MUSIC THAT CHANGED THE WORLD #2 in Den Haag
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Waarom speelt muziek zo’n krachtige rol in protest? Van het schreeuwen op straat tot tussen een uitbundige menigte op een festival, muziek heeft een unieke kracht om mensen te verenigen. Deze tweede reeks van de Music That Changes The World-colleges verkent hoe muziek functioneert binnen protestsettings, met de nadruk op hoe het wordt ontvangen en ervaren door demonstranten en publiek. We kijken naar waarom muziek cruciaal is om van een menigte een collectief te maken, en hoe het emoties omzet in actie. Dit college is onderdeel van een reeks: 30-09: Sounds of protest: music, resistance, recognition 28-10: Champagne for the proletariat: Class-related Issues in Dutch Protest Songs 25-11: Humor, music, and activism: can laughter change the world? 16-12: “There’s Some Women in This House!”: Hip Hop Feminism and Sounds of Resistance Lecture 2 – “Champagne for the proletariat”: Class-related Issues in Dutch Protest Songs Protest songs in the Dutch language have been everywhere in recent years. Artists such as Sophie Straat, Hang Youth, Sef and IJsland have achieved mainstream success with their explicitly political songs. Notably, these artists have brought the issue of class back into the public debate. How and why have they done so? What is the tradition of class-related political songs in the Netherlands since 1966, the year in which protest pop songs first became popular? In this lecture, Laurens Ham explores the ever-changing landscape of Dutch protest songs on class-related issues, from ‘levenslied’ to hip-hop and punk music. Laurens Ham is assistant professor in Modern Dutch Literature, as well as an essayist and poet. His research focuses on issues of participation and political representation in literature and other art forms. He investigates how writers, musicians and other artists represent socio-political topics in their work, and how they attempt to change the world through their art, protests, lobbying and media appearances. In 2020, he published Op de vuist…
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