7pm start - free entry. A slideshow / lecture / film presentation from Mississippi Records founder Eric Isaacson telling a story of global music scenes that struggled and endeavoured during periods of authoritarianism.
| Price | Free entry |
7pm start. Free entry,
Eric Isaacson (the founder of the inspirational Mississippi Records label and shop) is touring his latest project, an audio/visual show called A People's History of Music.
Ready yourselves for a presentation of around 90-100 mins (more of an engaging performance/screening rather than academic lecture), which charts a moving and vital people's history of underground musical resistance.
Making wide, bold swings while always coming back to intricate and strange details, this show covers music from Ethiopia, Slovenia, Kenya, the USA and beyond, while drawing on Eric’s colourfully described, personal experiences of the fascist creep. It's a whirlwind presentation of archival film, sound clips and images that avoids political grandstanding, instead emphasizing vital anti-authoritarian stories of resistance through samizdat music distribution.
The Cramps, Jimmie Rodgers (The Yodeling Brakeman), Kipsigis Tribal Musicians, Sting, Scientologists, Ethiopian pop stars, Portland punks, Russian bootleggers, Spotify, Octopus, The Beatles, The Germs, African cowboys and Techno Fascists are some of the characters who will be discussed.
Eric is known for his humbly comical, singular style and for his ability to revitalize audiences through digging up buried treasures from the global music underground. He has an intuitive and captivating way of finding the kinks, idiosyncrasies and soulful stories in the histories of under-acknowledged punk, gospel, soul, blues and roots based music from around the world. Eric has previously constructed and internationally toured three other mind-altering presentations, but never one as timely as this — a must-experience sampling of audio and visual folk art.
The tour travels around Ireland and the UK and Europe. The programme and tour is a heartfelt response that pays tribute to the messages, wonder and spirit that gets embedded into music. It's a show & tell revealing how music and its players, mechanisms and audiences respond when political powers become misaligned, corrupted and sick. There are also offbeat but meaningful tangential stories, bizzaro clips and examples of the deluded attempts of power-obsessed-leaders to use music as propaganda. Eric ensures things don't get preachy and as the show progresses we never know what's going to happen next!
Show trailer can be viewed HERE.
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