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In this short, graphic volume, Josh MacPhee explores the role of music and sound in the student and worker revolt on May 1968 in France through the lens of the vinyl records that emerged out of—and were produced to comment on—the struggle. From the chanson enrages that sung on the barricades, the birth of an independent and politicized music infrastructure in France, the explosive emergence of free jazz and rock scenes, and the enduring legacy and embedding of the sounds and aesthetics of '68 into experimental and pop music to this day, this book shows the impact of liberatory politics and action on our audio landscape.
“MacPhee’s resource presents a personal tribute to a global musical movement for the dedicated collector.”—Booklist
“It is works like this one that provide a refreshingly different lens through which to view cultural production in its vinyl form.”—Mediated Signals
“Political movements without music may still be called movements, but they are not worth joining. No recent scholarship on music and politics has proven this more thoroughly than that of anarchist graphic designer and archivist Josh MacPhee. Over the past decade, MacPhee has produced groundbreaking, encyclopedic work on the musical activity of twentieth-century left-wing and labor organizations.” —CounterPunch
Josh MacPhee is a designer, artist, and archivist. He is a founding member of both the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative and Interference Archive, a public collection of cultural materials produced by social movements based in Brooklyn, NY. MacPhee is the author and editor of numerous publications, including Strike While the Needle is Hot: A Discography of Workers’ Militancy, An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels, and Graphic Liberation: Image Making and Political Movements. He has organized the Celebrate People's History poster series since 1998 and has contributed to the art and culture of the campaigns of dozens of community organizations and unions.
Grégory Pierrot teaches literature at the University of Connecticut. He studies the cultural networks of the Black Atlantic. He has translated into English Philippe Carles and Jean-Louis Comolli's Free Jazz/Black Power, and is the author of The Black Avenger in Atlantic Culture and Decolonize Hipsters, as well as several books in French.
introduction
- sounds of revolution
- weight in vinyl
- singing on the barricades
- revolution in the ear
- talk talk talk
- caught in the wake
- jazz, black power, and intercommunalism
- regional autonomy
- and we can’t forget the rock
- '68 as source material
- the enduring image of mai
- la lutte continue