Canzone legata alla vicenda di Sacco e Vanzetti, segnalataci dall'instancabile Alessandro, che la ricorda cantata dalla sua nonna paterna. Sembra che il testo non sia completo e manca il titolo (scegliamo quindi, secondo l'uso corrente, di utilizzare come titolo il primo verso).

Della canzone si parla in un articolo di Lele Odiardo su "Umanità Nova" (n. 28 dell'8 settembre 2002):

Nonostante il fascismo, le vicende di Sacco e Vanzetti entrano nell'immaginario popolare e suscitano una spontanea solidarietà ...

In quegli anni le notizie arrivavano, ancor prima che attraverso i giornali, con i cantastorie che si esibivano nelle piazze i giorni di festa e di mercato. L'indimenticato Tavio Cosio in un suo scritto riporta il testo di una canzone diffusa all'epoca.

Ricorda ancora il farmacista villafallettese: "La canzone in questione non ricordo se sia stata scritta nel 1927 o nel 1928, ma... (continuer)

Louis Aragon / Gérard-André Gaillard

[April 2004]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
From the album, or song collection, "For the moment"
David Rovics' Official Website


"For a beautiful Salvadoran woman I saw in a photo on the cover of the New York Times. I was sitting in a café in Seattle in November, 1989, while she was trying to overthrow the US-backed fascists in El Salvador. Standing majestically on a rooftop in San Salvador, dressed in fatigues and an AK. Too bad those SAM's got intercepted en route from Nicaragua." -David Rovics.

April, 2005

I had a great show a while back in Olympia, Washington and met Pat Maley there. I was recording a few new songs at his studio to put on the web, and at some point he suggested that I put out my next CD on his label, Yoyo Records. Thinking that to be a great idea, I went about figuring out what I wanted to do about that, and this is the end result.

Four cities were involved... (continuer)

[February, 2004]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
From the album, or song collection, "For the moment"
http://David Rovics' Official Website

"For the apartheid wall in Occupied Palestine. Originally recorded in the spring of 2004 for Songs for Mahmud." -David Rovics.

April, 2005

I had a great show a while back in Olympia, Washington and met Pat Maley there. I was recording a few new songs at his studio to put on the web, and at some point he suggested that I put out my next CD on his label, Yoyo Records. Thinking that to be a great idea, I went about figuring out what I wanted to do about that, and this is the end result.

Four cities were involved in this decisively non-Luddite production. I recorded vocal and guitar tracks in Houston, and Kristine Pettersen (Thistle) did harmony vocals later in the same place, Sugar Hill Studios with John Griffin engineering. I sent the sound files... (continuer)

[April 2004]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
From the album, or song collection, "For the moment"
http://www.davidrovics.com

April, 2005

I had a great show a while back in Olympia, Washington and met Pat Maley there. I was recording a few new songs at his studio to put on the web, and at some point he suggested that I put out my next CD on his label, Yoyo Records. Thinking that to be a great idea, I went about figuring out what I wanted to do about that, and this is the end result.

Four cities were involved in this decisively non-Luddite production. I recorded vocal and guitar tracks in Houston, and Kristine Pettersen (Thistle) did harmony vocals later in the same place, Sugar Hill Studios with John Griffin engineering. I sent the sound files up to Boston and in Tenitus Studios my friend Sean Staples laid down bass, mandolin, bouzouki, electric guitar, dobro and nylon string guitar... (continuer)

[September 2004]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
From the album, or song collection, "For the moments"
David Rovics' Official Website

April, 2005

I had a great show a while back in Olympia, Washington and met Pat Maley there. I was recording a few new songs at his studio to put on the web, and at some point he suggested that I put out my next CD on his label, Yoyo Records. Thinking that to be a great idea, I went about figuring out what I wanted to do about that, and this is the end result.

