

Our Subversive Voice
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@SubversiveSong
The History and Politics of the English Protest Song, 1600–2020 – a two-year AHRC-funded research project.






Good Morning and happy 220th #birthday to Eliza Flower #BornOnThisDay 1803 in #Harlow #Essex Composer Pianist Singer Radical Thinker We have a whole celebration going on bit.ly/43HtXtR #Music #Podcast #Performance #WomenInMusic Give it a whirl and share widely!




"Flowers of Spring - Politics, Power & Poverty" April 4th 7pm bit.ly/3lofodf Free zoom concert #songs by Eliza Flower (1803-1846) #Flowers #Voices #Music #Spring #Politics #Activism #Workers #WomenComposers #VirtualChoir #WomenComposers #WomenInMusic #WomenPoets

Two weeks on Wednesday @cecilsharphouse – anyone in London, please do sign up for this talk! Such a great venue and it should be lots of fun; talking and singing Vagabonds and ballad-singers, plus an exclusive book discount code... #twitterstorians @Duckbooks




OSV is delighted to share this short film of our Latitude 2022 appearance, courtesy of documentary-maker extraordinaire @JenSShaw: oursubversivevoice.com/voice/eight-mi… Also at youtube.com/watch?v=-KGwwx…

OSV greets the new year with a deeply good bit of thinking by composer and activist @UriAgnon on 'indeterminate music' – writing pieces that make the performers' actions matter. Also on smuggling violins into the British Museum for a rowdy protest... oursubversivevoice.com/voice/making-c…











Here's a version of Good King Wenceslas that we'd like to dedicate today to @theRCN, @RMTunion, @ucu colleagues & all those fighting for fair deals in tough times #inthebleak #SupportTheStrikes #RCNStrike #NursesStrike #StandByYourPost #UCUrising #SupportRailWorkers #Solidarity