Visan Om Gunnar Myrdal
1970 · Befria BS 2 · Sweden
- Artist
- Freedom Singers
- Title
- Visan Om Gunnar Myrdal
- Release
- Antiimperialistiska Sånger
- Year
- 1970
- Label
- Befria # BS 2
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- Swedish
- Country
- Sweden
- Genre
- Nordic Music · Progressive Folk
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation
"Visan Om Gunnar Myrdal" ("Song of Songs for Gunnar Myrdal") - (He opposed Vietnam and chaired the International Commission of Inquiry Into U.S. War Crimes in Indochina). "Vårt Sagoland" - reference to LBJ, Nixon, Spiro. "Rövarvisan" ("Robber's Song of Solomon") "Bläckfisken" ("The Octopus") "Hur Ser Friheten Ut?" ("How Does Freedom Out") "Visa Om Olof Palme" ("See About Olof Palme") - Swedish politician critical of US and Vietnam War, took part in demonstrations against the war). "Kafferepet" - reference to LBJ, Nixon "En Liten Quisling" ("A small Quisling") - reference to Diem, Saigon. About Vietnamese "traitors". "Rickard Dollarhjärta" ("Richard Dollar Heart") - protest against Nixon and Vietnam. Kent State reference "CIA-Visan" ("CIA Song")
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — Kent / Jackson State Songs
Swedish. Anti-war. All songs refer to Vietnam Befria Södern # BS-2
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
BS 2 A-B, issued by De Förenade FNL-grupperna, Husargatan 13, 411 22 Göteborg; printed by Miletryck AB. The front cover reads "Antiimperialistiska sånger" and "Freedom Singers 1970" on a red, white, blue and black grid, with a drawing of a blindfolded horse in a stars-and-stripes band beside a caricatured figure, captioned "Nu har det amerikanska monopolkapitalet tvingats byta ut en enögd häst mot en blind" [now American monopoly capital has had to swap a one-eyed horse for a blind one], and a red-toned photograph of an armed woman wading through water. The back, headed "Bekämpa USA-imperialismen", shows photographs captioned as Britta Calamnius, a teacher on Gotland selling the Vietnambulletinen and collecting for the FNL in Slite with her son, and 10,000 demonstrators outside the US embassy in Stockholm on 6 May 1970 protesting the US move into Cambodia, "Sweden's largest Vietnam…
About the artist
Collective name for the song choirs of the Swedish FNL movement (FNL-grupperna) in Stockholm and Gothenburg, late 1960s to early 1970s; released albums on the Befria Södern label. Participants included Mia Gerdin, Maria Hörnelius, Marie Selander, Curt-Eric Holmquist and Slim Lidén. Based in Sweden. [Source: Swedish Wikipedia]
Themes
From the release Antiimperialistiska Sånger
In collections
European Songs · Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years] · Kent / Jackson State Songs