In the second episode of our "music and politics" miniseries, Tami Gadir talks to John Street, Emeritus Professor of Politics at the University of East Anglia (UK), about his AHRC project "Our subversive voice: the history and politics of the English protest song". After discussing this 400-year history, John also addresses to what extent culture has political utility, and whether the cultural turn was a reasonable or reactionary response to the as-yet-unfulfilled promise of revolution.
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One year on: What’s the point of Labor?
Imperialism and Ukraine: NATO’s proxy war in Europe
Music and politics: Hip hop, hippies and the homeless
Climate, capitalism and catastrophe
No to war: Australia, China and the new imperialism
Has enterprise bargaining killed the right to strike?
The Palestine Laboratory
Is Putin all-powerful?
In defence of drag queen story time
Music and politics: dance music
Inflation, crisis and the world economy
Spain 1936: when anarchism failed
Why universities should boycott Israel
Red in the rainbow – sex, gender and the system
Labor’s climate cover-up
Trotsky and the Chinese revolution
Crisis and revolt in the Middle East
Unions: building rank-and-file power
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