Breath of Revolutions – Music, Poetry and Protest
Compilations of Revolution and Uprising from Palestine, Sudan, Syria, Lebanon, Algeria, Iran, Egypt and Greece
They feature songs, music, poetry, protest chants, speeches, street discussions and theatre clips.
The content we are sharing comes from the past 100 years of social and political struggle. It covers many themes and crosses many genres, and is in many languages, defying dominant languages and the confines of the colonially manufactured nation state.
Some of the content is anti-imperialist and anti-Zionist, a lot of it is anti-capitalist, while other pieces engage with personal and everyday issues of suffering and social control. Some tracks come from musical groups attached to organised collective struggles or political parties of the left. We have mixed them with the chants, speeches and battles of more recent uprisings against dictatorship, corruption and neo-liberal devastation across the various regions.
Many artists have reworked traditional and classical practices into much loved protest songs, and epics. In many of these tracks you will hear the historic hiss of cassette tapes, or a defiant artist and audience at a revolutionary performance of music or poetry.
Others artists use hip hop, or digital/electrical compositions – building consciousness as they sample the work of their elder poets, musicians, feminists, unionists, political prisoners, freedom fighters and intellectuals.
The image used is by Palestinian artist, MOHAMMAD SABAANEH
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