France
Links to choirs singing activists songs in France:
Chorale des Sans Nom - Nancy -
This site has lots of mp3's of songs here
Le Drapeau Rouge - lots of
lyrics but no music
Les Barricades - Grenoble
- lots of songs, lyrics, and music with midi files of parts.
Compagnie Jolie Môme -
a theatre group organizing the festival.
Canaille du midi - Toulouse
- lots of songs with lyrics and documents, some mp3's, no music
Chor'alternative - Rouen
- lots of original songs, with mp3 files of the parts and music in notation
form.
La Lutte Enchantée
(Marseille)
Gaperons Rouges (Riom)
La Barricade (Saint-Etienne)
La Bande À Rosa
(Amiens)
Chorale des Canulars,
Lyon
Espèce De Chorale (Brest): email pour renseignements: espece-de-chorale@listes.infini.fr
Other choirs without links
Joyeux Mutins (see them in action at http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7f1ws_les-joyeux-mutins_music
Les Oies sauvages (Montreuil)
Les Josettes Rouges (Le Havre)
La Lutte Enchantée (Marseille)
Les Joyeux Mutins(Lille)
L’Accord Râle (Charlieu)
Italy
Il Mafatorri (Parma)
Voci
Di Mezzo (Milano)
Il Deposito est en extraordinaire
archive, une vrai mine des chants qui recueille beaucoup beaucoup de
chants de proteste politique et social, pas seulement italiennes.
Il Deposito is an archive of
activist songs in many languages with recordings, lyrics and details.
Collection of anti-war songs
of all types - An Italian site that collects anti-war songs world-wide
hence in all languages and scripts. The home-page has links to lists
of songs already translated from pop, folk, etc. It contains mostly
lyrics but some mp3 downloads with some translations.
The main site doesnt seem to access the list of songs pending translation
from English so here
it is and it contains an enormous number.
Anarchist
songs
Chants de lutte - lyrics
and activist documents
Chants de la rue - modern
songs particularly new words to old songs
Mix-Cite - site of feminist
songs
Merle Rouge - lyrics and documents
Drapeau Rouge - Many songs
and some music here
Pages of links to French choirs and songs:
http://les.barricades.free.fr/Liens/frameNS.htm
http://labandearosa.over-blog.com/
http://www.alternatifs.org/76/liens.php
A festival of revolutionary choirs called La Belle Rouge
takes place in Saint-Amant-Roche-Savine, Auvergne,
Puy-de-Dôme (63), between Clermont-Ferrand and Saint-Etienne
over the last week-end in July. A 'Rencontre Chorales' took
place in the week following the festival in 2008. French choirs who
attended were Les Oies sauvages (Montreuil-93), La Barricade (Saint-Etienne
42), Choralternative (Rouen-76), Atelier Chanson de La Belle Etoile
(Saint-Denis-93), Les Gaperons Rouges (Riom-63), Les Barricades (Grenoble-38),
Les Josettes Rouges (Le Havre-76), La Bande à Rosa (Amiens-80),
Les Joyeux Mutins (Lille-59), La Lutte Enchantée (Marseille-13),
L’Accord Râle (Charlieu-42), des chorales révolutionnaires
de Perpignan (66), Tours (37) et Lyon (69), La Chorale des Sans-Noms
(Nancy-54), La Canaille du Midi (Toulouse-31). This meeting moved to
Vassivieres thereafter.
Link
for music and song recordings from St Amant 2008:
Lien
pour les enregistrements et la musique en notation de St Amant, 2008:
Karaoke:
(http://karalbol.free.fr/) A site of popular and revolutionary songs
with the songs below in karaoke as well as the original versions. The
karaoke versions show the words highlighted so you sing along to a backing
track together with suitable graphics background. The site requires
the download and installation of a free program <karafun> which
can be downloaded from the site.
A bas l'état policier, Bella ciao, Bienvenue en chiraquie, C'est
dans la rue, Chanson de Craonne, El pueblo unido jamas sera vencido,
Front ouvrier (ou Le Front des Travailleurs), Gloire au 17ème,
Hasta Siempre, Here's to you, Il est 5 heures (mai 68), L'appel du Komintern,
L'âge d'or, L'Estaca, L'hymne des femmes, L'Internationale, La
Butte Rouge, La Carmagnole, La Chanson du Père Duchesne, La Cucaracha,
La Jeune Garde, La Semaine Sanglante, La Varsovienne, Le Déserteur,
Le Drapeau Rouge, Le temps des cerises, Le temps perdu, Les Anarchistes,
Les Canuts, Les Mains d'or, Les Nouveaux partisans, Les Partisans, Lily,
Magouilles Blues, Motivés, Ne te trompe pas de colère,
Ouvrez les frontières, Parachutiste, Porcherie, Potemkine, Quand
un soldat, Salutations révolutionnaires, Sans la nommer, Solidarité,
Son bleu (repertoire at Jan 2009 - new songs are added continually).
Outside Europe
Irish site of
anarchist and freedom songs from all over the world with English
translations (the original site which does not seem to be so complete
is here)
Union Song - Australian
site with songs and documents from all over the world: more than 600
songs and poems and links to over 240 Authors; some french translations
of union songs.
New York City Labour Chorus:
several sound files for Solidarity forever, Get thee behind me Satan,
We shall overcome, Bread and Roses.
Internationale
You can hear about 100 versions (mp3) of the Internationale sung in
many languages including those by Billy Bragg and Pete Seeger: http://www.hymn.ru/internationale/index-en.html
UK sites
SeaGreen Singers,
Oxford, UK
Edinburgh, Protest in Harmony: Currently organizing Songs for
Faslane 365 Rise up Singing Blockade. For each song there is the score
to print out, and also mp3 files with each of the parts. Good links
page: http://www.protestinharmony.org.uk
London, Strawberry Thieves (London)
: has scores for 33 songs some of which we already sing but many we
dont complete with sound files (MIDI) for the parts. http://www.strawberrythieveschoir.org.uk
London, Raised Voices : good links page: http://www.raised-voices.org.uk
Nottingham Clarion choir: last update
2001, contact details: http://www.nottinghamclarionchoir.org.uk
Manchester Community choir : contact
details but access to songs, music, parts requires a members password
'for copyright reasons': http://www.manchestercommunitychoir.org.uk
Sheffield Socialist choir: http://www.socialistchoir.co.uk
: contact details, no songs or music but CD's available of their recordings
of most of songs in the repertoire of the left.
Raise Your
Banners: site of yearly weekend festival of left-wing choirs
held in North England
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