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Sunday, August 13, 2006

Documentaries: The French Riots and Rap | The Oral Folk History of Post WW2 Squatting

Discovering the wonderful BBC 4 recently, I've come across a series of documentaries that might be worth sharing with you. French rap has been the voice of the banlieues, the poor suburbs encircling Paris and other french cities, the tensions and the musical culture of these estates were briefly brought to international attention by the 1996 film La Haine and more recently during the recent riots where it 'blew on the embers' of rebellion in incendiary lyrics challenging the role of the poulet/police and national myths on what it means to be french. Straight Outta Clichy is a radio documentary that explores the contours of these antagonisms, with interviews with the main movers and shakers in the industry, rappers pursued by the French state for their lyrical descriptions of police violence and those that seek to use rap as a scapegoat for explosions against social deprivation.

Another excellent documentary I've listened to recently deals with the oral folk history of persistent shortages at the end of the second world war, a problem that lead to over 40,000 British people taking the law into their own hands and squatted in property that they didn't own presenting Atlee's Labour Government with its first great crisis. Squatter's Paradise is their tale. With ever escaluating rent prices in Dublin, this programme is definitely food for thought ( 1) Many of you will probably be shocked to find Dublin has its own militant history of squatting as a solution to a lack of social housing, in the seventies the Dublin Squatters Association housed hundreds with the state even threatening to bring in the army to help bailiffs.

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Sunday, August 13, 2006 Documentaries: The French Riots and Rap \| The Oral Folk History of Post WW2 Squatting Discovering the wonderful BBC 4 recently, I've come across a series of documentaries that might be worth sharing with you. French rap has been the voice of the banlieues, the poor suburbs encircling Paris and other french cities, the tensions and the musical culture of these estates were briefly brought to international attention by the 1996 film La Haine and more recently during the recent riots where it 'blew on the embers' of rebellion in incendiary lyrics challenging the role of the poulet/police and national myths on what it means to be french. Straight Outta Clichy is a radio documentary that explores the contours of these antagonisms, with interviews with the main movers and shakers in the industry, rappers pursued by the French state for their lyrical descriptions of police violence and those that seek to use rap as a scapegoat for explosions against social deprivation. Another excellent documentary I've listened to recently deals with the oral folk history of persistent shortages at the end of the second world war, a problem that lead to over 40,000 British people taking the law into their own hands and squatted in property that they didn't own presenting Atlee's Labour Government with its first great crisis. Squatter's Paradise is their tale. With ever escaluating rent prices in Dublin, this programme is definitely food for thought ( 1) Many of you will probably be shocked to find Dublin has its own militant history of squatting as a solution to a lack of social housing, in the seventies the Dublin Squatters Association housed hundreds with the state even threatening to bring in the army to help bailiffs. Labels: Media, Music, Squatting # posted by antrophe @ 6:18 PM Comments: Post a Comment	About Soundtracksforthem specialises in iconoclastic takes on culture, politics, and more shite from the underbelly of your keyboard. A still-born group blog with a recent surge of different contributers but mainly maintained by James R. Big up all the contributers and posse regardless of churn out rate: Kyle Browne, Reeuq, Cogsy, Chief, X-ie phader/Krossie, Howard Devoto, Dara, Ronan and Mark Furlong. Send your wishes and aspirations to antropheatgmail.com Label Cluster In no certain order... Politics, Guest Bloggers Interviews, Music, Internet, Guest Bloggers, Travel, Blogging, TV, Society, Film, Gig Reviews, Art, Media. The Neverending Blogroll A Womb Of Her Own Arse End Of Ireland BlissBlog BBC One Music Blog Blackdown Sound Boy Buckfast For Breakfast Customer Servitude Counago & Spaves C8 Candy PDF Mag Guttabreakz House is a Feeling Homoludo Infactah Indymedia Indie Hour Blog Jim Carroll kABooGIE MusIC Kid Kameleon Kick Magazine Toronto Libcom Matt Vinyl Modern Cadence Mongrel Nialler9 One For The Road Old Rotten Hat Pitchfork Salvo Spannered Sigla Test Thumped Newish Journalism TV Is Crying Uncarved Una Rocks Urban75 Weareie WSM Wooster Village Magazine Radical Urban Theory Archives February 2002 October 2002 April 2003 September 2003 November 2003 December 2003 January 2004 February 2004 March 2004 June 2004 September 2004 January 2005 February 2005 March 2005 April 2005 June 2005 July 2005 August 2005 September 2005 October 2005 November 2005 December 2005 January 2006 February 2006 March 2006 April 2006 May 2006 June 2006 July 2006 August 2006 September 2006 October 2006 November 2006 December 2006 January 2007 February 2007 March 2007 April 2007 May 2007 June 2007 July 2007 August 2007 September 2007 October 2007 November 2007 December 2007 January 2008 February 2008 March 2008 Postings This Never-ending Bebo Hysteria The Omen, Guerilla Advertising and Street Art Vincenzo Monolouges: New IIW Style Blog Attacks Br... More Of A TV Pointer Than A Review: Drawn Together Beware The MCD Hoover. Oxegen, Poxegen: The Modern Rock and Roll Experie... Not surprised but still . . . Whack The Paddy At The Molly Malone. Loach: The Coronation Street Of Class Struggle Dave Landy's Alternative Marx. www.flickr.com This is a Flickr badge showing public photos from antrophe. Make your own badge here.
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