Four cities were involved in this decisively non-Luddite production. I recorded vocal and guitar tracks in Houston, and Kristine Pettersen (Thistle) did harmony vocals later in the same place, Sugar Hill Studios with John Griffin engineering. I sent the sound files up to Boston and in Tenitus Studios my friend Sean Staples laid down bass, mandolin, bouzouki, electric guitar, dobro and nylon string... (continuer)

Music by Mark D. Williams
Lyrics by David Hamilton

An original Rock Opera by
David Hamilton and Mark D. Williams
Adapted from Aristophanes’ Lysistrata

Official Website

Libretto

Aristophanes' anti-war comedy Lysistrata, written in 411 BC, has female characters, led by the eponymous Lysistrata, barricading the public funds building and withholding consensual sex from their husbands to secure peace and end the Peloponnesian War. In doing so, Lysistrata engages the support of women from Sparta, Boeotia, and Corinth. All of them are at first aghast at the suggestion of withholding sex, but they finally agree and swear an oath to support each other. The woman from Sparta, Lampito, returns home to spread the word there.

The play also addresses the contribution that women could make to society and to policy making, but cannot because their views are ignored: All such questions are considered... (continuer)

"So this song is my first anti-war song. This song is basically about the war and how it sucks and all that kind of stuff, but it's also about keeping a good attitude about how we have to change things and basically, kind of, rebuild our entire country from the ground up. From square one. And trying to keep a good attitude about it, 'cause there's a lot of work to do. But if we stay in a good mood and have a good time doing it then we have a better chance of pulling it off."
(Lisa Rein)

[2005]
Halliburton Boardroom Massacre

Here are fifteen songs I wrote between January and July,
2005. I recorded them at Sugar Hill in Houston with John Griffin on the board on the afternoon of July 28th. I guess there's another bunch of songs here which are continuing the ecological theme that was heavily represented in Beyond the Mall (and to one degree or another in all of my other recordings). Some of the songs are definitely inspired by the musical sensibilies of TV Smith ("Crashing Down," "Boardroom," "Before the Oil Wells Run Dry," "Waiting For The Fall"). I don't know if any of these songs approach TV's brilliance at writing stuff with great universality to it, nor whether the melodies are as catchy as his, but in any case, his music has been a focus for my own songwriting over the past couple months.

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"Riffing off of a Robb Johnson song (and a Pete Seeger song)."

David Rovics.
http://www.davidrovics.com

[2005]
Halliburton Boardroom Massacre

Here are fifteen songs I wrote between January and July,
2005. I recorded them at Sugar Hill in Houston with John Griffin on the board on the afternoon of July 28th. I guess there's another bunch of songs here which are continuing the ecological theme that was heavily represented in Beyond the Mall (and to one degree or another in all of my other recordings). Some of the songs are definitely inspired by the musical sensibilies of TV Smith ("Crashing Down," "Boardroom," "Before the Oil Wells Run Dry," "Waiting For The Fall"). I don't know if any of these songs approach TV's brilliance at writing stuff with great universality to it, nor whether the melodies are as catchy as his, but in any case, his music has been a focus for my own songwriting over the past couple months.

Oh, this is a web-only release and can be found in it's entirely in the "MP3... (continuer)

[2005]
Here are fifteen songs I wrote between January and July,
2005. I recorded them at Sugar Hill in Houston with John Griffin on the board on the afternoon of July 28th. I guess there's another bunch of songs here which are continuing the ecological theme that was heavily represented in Beyond the Mall (and to one degree or another in all of my other recordings). Some of the songs are definitely inspired by the musical sensibilies of TV Smith ("Crashing Down," "Boardroom," "Before the Oil Wells Run Dry," "Waiting For The Fall"). I don't know if any of these songs approach TV's brilliance at writing stuff with great universality to it, nor whether the melodies are as catchy as his, but in any case, his music has been a focus for my own songwriting over the past couple months.

Oh, this is a web-only release and can be found in it's entirely in the "MP3 music" section of http://this Website. Click on the song titles below to check out the lyrics to each song.

