1. |
Murasaki
07:27
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2. |
War Department
10:15
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The words to the original hymn are:
No more shall the sound of the war-whoop be heard,
The ambush and slaughter no longer be feared.
The tomahawk, buried, shall rest in the ground,
And peace and goodwill to the nations abound.
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3. |
Matthew: Jazz Mass
01:20
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4. |
Bismillah
07:04
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6. |
El Viento
09:35
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SPANISH:
La gente gritan para justicio
Como un desierto para lluvia
Pero todavía el viento seco
Trae aviso solo de lagrimas
Tenemos la fuerza en familia
Tenemos la paz en comunidad
Pero todavía el viento seco
Trae aviso solo de miedo
Los poderosos han decido
Jugar con las vidas de personas
Cuyo piel no coincide
Con sus propias
Cambian destrucción por votos
De personas con mentes cerradas
Apuestan nuestro future
Por un sentido de pureza
¡El viento, traiga valor!
El iya me llama al justicio, a la sabiduría. Todo del mundo dice ¡Basta, basta! ¿Cuando escucharán a los hijos de Obatalá? A los poderosos el iya llama darse cuenta de nuestra canción. (Baba fururu…)
ENGLISH:
The people cry out for justice
Like a desert for water
But still the dry wind
Brings news only of tears
We have strength in our families
And peace in our communities
But still the dry wind
Brings news only of fear
The powerful have decided
To play with the lives
Of those whose skin color
Does not match their own
They trade destruction for votes
Of closed-minded people
Gambling our future
For a sense of purity
Wind, bring courage!
The iya (mother drum) calls me to justice, to wisdom. The whole world cries “Enough, enough!” When will they listen to the children of Obatalá? The iya calls them to give notice to our song. (Baba fururu…)
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8. |
Interitus
10:15
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9. |
Jess: Tolerance 101
00:52
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10. |
Wedding Hymn
11:12
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11. |
Julian: Feminism
00:54
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12. |
Herstory
05:58
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Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
More like miseducation of boys in Steubenville, the force of will
Making victims out of girls for just lying still
Oh no, Mr. Supreme Court justice
Making rules about our bodies like you just can’t trust us
Well screw this, even Malala Yousafzai
Fighting the Taliban for women and children’s rights
Would earn for a man’s dollar just nickels and dimes
And could be sold in child slavery if it came her time
Now get this—how many women you see on this stage, three?
Well the three of us are stronger than the whole U.S. army
“If Eve by herself could turn the world upside down
Then together us women will turn it back right round”
You know those words? They’re from sojourner truth
A slave in her youth
But with the confidence to rise and say “Ain’t I a woman?”
History don’t treat the Henriettas like the Henrys
But women help build everything from nations down to families
Take feminism back from the hands of the academics
Pay some pussy pushers for the politics and their polemics
Guys who think that if she wearing jeans it’s fine to rape her
Why do I feel like it’s still the world of Donald Draper
La illaha illa allah sisters
Only got one master misters
Don’t you even call us bitches
If I cook you wash the dishes
Oh…gonna pass it like Pelosi
Gonna pen it like Adichie
Gonna emanate break the state fate the hate that holds the gate
To the sky above the glass ceiling, cuz we’re progressing
We’re not screaming for no reason, this ain’t PMS-ing
Rush and Glenn can take their diatribes to the MRA’s
Cuz Lilly Ledbetter better finally get her raise
We are here for the struggle the working mom
For the girls who get raped on the night of prom
Where are you for wives who cannot choose how many kids they bear?
Where are you for women segregated from their halls of prayer?
Until we live in a world where all women can drive cars
And none suffer from FGM or obstetric fistulas
Until rape is not used as a weapon of war
Until every little girl knows what a textbook is for
We cannot say that we live in a free world
We cannot say that inequality is cured
When half the sky lives under fear and oppression
We must bring to justice each for his transgressions
These aren’t the angry ramblings of some liberal femi-nazi
It’s human rights for all—from New York to Benghazi
To start we’ve got to point out all the causes of iniquity
But down the road the hope is that we’ll all have human dignity
So remember, treat your sister like an equal
And recall what MLK said while fighting for his people
Say it once say it twice yell it out scream it
Hate cannot fight hate, it’s only love that can defeat it
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14. |
Black & Red
07:32
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they baptize the asphalt with
blood,
and wash away their sins with
sprinklers
on the golf course.
holy trinity
bang
bang
bang
another pavement christened
sanctimonious black & red.
“justified by faith,”
they say to the jury,
fresh off the
putting green,
and find forgiveness.
“rules are different
for the clergy,”
they tell the mothers.
best start wiping away the
black & red.
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15. |
Anthem of the 99%
04:42
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In, in this hour
We hold our hands and hold the tower
We look to those in hard-won power
And meet no eyes
Outside these walls
We take the blame and take their fall
We’re made to scrape and scratch and crawl
And starve on lies
Here, here is change
We brought it here so we could share
We brought it, take, it’s all for you
(For you)
(For you)
For you, my friends and I
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The Liberation Music Collective Bloomington, Indiana
The Liberation Collective is a socially-conscious big band dedicated to performing original compositions about contemporary social issues.
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