Windowsill - Arcade Fire
A Day in the Life of a Tree - Beach Boys
' But now my branches suffer/And my leaves don't offer/Poetry to men of song'
War Pigs - Black Sabbath
'like a Hieronymous Bosch painting come to life. ... pacifism noir.... Birminghams infamous hippie-haters .. close to their flower-powered anti-Vietnam war peers'
And the band played Waltzing Matilda - Eric Bogle
'First Person tale of Gallipoli - a rambler who answers his country's call and returns minus his legs., it skews patriotic fraud like nothing else. Impossible to sit through its seven minutes with dry eyes'
Between The Wars - Billy Bragg
25 years on since the Miners Strike
Vincent Adejumo’s Book Notes music playlist for his book The Return of
Black Nationalism and the Death of White Supremacy
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"When I was first asked to write this, I immediately jumped at the
opportunity because my entire life has been one seemingly big musical
ensemble."
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