Songs of freedom - Malaysia version
ELECTION fever is sweeping over some states and what fun it is to scroll through the latest trending topics on Twitter and the like. I gave a lecture to my music degree students yesterday about the history of the modern protest song, tracing it back to Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit” and Woody G...
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The Malaysian Insight
2023
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/2503/ https://www.themalaysianinsight.com/index.php/s/452278 |
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| Summary: | ELECTION fever is sweeping over some states and what fun it is to scroll through the latest trending topics on Twitter and the like.
I gave a lecture to my music degree students yesterday about the history of the modern protest song, tracing it back to Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit” and Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land”.
A couple of years back, I presented a paper at a conference in Seoul, South Korea, about “indie protest songs” during the politically fertile era of 2008-2013 and I came up with a list of recent local protest songs you should listen to from that period. |
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