Ampersand Mixtape 4: It wasn’t roaring

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This mixtape is so subversive it should come in a brown paper bag. Art and especially music often unsettle reactionary regimes, elites and establishments.

For this mixtape Charles Leonard has picked his favourite subversive songs from around the globe and tells their fascinating and often curious stories. 

It includes an infamous drinking song.

Host: Charles Leonard

Illustrator: Anastasya Eliseeva

Production: Reframe

With the support of: The French Institute of South Africa

Playlist:

Camille Bertault – My Fav’ Things
Bright Blue – Weeping
Serge Gainsbourg – Aux Armes Et Caetera (dub style)
Jimi Hendrix – Star Spangled Banner (Live At Woodstock)
Hibo Nuura – Haddii Hoobalkii Gabay (If The Artist Lets You Down)
Winston Mankunku Ngozi – Yakhal’ Inkomo
Sister Audrey – English Girl
Loretta Lynn – The Pill
Nina Simone – Mississippi Goddam
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings – This Land Is Your Land
Chumbawamba – Tubthumping
Os Mutantes – Panis Et Circenses
Ike & Tina Turner – Save The Last Dance For Me
Stan Getz & João Gilberto – The Girl from Ipanema (feat. Astrud Gilberto & Antônio Carlos Jobim)
Reuben Wilson – Groovin’
Harry Belafonte – Jump in the Line
Gabriel Yared – C’est le vent, Betty