Our Subversive Voice

The History and Politics of the English Protest Song, 1600–2020 – a two-year AHRC-funded research project.

[Our Subversive Voice @SubversiveSong]

We are just a bit excited to be launched https://t.co/4ZMvu2F3jH today – our project website featuring 750 protest songs across 420 years, many in great detail, and everything from case studies and guest blogs to interviews with the likes of @billybragg

[Oskar Jensen @OskarCoxJensen]

Ahoy! Anyone in or around London on Fri 27 October – fancy a salon-style concert @ConwayHall ? With chat, drinks, and some of the best music of the 1830s, courtesy of the genius* Eliza Flower and the fab @electricvoice?

*Mendelssohn's word, not mine

https://t.co/dDDEwronJW

[Our Subversive Voice @SubversiveSong]

We are delighted to bring you a new post by historian @ArielHessayon of @GoldsmithsUoL

It's all about one of the most storied protest songs in English history, The Diggers' Song, and it's here:

https://t.co/Bxo9onfdgr

[Oskar Jensen @OskarCoxJensen]

Today is Eliza Flower's 220th Birthday! To celebrate the life and work of this extraordinary radical composer, we recorded a podcast @ConwayHall, to accompany the first concert devoted to her music since 1846...

- Links to both are below

– See also https://t.co/ykEmSDWBz9

[Oskar Jensen @OskarCoxJensen]

As part of the Early Music @ Newcastle 2023 Festival, here's a short, sharp dose of protest song history – with a Geordie flavour:

https://t.co/4t0BYbCpxN

@NclUniMusic @SubversiveSong @ProfAFinlayson @nuact_NCL

[Oskar Jensen @OskarCoxJensen]

I really can't overstate how exciting this is!

First concert devoted to the music of Eliza Flower since 1845, as far as we know – which is criminal, because she's ace, as are @electricvoice...

If you're interested, do RT; this deserves to be heard!

[Our Subversive Voice @SubversiveSong]

Londoners listen up!

[Oskar Jensen @OskarCoxJensen]

Two weeks on Wednesday @cecilsharphouse – anyone in London, please do sign up for this talk! Such a great venue and it should be lots of fun; talking and singing Vagabonds and ballad-singers, plus an exclusive book discount code... #twitterstorians @Duckbooks

[Gina Miller @thatginamiller]

They refuse to accept that the #ToryBrexitDisaster is and will continue to damage our beautiful country for decades.

Sorry is the hardest word for politicians like Coffey.

Therese Coffey booed by #farmers after refusing to accept #foodshortages failure https://t.co/e0PhCzsMj1

[Oskar Jensen @OskarCoxJensen]

Today at 11:30am GMT, BBCR4 – the mercurial Andrew McGibbon presents the final episode of this fab little series on time-travelling songs...

(disclaimer: I may be on it)

https://t.co/kdI3zXq9l9

@nuact_NCL @NclUniMusic

[Oskar Jensen @OskarCoxJensen]

Care about song? Fancy being paid for three years to do a SUPREMELY FUN AND IMPORTANT PhD @NclUniMusic, funded by @nuact_NCL? Or know someone who does? Well, since you're listening...

https://t.co/paRZUc6u7o

(Retweets much appreciated)

[Alan Finlayson @ProfAFinlayson]

With cold and rainy weather all around, why not look back to summer 2022 with this record of the Our Subversive Voice protest music project @LatitudeFest. There's singing, shouting - and some decent talking - plus an appearance from the inestimable Laura Bates of @EverydaySexism.

[Six Pillars @6Pillars]

this is EPIC!
I wish I'd seen it does anyone have a video, a future date please? look at the logo on the violinist's mask
@ArtNotOil # @JustStop__Oil

[Our Subversive Voice @SubversiveSong]

OSV greets the new year with a deeply good bit of thinking by composer and activist @UriAgnon on 'indeterminate music' – writing pieces that make the performers' actions matter. Also on smuggling violins into the British Museum for a rowdy protest...

https://t.co/dnlsJOjPL3

[Our Subversive Voice @SubversiveSong]

OSV is delighted to share this short film of our Latitude 2022 appearance, courtesy of documentary-maker extraordinaire @JenSShaw:

https://t.co/4ysMAumUmA

Also at https://t.co/doPIRxV4K4

[Our Subversive Voice @SubversiveSong]

Here's our second update of the new year: a really warm and absorbing interview with song collector and protest songwriter Jake Glanville:

https://t.co/rT3yHDHuBw

[Alan Finlayson @ProfAFinlayson]

Interesting list of ‘top 10’ 2022 protest albums via @shadowproofcom. Good to find UK music: @BobbyVylan (the excellent Price of Life LP) & Scotland's @Ashenspire_ "sonic exploration" of hostile architecture. One for @SubversiveSong to RT.
https://t.co/V3VMOlL8Cb

[Uri Agnon @UriAgnon]

Can our musical choices resonate outside the concert hall?
I wrote for the excellent @SubversiveSong about indeterminate music & activism, looking at performers' choices in a @dropbp protest-performance and in the @SUSOrchestra commissioned 'Or Never'.

https://t.co/ctSLHCDhfs

[Our Subversive Voice @SubversiveSong]

OSV greets the new year with a deeply good bit of thinking by composer and activist @UriAgnon on 'indeterminate music' – writing pieces that make the performers' actions matter. Also on smuggling violins into the British Museum for a rowdy protest...

https://t.co/dnlsJOjPL3

[Dr Angela McShane @angela_mcshane]

Sent to the team by the @SubversiveSong master, the inimitable John Street by the mistress of protest song @gracepetrie -https://t.co/xGNIHKXGf9

[Dr Angela McShane @angela_mcshane]

@SubversiveSong

[Dr. Erin Weinberg @TheBardolator]

I'm about to make a big order for our university library catalogue! Have you or a colleague written a kickass academic monograph in the past five years? Make your recommendations here and I'll add them to my wish list!