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#BillyBragg

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Leo<p>Billy Bragg ci va giù leggero:</p><p>«I media mainstream riportano che Trump, citando Napoleone in questo tweet* che ha postato oggi, sta mostrando ancora una volta le sue tendenze fasciste, ma io credo che sia molto più pericoloso. Questo tweet potrebbe essere lo slogan degli insorti del 6 gennaio o l'autogiustificazione di ogni terrorista che abbia mai attaccato obiettivi civili. <br>Trump non sta citando Napoleone, ma Anders Breivik».</p><p>* Il tweet: He who saves his country does not violate any law</p><p><a href="https://puntarella.party/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://puntarella.party/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://puntarella.party/tags/BillyBragg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BillyBragg</span></a></p>
Gelamarina<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ruhrpott.social/@Matze" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Matze</span></a></span> <br>Ein Mann, eine Gitarre. Stabil sein ganzes Leben lang. <br><a href="https://norden.social/tags/billybragg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>billybragg</span></a><br><a href="https://norden.social/tags/allyoufascistsboundtolose" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>allyoufascistsboundtolose</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/SFPL97m2dsw?si=iws8nG1aoLKQ3Vj2" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/SFPL97m2dsw?si=iws8nG</span><span class="invisible">1aoLKQ3Vj2</span></a></p>
Peter Kisner ≈<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Natasha_Jay</span></a></span> </p><p>I confronted her about it. I said, "I'm the most illegible bachelor in town."</p><p>And she said, "Yeah. That's why I can never understand any of those silly letters you send me."</p><p><a href="https://dice.camp/tags/BillyBragg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BillyBragg</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/WalkAwayRenee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WalkAwayRenee</span></a></p>
dlundh<p>Some sunday music. <a href="https://social.horrorhub.club/tags/billybragg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>billybragg</span></a> <a href="https://social.horrorhub.club/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>music</span></a> <a href="https://social.horrorhub.club/tags/physicalmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>physicalmedia</span></a></p>
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Jon Hancock

Read an ebook sample of this earlier in the week, then found a secondhand copy of the hardback so I could read the rest.

Skiffle, that oddly British post-war bridge to rock and roll and pop, tends to get short shrift in musical discussions, probably because so many of the major stars of the sixties who started out in youthful skiffle groups saw it as suddenly desperately uncool and were keen to distance themselves from the scene. The sample, a surprisingly generous one offering several chapters, made it clear that Bragg wasn't going to treat it as an embarrassment or a novelty, tracing its origins from early New Orleans jazz and the British teens who became obsessed with that, up through the spread of live jug-style bands at a time when the average British kid was hard pressed to afford a proper musical instrument; and of course, without skiffle there wouldn't have been The Beatles.

"You can’t be Elvis if you’re British, but you can be Lonnie Donegan" – Van Morrison

Photo of a hardback book. Cover had a pale green rectangle at the top, a narrow red rectangle at the bottom, and a black and white photograph between the two, all surrounded by white borders. Photograph shows a group of young men passing, guitar, washboard, tub bass and similar instruments, surrounded by a smiling audience. Text: BILLY BRAGG - ROOTS, RADICALS AND ROCKERS - How Skiffle Changed the World
#BillyBragg#Skiffle#Books
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MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History November 19, 1915: Joe Hill, IWW organizer and song writer was executed by a Utah firing squad after being convicted of murder on trumped-up charges. His final message from prison was “Don’t mourn, Organize!” His ashes were supposedly sprinkled in every state of the union, except Utah, because he had said, "I don't want to be found dead in Utah." They were also sprinkled in Canada, Sweden, Australia and Canada. Some of his most famous songs were “The Preacher and the Slave,” “The Rebel Girl,” “There is Power in a Union,” “Casey Jones, the Union Scab,” and “Mr. Block.” In 1988, an envelope containing his remaining ashes was discovered. Abbie Hoffman suggested that folksinger Billy Bragg should consume them and he supposedly did, washed down, of course, with copious union beer.

Linocut print (1979) depicting Joe Hill, by famed IWW artist Carlos Cortez. His story is told in brief at the top of the poster, alongside the address of the IWW. He holds a paper reading 'If we workers take a notion, we can stop all speeding trains, every ship upon the ocean, we can tie with mighty chains, every wheel in the creation, every mine and every mill, fleets and armies of all nations well at our command stand still'.
#workingclass#LaborHistory#IWW
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Christine Malec

just home from my first ever #BillyBragg show, my heart is bursting! I didn't know his music well, wasn't expecting his charisma. Here are some unforgettable quotes, and these were from between songs! "Music can't change the world, but it can make you believe that the world can be changed." "Music can help us kick cynicism to the kerb." "Music can make you feel empathy, and empathy is what they don't want us to feel, because then we'll recognize that socialism is organized compassion."

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