David Rovics.
http://www.davidrovics.com

[2006]
Halliburton Boardroom Massacre

Here are fifteen songs I wrote between January and July,
2005. I recorded them at Sugar Hill in Houston with John Griffin on the board on the afternoon of July 28th. I guess there's another bunch of songs here which are continuing the ecological theme that was heavily represented in Beyond the Mall (and to one degree or another in all of my other recordings). Some of the songs are definitely inspired by the musical sensibilies of TV Smith ("Crashing Down," "Boardroom," "Before the Oil Wells Run Dry," "Waiting For The Fall"). I don't know if any of these songs approach TV's brilliance at writing stuff with great universality to it, nor whether the melodies are as catchy as his, but in any case, his music has been a focus for my own songwriting over the past couple months.

Oh, this is a web-only release and can be found in it's entirely in the "MP3 music" section of
this Website. Click on the song titles below to check out the lyrics to each song.

David Rovics.
http://www.davidrovics.com

[2005]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
From David Rovics' Official Website

[2005]
Halliburton Boardroom Massacre

Here are fifteen songs I wrote between January and July,
2005. I recorded them at Sugar Hill in Houston with John Griffin on the board on the afternoon of July 28th. I guess there's another bunch of songs here which are continuing the ecological theme that was heavily represented in Beyond the Mall (and to one degree or another in all of my other recordings). Some of the songs are definitely inspired by the musical sensibilies of TV Smith ("Crashing Down," "Boardroom," "Before the Oil Wells Run Dry," "Waiting For The Fall"). I don't know if any of these songs approach TV's brilliance at writing stuff with great universality to it, nor whether the melodies are as catchy as his, but in any case, his music has been a focus for my own songwriting over the past couple months.

David Rovics.
http://www.davidrovics.com

[November 2003]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
http://www.davidrovics.com

"Read more about this interesting situation at the website of the Shannon Peace Camp." -David Rovics.

[April 2003]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
http://www.davidrovics.com

"Martyrdom, that is, knowingly giving your life for a cause, was not invented in Palestine, and is generally a revered concept world-wide. I think it should be seen in that light."

[April 2003]
Lyrics and Music by David Rovics
http://www.davidrovics.com

"Nationalists with low IQ's bug me almost as much as the smart ones." -David Rovics.

Lyrics and music by David Rovics
http://www.davidrovics.com

"King David was a butcher. Actually, it really depends on how you interpret things, but herein lies one possible interpretation." -David Rovics

[November 2002]
Lyrics by David Rovics
http://www.davidrovics.com

[July 2000]
Lyrics by David Rovics
Music by David Rovics and Rich Caloggero
http://www.davidrovics.com

"Since the protests in Seattle in November/December 1999, the cops/system has been reacting with calculated violence and intimidation to protests throughout North America and elsewhere. In July there was a particularly brutal incident in Minneapolis." -David Rovics

[May 1999]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
http://www.davidrovics.com

"Here's one from May, 1999. Pretty self-explanatory. Stop the war." -David Rovics

[1998]
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
http://www.davidrovics.com

" I'm not saying what's right or wrong in this song, just what's real. You reap what you sow, and that applies to the USAF, the IMF and the CIA, too. I was thinking, after the late December bombings in Iraq, of a news article I read back in '91. Apparently, tens of thousands of men from Jordan were volunteering for the Iraqi armed forces, wanting to serve the cause of anti-imperialism. In the section of the application forms where they were asked of their qualifications for serving in the military, thousands replied with only one word: "martyr."- David Rovics.

2009
Ten Thousand Miles Away
Lyrics and Music by David Rovics
Testo e musica di David Rovics
http://www.davidrovics.com

"Anti-Castro terrorist, free in Miami along with so many others of his kind." -David Rovics.

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Il terrorismo asimmetrico: la vicenda di Luis Posada Carriles.

