Music & Songbooks

Ian Brennan
In fifty-nine concise and clear points, Brennan reveals how corporate media has constricted local culture and individual creativity, leading to a lack of diversity within “diversity.”

Hugh Hodges
This book collects five hundred interesting songs that addressed one alarming feature of Thatcher’s Britain or another.

Editors: Daniel Lukes & Stanimir Panayotov • Designer: Jaci Raia
Black Metal Rainbows is an anthology of radical, queer, and leftist writings and artworks that uncover black metal as a genre of openness and inclusivity.

Editors: Liam Warfield, Walter Crasshole, and Yony Leyser
The very first comprehensive overview of the movement that defied both the music underground and the LGBT mainstream community—queercore.

Richard Manning
An exploration of American roots music as an art of poor, working people counter to what academics say and show how music is essential.

Gabriel Kuhn
The highly anticipated follow up to the critically acclaimed Sober Living for the Revolution continues the reconnaissance of straight edge culture and how it overlaps with radical politics.

Editor: John Mink
A collection of the voices of activist educators from around the world who engage inside and outside the classroom from pre-kindergarten to university and emphasize teaching radical practice from the field.

Ian Brennan
A powerful exploration of the challenges facing art, music, and media in the digital era.

Mat Callahan and Yvonne Moore
An organic melding of history, music, and politics that demonstrates with remarkably colorful evidence that workers everywhere will struggle to improve their conditions of life.

Mat Callahan and Yvonne Moore
A collection of American working-class, pre–World War II folk songs.

Leon Rosselson
Pertinently, Rosselson questions what being a Jew means—is it adherence to Judaism as a religion, an ethnicity, a citizen of Israel, or someone who eats “chicken soup with knedlach”?

Mat Callahan
The Explosion of Deferred Dreams offers a critical re-examination of the interwoven political and musical happenings in San Francisco in the Sixties.

Robb Johnson
The life and times (so far!) of the UK’s greatest living songwriter are captured in a deluxe box set. 92 songs, on 5 CDs with a 64-page booklet.

"And that’s it. At eighty-one, after some sixty years of songwriting, trying to find the story, to avoid the obvious, to shun the predictable, after hundreds of songs, numerous records and CDs, this is my final recording." —Leon Rosselson

Editors: Archie Green, David Roediger, Franklin Rosemont, and Salvatore Salerno
In this book, the editors have gathered songs, rare artwork, personal recollections, discographies, and more into one big all-embracing book.

Michelle Cruz Gonzales
This memoir details Spitboy's travels while chronicling their successes and failures, and for Gonzales, discovering her own identity along the way.

George Hurchalla
The product of decades of work and multiple self-published editions, Going Underground, is the most comprehensive look yet at America’s nationwide underground punk scene.

Jon and Reed Fromer
This CD is a tribute to the San Francisco folk/blues artist whose soulful singing style and original songs about work, love, struggle, and triumph helped fuel movements for peace, human rights, and social justice.

Penny Rimbaud
The Last of the Hippies is a fiery anarchist polemic centered on the story of his friend, Phil Russell (aka Wally Hope), who was murdered by the State while incarcerated in a mental institution.

Randal Doane
Stealing represents a distinctive take on the history of punk, for no other book gives proper attention to the forces of free-form radio, long-form rock journalism, or Clash bootleg recordings.

Dave Laing
This book argues that a significant political achievement of punk was to expose the operations of power in the British entertainment industry as they were thrown into confusion by the sound and the fury of musicians and fans.

Editor: I.W.W.
A Radical Labor Classic!

Norman Nawrocki & amici
Cazzarola! is original & traditional music, songs & words either inspired by or related to the novel, CAZZAROLA! Anarchy, Romani, Love, Italy.

Featuring interviews from key figures and lyrical analysis, Venceremos gives insight into how the New Chilean Song Movement’s revolutionary anthems came to be.

Utah Phillips
Starlight on the Rails is the most complete collection of Utah’s songs ever released. Spanning 30 years of studio, live, and unreleased recordings this set includes Utah’s reflections about each song.