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Same tune, different message
As events in the US have shown, there’s nothing new about the the right wing subverting radical and popular music for its own ends, says OSKAR COX JENSEN
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AMID the serious criminal offences committed during the recent breach of the US Capitol, one prominent trespass was against good taste.
Numerous commentators, including original I Three singers Marcia Griffiths and Judy Mowatt, took exception to Trump supporters singing Bob Marley classics Three Little Birds and One Love.
The sound of white nationalists appropriating Afro-Caribbean music — though all too familiar in the Britain of the 1970s and ’80s — was considered both offensive and surprising.
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