Gli USA ospitano in Florida il noto terrorista Luis Posada Carriles. Cuba protesta e ne chiede l'estradizione.

(19 aprile 2005)


Luis Posada Carriles è un noto terrorista. Meno noto di Bin Laden ma con un curriculum di tutto rispetto e sicuramente con più esperienza sul campo.

Collaboratore del regime cubano di Batista, passò, dopo la rivoluzione dei barbutos e il conseguente crollo del dittatore cubano, alle dipendenze della CIA e dei poteri forti statunitensi. Di lui si sà con certezza - è reo confesso di molti reati, omicidi e attentati - che operò per anni in vari stati del sud america tessendo,... (continuer)

Lyrics and Music by David Rovics
http://www.davidrovics.com/

"The drug war has been won a long time ago -- by the CIA, who else?" -David Rovics.

Lyrics and Music by David Rovics

"Riffing on something Paul Watson said in a really good talk I just heard." - David Rovics.

November 2005
Lyrics and music by David Rovics
David Rovic's Official Website
2009
Ten Thousand Miles Away

"Another attempt at writing a song about the connection between 9/11/2001 and 9/11/1973. This time it worked."
-David Rovics.

(1982)

Un espediente non spesso utilizzato nelle "protest song": rappresentare l'assurdità della guerra attraverso l'assurdità della musica. Anche il testo, a dire il vero, non è da meno...

Reinterpretata anche dalla rock band Yo La Tengo nel 2002.

Album: Days of Open Hand (1990)

"Men in a War" is about missing a piece of yourself, whether it's a physical piece or a part of your will or spirit. I put the woman in the song because I wanted to show these two people in opposite circumstances, both of them feeling incomplete. The man is feeling something he doesn't have, and the woman is not feeling something she has."
"The Open Hand Book - Notes on her New Album", Musician, 1991, also published in Language and in the Limited Edition of 99.9F° (http://www.vega.net/handbook.htm) transcribed by Eric Szczerbinski

(da The Rusted Pipe Web Site)

[1812-13]
Da "La musica dell'Altra Italia"

Nota anche come "Viva la Russia, viva la Prussia", si tratta senz'altro della canzone su Napoleone I più diffusa in tutta l'Italia settentrionale, entrata nel repertorio militare e di risaia; raccolta da Gianni Bosio e Roberto Leydi, 1962, Cologno al Serio, Bergamo.

[1969]
Parole di Nanni Svampa
Musica di Lino Patruno

Testo ripreso da "La musica dell'Altra Italia".

Incisioni:

- Nanni Svampa: Perché
- Nanni Svampa in italiano 2
- Nanni Svampa: Cabaret italiano

[1975]
Testo e musica di Pino Masi.

Si veda anche La manifestazione in cui morì Zibecchi.


PER NON DIMENTICARE
Aprile 1975

Claudio Varalli aveva 17 anni, abitava a Bollate in provincia di Milano, frequentava l’Istituto Tecnico per il Turismo che oggi è intitolato a suo nome ed era un militante del Movimento Lavoratori per il Socialismo.
Giannino Zibecchi aveva 27 anni, abitava a Milano, insegnava educazione fisica alla Uisp ed era un militante del Coordinamento dei Comitati Antifascisti.
Non erano figure eccezionali: erano due ragazzi, divisi da 10 anni d’età, uniti dalla passione politica, sostenuti dalla speranza di migliorare il mondo, protagonisti come migliaia di altri del lungo ’68 italiano. Claudio e Giannino hanno avuto la sfortuna di non riuscire a sopravvivere all’esperienza di quegli anni e noi - compagni ed amici di allora e di sempre - ci auguriamo che raccontando,... (continuer)

Testo di Gualtiero Bertelli
ispirato e sull'aria di "Bandiera Rossa"

Mai e poi mai avremmo pensato di inserire una versione di "Bandiera Rossa" nelle CCG/AWS, un canto che, in una delle sue (numerose) versioni presenta strofe come questa: "E se la Russia ci dà il fucile /Guerra civile, guerra civile/E se la Russia ci dà il fucile/Guerra civile vogliamo far". Mai lo avremmo pensato, finché non ci siamo imbattuti (nella "Musica dell'Altra Italia", come sempre...) in questa bella versione di Gualtiero Bertelli nella quale è presente una strofa così chiaramente contro la guerra, da giustificare appieno il suo inserimento. Ci piacerebbe davvero che questa fosse la versione di "Bandiera Rossa" cantata universalmente...

