Song of revolt , song protestor… this Musical genre, if as well is as one can name it thus, seems old like the world.

A certain number of our Chanson S popular are connected there. It is the case of the song of Mandrin which was a great success the day before the French revolution. The songs of the black slaves are, par excellence, of the songs protestors. The music also has this character. With the Island of the Meeting, the practice of the Wheeler, a drum makes in a barrel of boat, symbol of the Esclave S, remained prohibited until in 1981! One could also qualify it literary kind . It is besides generally the product of the meeting between a writer and a Compositeur.

The song of French revolt

The Marseillaise

National anthem of the French Republic, the Marseillaise is perhaps not strictly speaking a song of revolt. It acts at the beginning of a battle song and it is well what its opponents reproach him today. But its close link with the history of the French revolution and its will have popular justify its presence here. It was created in 1792 whereas the constituent Assembly convinced the king Louis XVI to declare the war with the Austria. The troops are in garrison with Strasbourg and Rouget of Lisle, known locally for its Hymn to liberty, is seen entrusting by the generals and the mayor of the city the realization of a battle song to encourage the troops. It then composes the Battle song for the army of the Rhine . This one is carried from city downtown by the soldiers and it reaches Marseilles where it meets a sharp success near the Fédérés. They sing it during their way towards Paris which leads them to take part in the insurrection of the Palais of Tileries on August 10th, 1792. At this point in time the revolutionary battle song takes the name of Marseillaise . Always meeting a great success, the Convention of the 26 messidor year III (July 14th 1795) issues it national song. Prohibited under the Empire and the Restoration, it reappears at the time of the Glorious Three of 1830. It will accompany, begun again by the people, the fight against the German domination during the three wars of 1870, 1914-1918 and 1939-1945.

Let us go! Children of the Fatherland! /The day of glory arrived! /Against us of tyranny,/the bloody standard is raised! ((a))/do you Hear in the campaigns/Mugir these wild soldiers? /They come until in your arms/Égorger your sons, your partners. /With the weapons, citizens! etc

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The International one

The poem of Eugene Pottier, put in music in Lille by Pierre Degeyter, Inhabitant of Lille of Belgian origin, knows the celebrity with the favor of the congresses of the French working Party in 1896 and 1899, then socialist international Congress of Paris of 1900. It is with the congress of Copenhagen, in 1910, which it begins its international career with a masterly execution with 500 chorus-singers and musicians. In 1928, Pierre Degeyter is invited to Moscow where the congress of the international Communist pays homage to him.

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Upright damnés of the ground/Upright the convicts of the hunger/the reason thunders in its crater/It is the eruption of the end/past make clean slate/Foules, slaves, upright, upright/the world will change basic/We are not nothing, are all…

It is the final fight/Groupons us, and tomorrow ((a))/the International one Will be mankind

Song of the partisans

It is in May 1943 which in London the famous Chant is born from the partisans which will remain the symbol of French resistance to the German occupation. The text is of Joseph Kessel and Maurice Druon, the music of Anna Marly. It will be the code of the emission of the BBC Honneur and Patrie of May 1943 in March 1944, but it will be especially the song of rallying. /On our plains. /Ami you hear/the deaf cries of the country/Which one connects…/Ohé partisans/Ouvriers and country/It is alarm! /This evening the enemy/Will know the price of blood/And the tears…

After May 68

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The American “protest song”

The “protest song” was always popular with the the United States. Artists like Woody Guthrie or Pete Seeger made known it with many people. The American “protest song” is true a modern Chanson of revolt. It is an engaged song, often accompanied by one or more guitars, and which covers readily political or social subjects current. The range of the subjects covered in the texts of these songs is very vast.

Blowin' in the Wind of Bob Dylan is undoubtedly the starting point of an acceptance of the “protest song” near the media, the first song of revolt modern has to be diffused has planetary scales. Drawn from a song of slaves, a Negro spiritual, which it arranges with genius, this Chanson will be taken again by the 250.000 demonstrators of the Marche on Washington of Martin Luther King.

How many years must has mountain exist/before it is washed to the sea? Does How many years edge summon people exist/Before they' Re allowed to Be free? Does An' how many times edge have man turn his head,/An' claims that He just doesn' T see? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, /The answer is blowin' in the wind.

How much years is necessary it for the mountain to arrive at the sea? How much years people can it exist before obtaining freedom? And how much time a man can it divert the head and make as if it did not have anything considering? The answer, my friend, is carried by the wind, the answer is carried by the wind.

When Bob Dylan sings this song in April 1962, it is 21 years old. The Guerre of Vietnam involves an important mobilization of young American around the Non-violence and right of the people and men. The music is their spokesperson in the conflict which opposes them to the generation of their parents.

Neil Young coupled the step with " Ohio" in 1970 on the album of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: " 4 Way Street ". The song was inspired by the murder of four students by the police force with the campus of Kent in the Ohio.

Today, many which is those continue this tradition: /www.davidrovics.com/ David Rovics, Jim Page, Chechmate Callahan, Michael Franti or Anne Feeney are only some examples. Their public widened considerably to touch all the generations of American. However, these songs are almost not diffused by the media.

The musical genres also diversified and it is not only any more of the ballades folks but also of the Hip-hop, the Punk or the pop. Artists of other countries can be compared with this “protest song”, true popular song of modern times, for example Gilles Servat in France, Jan Hammarlund in Sweden, Chris TT in England or Silvio Rodriguez with Cuba.

Nueva canción

It is a movement of Protest song S Folk carried out by artists Chile ens as Violeta Parra (“Gracias with emptied”) and Víctor Jara.

It will inspire the Nueva trova with Cuba, the Tropicalisme with the Brésil…

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See too

Internal bonds

External bonds

  • the red flag a site on the revolutionary songs of the labor movement (texts, partitions, airs with the format midday)
  • revolte.free.fr a self-managed site of rebellious songs and dispute of the established order
  • Songs against the war, a collective collection of pacifist words of songs and antimilitarists of all times and of everyone.
  • Songs engaged on the Spinning top

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