29 May 2007

Protest Song listed by University

The Centre for Political Song at the Glasgow Caledonian University exists to promote and foster an awareness of all forms of political song. At our recent Safe Water Campaign AGM we were treated to a protest song about water fluoridation - I sent this off to the Centre for Political Song and heard this morning that it has been accepted.

Photo: Rob and Jehanne Mehta performing the song

See our song here - words by Bernard Seward and music by Rob Mehta. The Centre are looking for more songs so if any blog readers out there know of any do think about contacting them. Here is their email to me:

"Many thanks for the e-mail, and for sending in the song, which we will certainly include on the website. If you have any other songs from your campaign, either now or in the future, please send them in. We at the Centre for Political Song are particularly interested in gathering in material from local campaigns such as yours. It seems that whenever an action group is formed people start to write songs to rally, sustain, promote, educate, and otherwise benefit their campaign; often these rather ephemeral songs are lost once the campaign is over. Please note that we are very short staffed at the moment, so it may be a couple of weeks before we can get the song up on the site."

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