music

Content about music, and music industry struggles.

Fragment of album cover for Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures

Fragment of album cover for Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures

Reclaiming the skinhead tradition - review of "Spirit of '69" by George Marshall

Review of a book about Skinhead culture, taken from issue 2 of Anti-Fascist Action's Fighting Talk…

Rock for beginners – Miguel Amorós

A condensed social and political history of rock music, from its historical roots in Afro-American rhythm and blues, to its appropriation by…

Alfredo Bandelli (1945-1994), proletarian singer-songwriter of the Italian autonomist movement

Biography of Alfredo Bandelli, a working class militant and songwriter whose songs…

A crowd lights a bonfire of disco records at Comiskey Park

Music is stagnating, are neoliberalism and the gig economy to blame?

Progress in music is slowing down, a look at how neoliberalism and developments in music production…

Music education makes for a poor commodity

The privatization of music education has turned it into a commodity, and with students becoming increasingly addicted to instant stimulation and…

Roger Johnson and Pete Seeger singing "We shall overcome"

Lessons in leftism: Pete Seeger and the black power movement

The rise of “black power” led Pete Seeger to realize he had become a towering figure in a movement…

Fragment of album cover for Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures

Ghosts of my life: writings on depression, hauntology and lost futures

This collection of writings by Mark Fisher, author of the acclaimed 'Capitalist Realism', argues…

Pops in the Classroom

JUDITH TUDOR HART is grateful for the co-operation of the headmaster of Gosford Hill Secondary School, Kidlington, Oxon. She is 18, lives with her husband at Oxford and hopes to start on a university course herself next year.

Red and black on both sides: interview with radical hip-hop duo QELD

Interview with Bristol radical hip-hop duo, QELD, discussing their new album, the European militant…

Sex Pistols - Pistols at the Palace

Punk rock's silver jubilee

From Socialist Standard June 2002

The little red song book

PDF version of the "little red songbook": songs to fan the flames of discontent, first published by the revolutionary Industrial Workers of the…

Reflections on "Straight Outta Compton"

I just saw Straight Outta Compton near my home, in a tiny theater that dates back to the silent era (1913) and which has miraculously survived…