Protest Singing, Part 3: Black Lives Matter
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07/16/21 • 58 min
Jacqui and Liz are extremely grateful to their guests for the rich and illuminating discussion of the current state of protest singing within the Black Lives Matter movement. Thank you Micah Hendler, Nikki Nesbary, Caullen Hudson, and Patrice Rhone.
Micah Hendler is a musical changemaker, and covers music and social change for Forbes. He is the founder and artistic director of the Jerusalem Youth Chorus.
Nikki Nesbary is an experienced facilitator, trainer, and program manager. She is a singer and leadership team member with SongRise, a DC-based women's social justice a cappella group.
Caullen Hudson is a filmmaker, activist, and founder of SoapBox productions and organizing. He is a scholar and producer of the feature documentary Chicago Drill ‘n’ Activism, and produces and co-hosts the Bourbon ‘n BrownTown podcast. Check out their Collective Freedom Project, a four-part series highlighting grassroots efforts in Chicago, Atlanta, Texas, and California to fight crimmigration.
In addition to her digital activism, Patrice Rhone is a fashion fanatic, marketing professional, and blogger. She will also be rocking some classic 80s Madonna and Whitney with Jacqui and Liz at our next karaoke party.
Many, many thanks to Buffy Childerhose for help in producing this episode. Their storytelling instincts, interviewing recommendations and social justice background were invaluable.
LINKS
On the march: is communal protest singing poised for a comeback? by Micah Hendler, Jun 13, 2020
Dr. Ysaye M. Barnwell
Marching and Singing with Ysaye Barnwell - Black Lives Matter, YouTube, uploaded Jun 9, 2020
Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXV9c0-JZcg
Lift Every Voice and Sing by the Spellman College Glee Club, YouTube, Feb 28, 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRF9FOPgLpw
Lift Every Voice and Sing by SongRise, Juneteenth Solidarity Sing, YouTube, Premiered Jun 20, 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko9I9d8Zu68
Tupac interview about food in hotel, YouTube, uploaded Dec 29, 2012 (from Tupac: Resurrection)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuBWjhEax3g
This is what protest sounds like by Breeanna Hare, November 19, 2017
https://www.cnn.com/2017/04/20/us/soundtracks-protest-music-evolution/index.html
Anti-maskers, the alt-right, and leftist messaging by Paula Ethans, October 20, 2020
https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/anti-maskers-the-alt-right-and-leftist-messaging
Anti-vaccine protesters are likening themselves to civil rights activists by Mackenzie Mays, Sep 18, 2019
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/18/california-anti-vaccine-civil-rights-1500976
Justice Choir https://www.justicechoir.org/
Kendrick Lamar's "Alright" chanted by protesters during Cleveland police altercation by Jeremy Gordon July 29, 2015
Has Kendrick Lamar recorded the new Black national anthem? by Aisha Harris, Aug 3, 2015
Jacqui and Liz are extremely grateful to their guests for the rich and illuminating discussion of the current state of protest singing within the Black Lives Matter movement. Thank you Micah Hendler, Nikki Nesbary, Caullen Hudson, and Patrice Rhone.
Micah Hendler is a musical changemaker, and covers music and social change for Forbes. He is the founder and artistic director of the Jerusalem Youth Chorus.
Nikki Nesbary is an experienced facilitator, trainer, and program manager. She is a singer and leadership team member with SongRise, a DC-based women's social justice a cappella group.
Caullen Hudson is a filmmaker, activist, and founder of SoapBox productions and organizing. He is a scholar and producer of the feature documentary Chicago Drill ‘n’ Activism, and produces and co-hosts the Bourbon ‘n BrownTown podcast. Check out their Collective Freedom Project, a four-part series highlighting grassroots efforts in Chicago, Atlanta, Texas, and California to fight crimmigration.
In addition to her digital activism, Patrice Rhone is a fashion fanatic, marketing professional, and blogger. She will also be rocking some classic 80s Madonna and Whitney with Jacqui and Liz at our next karaoke party.
