New Music Thread
- This topic has 59 replies, 13 voices, and was last updated 2 months, 2 weeks ago by
.
-
Posts
-
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/02/26/txpa-f26.html
Bob Marley: One Love—Airbrushing the complicated life of the great reggae singer
Paul Bond
25 February 2024
Jamaican Robert Nesta Marley (1945-1981) was one of the most gifted and appealing musicians of the 1970s. This outstanding singer and songwriter did much to popularise and develop reggae, taking it in new directions for a global audience. Young people everywhere responded to his anti-establishment and rebellious music. He was a popular music star at a time when such figures still meant something substantial to masses of people.Bob Marley’s continued popularity is reflected in the size of the audiences flocking to see Reinaldo Marcus Green’s biopic Bob Marley: One Love, despite almost universal criticism of its airbrushed superficiality.
At the end of Green’s film, we are told that Marley’s songs have become beacons for the oppressed everywhere. This deserves attention, but the necessary reflection on the contradictions in Marley’s life and work this involves is not forthcoming.
I would put this in the musical anti-war category and therefore deserving of a post on our forum (personal capacity)
Admittedly, they’re Armenian nationalists, but:
Packs a punch. (This was one of two songs they brought out during the last Nagorno-Karabakh conflict).
Enjoy this, if you can friends https://youtu.be/E3wISftyEAE?si=s_kcUNfbuxYrmWFg
Mention of music and Jesse James makes me think of these guys. It’s a two parter. Should be listened to in the correct sequence.
- You must be logged in to reply to this topic.