Music and Resistance: From Slavery to Domestic Workers Struggles

• Artist: Debra Cole
• Title: Music and Resistance: From Slavery to Domestic Workers Struggles
• Album: CNPI
• Year: 2008
• Length: 13.75 MB
• Format: Stereo 44kHz

In this powerful and lyrical piece, Debra Cole, a member of Domestic Workers United, explores the long history of music as a tool for resistance and social change.  Tracing the role of music in struggle from slavery through the civil rights movment to the present, Debra mixes interviews, songs, and her own beautiful voice to create a unique meditation on the fight for a domestic workers bill of rights.  Debra is a reporter for the Community News Production Institute, where she reports from the streets and parks of New York City, the gathering grounds for the city's domestic workers.