La versione fu interpretata dal Nuovo Canzoniere Veneto. Riportata da G.Vettori nello storico tascabile della Newton-Compton "Canzoni italiane di protesta 1794-1974", edito nel 1976, fu incisa nell'album "Canti della sinistra di classe" pubblicato dal Manifesto.

(2000)
dall'album "Rancid"

La canzone si riferisce al terribile genocidio ruandese del 1994, una delle tante guerre praticamente dimenticate.

Il genocidio avvenne in un clima di totale indifferenza da parte dell'ONU e di molti paesi occidentali che mandarono i contingenti con l'unico scopo di salvare i propri cittadini. Fra questi spicca la Francia, che non solo non volle fermare la folle barbarie assassina (negli anni precedenti aveva armato e addestrato le FAR), ma anzi la fiancheggiò mandando contingenti a supportare le truppe hutu in ritirata dopo l'arrivo del FPR (tutsi). Ancora oggi, dopo dieci anni dal genocidio, rimangono aperti numerosi interrogativi ai quali forse non verrà mai data risposta.

[2005]
Sacco e Vanzetti

[2005]
Sacco e Vanzetti

feat. Marino Severini

[2005]
Sacco e Vanzetti

(1969)
dall'album "Volunteers"
anche in "Crosby, Stills & Nash", primo album di Crosby, Stills & Nash (senza Young)



Scritta dal leader dei Jefferson Airplane Paul Kantner assieme a David Crosby e Stephen Stills. Per questo è anche nel repertorio di Crosby, Stills & Nash. Sia CS&N che gli Airplane la eseguirono a Woodstock nel 1969.

In questa canzone il popolo degli oppositori si appresta ad abbandonare il mondo dell'establishment con "navi di legno", la stessa idea di fuga che sarà ripresa ed estesa (verso lo spazio) nel successivo album (firmato Jefferson Starship) Blows Against The Empire.
(adattato da Musica e Memoria)

Le navi di legno possono essere in realtà paragonate a tante Arche che portano via i sopravvissuti a una catastrofe atomica (o comunque a qualche guerra), come spiega bene Piero Scaruffi, per raggiungere un mondo utopico dove si possa vivere in... (continuer)

da "Blows Against The Empire" (1970)

Brano d'apertura del primo album dei Jefferson Starship, dopo il grande successo di Volunteers degli Airplane.

Così presenta l'album in un interessante articolo il critico Riccardo Bertoncelli (che stavolta non "spara cazzate"...):

da "Jefferson Starship - Blows Against The Empire" di Riccardo Bertoncelli

[Del nucleo originale dei Jefferson Airplane] nel '70 ritroviamo solo Paul Kantner e Grace Slick, all'inizio fra l'altro di una tenera (effimera) storia d'amore. Mentre gli altri si tirano indietro o vanno in tour o fanno vacanza (Jorma e Jack passano settimane in Scandinavia dedicandosi al pattinaggio), i due entrano ai Pacific High Studios e cominciano a stendere bozze per quello che potrebbe essere il nuovo disco dei Jefferson o forse no. Non è ben chiaro se il gruppo sopravviverà e, nel dubbio, Kantner decide di trasformare le idee in un progetto... (continuer)

(1977)
La canzone è basata sul discorso finale di Vanzetti.

testo ripreso da Songs about immigrants.

[2001]
Album: "Nothing New For Trash Like You"