Many, many thanks to Buffy Childerhose for help in producing this episode. Their storytelling instincts, interviewing recommendations and social justice background were invaluable.
LINKS
On the march: is communal protest singing poised for a comeback? by Micah Hendler, Jun 13, 2020
Dr. Ysaye M. Barnwell
Marching and Singing with Ysaye Barnwell - Black Lives Matter, YouTube, uploaded Jun 9, 2020
Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXV9c0-JZcg
Lift Every Voice and Sing by the Spellman College Glee Club, YouTube, Feb 28, 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRF9FOPgLpw
Lift Every Voice and Sing by SongRise, Juneteenth Solidarity Sing, YouTube, Premiered Jun 20, 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko9I9d8Zu68
Tupac interview about food in hotel, YouTube, uploaded Dec 29, 2012 (from Tupac: Resurrection)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuBWjhEax3g
This is what protest sounds like by Breeanna Hare, November 19, 2017
https://www.cnn.com/2017/04/20/us/soundtracks-protest-music-evolution/index.html
Anti-maskers, the alt-right, and leftist messaging by Paula Ethans, October 20, 2020
https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/anti-maskers-the-alt-right-and-leftist-messaging
Anti-vaccine protesters are likening themselves to civil rights activists by Mackenzie Mays, Sep 18, 2019
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/18/california-anti-vaccine-civil-rights-1500976
Justice Choir https://www.justicechoir.org/
Kendrick Lamar's "Alright" chanted by protesters during Cleveland police altercation by Jeremy Gordon July 29, 2015
Has Kendrick Lamar recorded the new Black national anthem? by Aisha Harris, Aug 3, 2015
Previous Episode
Protest Singing, Part 2: We Shall Overcome
The books and songs discussed in this episode include:
O Sanctissima performed by the Daughters of Saint Paul, 2010
The Battle Hymn of the Republic by Julia Ward Howe, performed by the Canadian Brass
The History of We Shall Overcome uploaded to YouTube by creator Genie Deez, June 15, 2020
I’ll be Alright performed by The Angelic Gospel Singers
I’ll Be Alright Someday performed by Rev. Gary Davis, reissued 1972
Pete Seeger Talks about the History of We Shall Overcome, uploaded to YouTube by folkarchivist, Dec 29, 2010
We Shall Overcome (Live) performed by Pete Seeger, 1963
We Shall Overcome performed by the Freedom Singers, Sing For Freedom Smithsonian Folkways Recordings (1990)
We Shall Overcome (Live) performed by Mahalia Jackson
The Nashville Sit-In Story from Smithsonian Folkways Recordings (1960) We Shall Overcome, Jail Sequence
We Shall Overcome performed by Peter Yarrow, Mary Travers, Paul Stookey, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Bernice Reagon, Cordell Reagon, Charles Neblett, Rutha Harris, Pete Seeger, and Theodore Bikel, Newport Folk Festival, July 1963
Blowin’ in the Wind by Bob Dylan, performed by Cliff Richards (1966)
Malcolm X, The Ballot or the Bullet, from Say It Plain, Say It Loud: A Century of Great African American Speeches (original recording King Solomon Baptist Church, Detroit, Michigan - April 12, 1964)
We Gonna Be Alright Crowd Chanting, Black Lives Matter, Downtown Los Angeles July 7, 2016 #AltonSterling #PhilandoCastile
Making Movement Sounds: The Cultural Organizing Behind the Freedom Songs of the Civil Rights Movement by Elizabeth Davis-Cooper (2017)
Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:39987965
Sit In, Stand Up and Sing Out!: Black Gospel Music and the Civil Rights Movement by Michael Castellini (2013) Georgia State University
https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/history_theses/76
From Sit-ins to SNCC : The Student Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, edited by Iwan Morgan and Philip Davies. 2014.
Thank you, Buffy Childerhose, for helping to produce this episode, and for the research tips and tricks.
Thanks, as always, to Aaron P and Jeffrey Christian for reviewing the episode.
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