Welcome to the website for
Ed Emery’s
Revolutionary
Radio Show
An archiving project of old vinyl (and other) sound recordings,
with revolutionary implications.
This website
contains the playlists created for my Revolutionary Radio Shows at SOAS Radio, together with research notes on some of the songs
Website:
http://soasradio.org/ed-emerys-revolutionary-radio-show
Please note that
this is a work in progress.
I welcome contact
with other researchers in the field of revolutionary song. Write to me at the
address below.
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Introduction
My radio show is revolutionary. In
several senses.
Revolutionary because the records
go round and round, mostly at 33rpm.
Revolutionary because music and
song circulate - they go round and round - and that is the subject of my
musicological researches at SOAS.
Revolutionary because the old
vinyl which I am going to play before you goes round and round in the sense of
recycling - I buy most of it secondhand in cheapo-cheapo record stores around
Europe and elsewhere, scouring the bins...
And finally, revolutionary
because that is the nature of my politics. Activism (musical and otherwise),
and dissent as a principle of life.
My programmes (one per month,
with luck) will operate on the principle of "maxi musique - mini
bla-bla". Most of the tracks speak for themselves. If you want further
information, I have set up this website, for the purpose of giving lyrics,
notes, historical annotations etc for each of the items contained in my radio
shows. You can also write to me at the address below.
The tracks are taken from an
archive of black vinyl that I have accumulated over the past 40 years. Some of
it political, some of it radical, some of it songs of the heart. Songs of love
and liberation. The first programme was produced for Mayday 2010.
My programmes run for about 30
minutes. I hope you enjoy them.
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Contact:
ed.emery @ thefreeuniversity.net
Universitas adversitatis
Site initiated on 27 January 2013
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