the sigh of the weary;

        Hard Times, Hard Times, come again no more:

        Many days have lingered around my cab in door;

        Oh! Hard Times, come again no more.

        ‘Tis a sigh that is wafted across the troubled wave,

        ‘ Tis a wail that is heard upon the shore,

        ‘ Tis a dirge that is murmured around the lowly grave, –

        Oh! Hard Times, come again no more.

        ‘Tis the song, the sigh of the weary;

        Hard Times, Hard Times, come again no more:

        Many days you have lingered around my cabin door;

        Oh! Hard Times, come again no more.