A New Song
A New Song is a public performance in the form of a curated karaoke party. Taking inspiration from the International Workers Order’s 1938 pamphlet of the same name, A New Song features a song selection composed entirely of protest songs. A flyer containing a list of available songs as well as a poem from the original IWO pamphlet is available for spectators and participants to take with them. The performance offers the opportunity for individual self-expression within a communal setting to underscore the role that music has played in promoting and supporting collective activism.
Documentation from Art in Odd Places. New York, New York. 2014
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Current List of Available Songs:
- Respect – Aretha Franklin
- Revolution – The Beatles
- Strange Fruit – Billie Holiday
- To Have And To Have Not – Billy Bragg *
- War Pigs – Black Sabbath
- Blowin’ In The Wind – Bob Dylan
- The Times They Are A Changin’ – Bob Dylan
- Get Up Stand Up – Bob Marley
- Redemption Song – Bob Marley
- War – Bob Marley
- Born In The U.S.A. – Bruce Springsteen
- I Fought The Law – The Clash
- Fortunate Son – Creedance Clearwater Revival
- Ohio – Crosby, Stills, & Nash
- Not Ready To Make Nice – Dixie Chicks
- War – Edwin Starr
- Radio, Radio – Elvis Costello
- Signs – Five Man Electric Band
- American Idiot – Green Day
- Minority – Green Day
- Eton Rifles – The Jam
- Say It Loud – I’m Black And I’m Proud – James Brown
- Many Rivers To Cross – Jimmy Cliff
- Imagine – John Lennon
- Battle Hymn Of The Republic – Julia Ward Howe
- Roar – Katy Perry
- The Pill – Loretta Lynn
- What’s Goin’ On? – Marvin Gaye
- Beds Are Burning – Midnight Oil
- Mississippi Goddamn – Nina Simone
- Fuck Tha Police – NWA
- Enola Gay – OMD
- Knowledge – Operation Ivy
- If I Had A Hammer – Pete Seeger
- We Shall Overcome – Pete Seeger
- Where Have All The Flowers Gone – Pete Seeger
- I Ain’t Marching Anymore – Phil Ochs *
- Give Peace A Chance – Plastic Ono Band
- Fight The Power – Public Enemy
- U.N.I.T.Y. – Queen Latifah
- Gimme Shelter – Rolling Stones
- None Of Your Business – Salt-N-Pepa
- A Change Is Gonna Come – Sam Cooke
- Anarchy In The U.K. – Sex Pistols
- Stand – Sly & The Family Stone
- Panic – The Smiths
- Talkin’ bout A Revolution – Tracy Chapman
- Sunday, Bloody Sunday – U2
- My Generation – The Who
- This Land is Your Land – Woody Guthrie
* Sing-Along Tracks
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