Singing is Political
Submitted by ParkMc on Sun, 01/02/2011 - 1:16pm
Panel Abstract:
Privileging the personal over the social challenges solidarity and radical change. In The Critique of Everyday Life, Henri Lefebvre writes "how can the 'masses'-whether masses of moments or masses of human beings-'participate' in a total vision?" This workshop, entitled "Singing is Political," invites participants to engage a total vision via singing together. This workshop will employ famous and little-known songs of liberation, protest, and resistance in an effort to create embodied collective experiences. We will analyze lyrics of anthems, spirituals, folk melodies, chants, as well as workers' and rap songs. We will sing these songs together, experimenting with ways in which singing shifts our individual experiences to collective engagement. Participants will receive a songbook to use, keep, and edit. In an effort to recoup the playfully spontaneous and sensuous qualities of everyday experience, we ask with the help of Bob Marley: "won't you help to sing these songs of freedom?"
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- Sofía Olascoaga—Whitney Independent Study Program
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Panel Abstract:
Privileging the personal over the social challenges solidarity and radical change. In The Critique of Everyday Life, Henri Lefebvre writes "how can the 'masses'-whether masses of moments or masses of human beings-'participate' in a total vision?" This workshop, entitled "Singing is Political," invites participants to engage a total vision via singing together. This workshop will employ famous and little-known songs of liberation, protest, and resistance in an effort to create embodied collective experiences. We will analyze lyrics of anthems, spirituals, folk melodies, chants, as well as workers' and rap songs. We will sing these songs together, experimenting with ways in which singing shifts our individual experiences to collective engagement. Participants will receive a songbook to use, keep, and edit. In an effort to recoup the playfully spontaneous and sensuous qualities of everyday experience, we ask with the help of Bob Marley: "won't you help to sing these songs of freedom?"
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