Music is making a comeback in movement spaces, as organizers rediscover how song culture strengthens the capacity to create social change.
in 2018,"Part of what makes the Sunrise Movement's activists seem so optimistic is that they conduct most of their protests while singing." Critics have branded members of groups like IfNotNow"singing zombies," a charge the group haswith Halloween-y humor, posting photos on Twitter of members made up to look like zombies posing with signs with quips such as,"Sh*t, I'm a singing zombie while all my friends are having fun on Birthright.
Over time, groups develop a repertoire of songs they can draw from, and having favorites that can be repeated provides a great foundation for a movement's song culture. These do not have to be the freedom songs of old. While many people are intimidated by the idea of coming up with entirely new tunes, remixing popular songs is a way of drawing on our common cultural heritage and connecting people with something familiar."People say, ‘Well, I'm not a brilliant songwriter.
Participants in trainings have improvised new, protest-inspired lyrics to everything from"Call Me Maybe" to"Single Ladies." On the streets, fresh anthems from Janelle Monae's"Say Her Name" to Chance The Rapper's"Blessings" have found their way into mass marches, just as refrains like Kendrick Lamar's"We gon' be alright" and Beyoncé's"You won't break my soul" have been adapted as protest chants.
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