The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #140761 Message #4056043
Posted By: punkfolkrocker
30-May-20 - 11:53 AM
Thread Name: Are racist, but traditional, songs OK?
Subject: RE: Racist songs .... arghhhh!
The Rock Against Racism youth music culture movement was a defining force in the formative years of my generation.. We grew up culturally institutionalised racist in the 1960s and early 70s, but because of Rock Against Racism and the Anti Nazi Leauge, we had our eyes and minds opened in our later teens..
This politicized a significant number of us for the rest of our lives..
In the early 80s the racists fought back with n@zi skinhead OI bands, but multi cultural Two Tone Ska bands won over a greater multitude of UK youth...
But our anonymous GUEST demonstrates the right still fester on, and are now thanks to social media, gaining increasing victories...
The popular songs I grew up with 40 years ago are classics of direct confrontation with racist brainwashing...
I'd hope today's young progressive song writers are strong enough to deal with the tidal wave of new Govt approved xenophobia...
UK & USA youth need to retake culture back from Trump and Johnson..
I'm an old bloke now and don't listen to much new music, so don't know how prevalent openly racist new songs might be...???