Barricade Sounds
Music and May 68
Grégory Pierrot author Josh MacPhee author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Common Notions
Publishing:28th Jan '27
£17.99
This title is due to be published on 28th January, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
In this short, graphic volume, Josh MacPhee explores the role of music and sound in the student and worker revolt on May 1968 in France through the lens of the vinyl records that emerged out of—and were produced to comment on—the struggle. From the chanson enrages that sung on the barricades, the birth of an independent and politicized music infrastructure in France, the explosive emergence of free jazz and rock scenes, and the enduring legacy and embedding of the sounds and aesthetics of '68 into experimental and pop music to this day, this book shows the impact of liberatory politics and action on our audio landscape.
“MacPhee’s resource presents a personal tribute to a global musical movement for the dedicated collector.”—Booklist
“It is works like this one that provide a refreshingly different lens through which to view cultural production in its vinyl form.”—Mediated Signals
“Political movements without music may still be called movements, but they are not worth joining. No recent scholarship on music and politics has proven this more thoroughly than that of anarchist graphic designer and archivist Josh MacPhee. Over the past decade, MacPhee has produced groundbreaking, encyclopedic work on the musical activity of twentieth-century left-wing and labor organizations.” —CounterPunch
ISBN: 9781945335860
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
152 pages