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‘Revolution in the Head’: How the Beatles and Bob Dylan made the 1960s. Reform, Revolt and Reaction Lecture Fourteen, Term 2 Week 7. Billie Holiday, ‘Strange Fruit’ (1939). Always played as the last song of her set at Café Society
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‘Revolution in the Head’: How the Beatles and Bob Dylan made the 1960s Reform, Revolt and Reaction Lecture Fourteen, Term 2 Week 7
Billie Holiday, ‘Strange Fruit’ (1939) • Always played as the last song of her set at Café Society • Considered too controversial to release by Columbia – recorded by Commodore instead
Josh White • ‘Trouble’, Chain Gang (1940) • ‘Uncle Sam Says’, Southern Exposure: An Album of Jim Crow Blues (1941) • First African American to give a White House Command Performance (1941)
Woody Guthrie and the Almanac Singers • Guthrie, ‘Talking Dust Bowl Blues’ (1940) • Guthrie, ‘This Land Is Your Land’ (1944) • Almanacs, Songs For John Doe (1941) • Almanacs, Talking Union and Other Union Songs (1941) • Almanacs, Dear Mr President (1942)
Old Man Atom (Atomic Talking Blues) • Vern Partlow (1945) • Sam Hinton (1950) • Ozzie Waters (1950) • The Sons of the Pioneers (1950)
Pete Seeger • ‘Where Have all the Flowers Gone’ ([1955] 1961) • ‘If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song)’ (1949): Peter Paul and Mary (1962) • ‘Turn! Turn! Turn!’ (1959): The Byrds (1965) • ‘Waist Deep in the Big Muddy’ (1967)
Bob Dylan • ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’ (1962) • ‘Masters of War’ (1963) • ‘Oxford Town’ (1963) • ‘The Death of Emmett Till’ (1963) • ‘A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall’ (1963) • ‘Only A Pawn in Their Game’ (1963) • ‘The Times They Are A-Changin’’ (1964)
Joan Baez, ‘We Shall Overcome’ • Had relationship with Dylan • Sang ‘We Shall Overcome’ at the March on Washington (1963)
Nina Simone • ‘Mississippi Goddam’ (1964) • ‘To Be Young, Gifted and Black’ (1970)
James Brown • ‘Say it Loud – I’m Black and I’m Proud’ (1968) • ‘I don’t Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open Up the Door, I’ll Get it Myself) (1969)
Sly and the Family Stone • Stand! (1969) • ‘Everyday People’ • ‘Don’t Call Me Nigger, Whitey’ • There’s a Riot Goin’ On (1971)
Country Joe & The Fish, ‘The Fish Cheer & I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag’ (1967)
The Beatles • ‘All You Need Is Love’ (1967) • ‘Revolution’ (1968) • Lennon, ‘Give Peace a Chance’ (1970)
The Manson Murders and ‘Helter Skelter’ (1968) “Look out… Helter Skelter… She’s coming down fast… Yes she is”
Key Questions to Consider… • What is a ‘protest song’? • Did artists lead protests or just reflect on the times? • How did popular music change (and change in) the 1960s? • How was music interpreted by the listeners? • How important are Bob Dylan and the Beatles to understanding the 1960s?