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Revision as of 09:34, 10 November 2010
Music and Politics: hegemony, and resistance
Distinguish:
- music of hegemony and music of resistance
- explicitly political and implicitly political
- the music of politics and the politics of music
Contents
Music and nationalism
- Muhammad Fawzy (Frishkopf article)
Shaykh Imam
This Egyptian singer (b. 1918), raised in the singer-shaykh tradition, became Egypt's most well-known political singer after 1962, in collaboration with poet Ahmed Fu'ad Negm.
Song: "Guevara Died"
(composed 1967: Ahmed Fu'ad Negm and Shaykh Imam). Performed by contemporary revival group Eskanderalla.
Guevara has died, Guevara has died
Late-breaking news, all the radios cried
And in the churches
And the mosques
In the alleys
And the streets
In cafes and the bars:
Guevara has died
Guevara has died
Voices ply endless ropes of speech...
Paragon of fighters, now dead and gone
Aah, sign a hundred for the loss of men!
In thickets deep the young swain perished
still atop his firing gun
Dead and giving body to his fight
He did it all in silence
No drummers explode in ragged sound
No communique goes sailing round
What do you think (your wealth and might live long!),
You antique and twisted gnomes?
Your bodies oozing, fed so well
On tasty morsels and trappings
You, sitting comfy, cozily warm
Tho' firing up your heaters still:
Garish showy dopes
With your polished nodding pates...
Song: "O Palestinians" (1968)
0 Palestinians, the fusilier has shot you
With Zionism which kills the doves that live under your protection
0Palestinians, I want to come and be with you, weapons in hand
And I want my hands to go down with yours to smash the snake's head
And then Hulagu's law will die
0 Palestinians, exile has lasted so long
That the desert is moaning from the refugees and the victims
And the land remains nostalgic for its peasants who watered it
Revolution is the goal, and victory shall be your first step
Music and Palestine
- Palestinian rap group DAM
Generation after generation will live in the hope of realizing our dream
As what we say today we will be called to account for throughout our lifetime
It is possible that the darkness of night
May render us far from one another, but
The beam of light can
Reach the farthest of skies
This has been our dream
All of our lives:
An embrace that will contain us all together
Marcel Khalife
Musical activism, musical controversy
Political songs, in collaboration with Mahmoud Darwish (Voyageur)
Music and freedom of expression: "I am Joseph, oh my father"
Criticism from the left: politics of musical aesthetics (Colla, Elliott and Robert Blecher. (1996) A New World Order, a New Marcel Khalife. Middle East Report, No. 199, Turkey: Insolvent Ideologies, Fractured State. (Apr. - Jun., 1996), pp. 43-44.)
Politics and videoclips
Everyone please insert a Youtube video link here - to be watched and discussed on Thursday Nov 18. You can select clips to be analyzed for nationalistic sentiment, or select those which address political themes explicitly. I realize not knowing Arabic may be an impediment, but you can discuss based on imagery, or you may find clips with translations included. Try searching for "Arab political music". You'll learn a lot by reading the clip's comments (if they're in English).
Some artists associated with political material:
- Palestinian rap group DAM
- Egyptian shaabi star Shaaban Abdel Rahim
- Marcel Khalife
