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![A Grain of Sand: Music for the Struggle by Asians in America](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/1973Call Number: Vin 015Format: VinylProducers: Paredon Records, Chris Kando Iijima, Joanne Nobuko Miyamoto, Charlie ChinCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Folk songs by a Japanese-American song writing collective that protests racism and imperialism in America. Lyrics also express support for other solidarity movements, particularly that of African-Americans and Latin Americans, as well as the political impetus for a socialist state. Notably the first Asian American music album. Liner notes includes a lengthy political statement by the artists.
![Better Read Than Dead: Compilation of Artists](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/1996Call Number: Vin 073Format: VinylProducers: AK Press Audio, EpitaphCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Produce by AK Press, a cooperative distributing and publishing literature organization, this album is a collection of anarchist and socialist themed songs by various artists. The album includes the 1996 AK distribution catalog.
![The Only Solution; Another Revolution: The Fatima Mansion](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/1991Call Number: Vin 076Format: VinylProducers: Radioactive RecordsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
This two song record starts with "Blues for Ceausescu", which a sarcastic lyrics about democracy and diversion of rich and power. "Chemical Gosh" lyrics discuss drugs and division of rich and poor.
![Break the Chains: Prairie Fire](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/1976Call Number: Vin 083Format: VinylProducers: One Spark MusicCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
For the US bicentennial Mat Callahan and Yvonne Moore composed revolutionary songs for the working class. Songs like "Let's Get 'em off Our Backs (200 Years is Long Enough)" speak about the unfair and unjust ways the American labor forces is treated and paid. Themes include the fight for unions and the stark contrast between the upper class and the working class.
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