Billy Bragg on the Severn stage at Shrewsbury Folk Festival 2023. Next festival: August 23-26 2024 | Day & weekend tickets on sale now: shrewsburyfolk...
Just listened to Billy's song about joining a Union. Definitely needed under the Tories. Becoming a union steward was the best thing I ever did. Billy talks a lot of sense
For those who would like to know. Billy Bragg is one of the most insightful, introspective, concerning of our world and the things that live on it....and the things that are happening to it. As well as us.
Hard to know, they might be expressing genuine personal taste, but likely these are "professional" trolls who seek out or are sent to lefty posts to slag them.
I was searching him out because I wanted to hear St. Swithins Day once again. I did love him since I heard him first some 40 years ago, outstanding musician that he ever was. Only thing I disagree , or should I better say, I'm missing is a realistic view on the developments in society. Political person, that he is by his own choice, he should have taken a stand against the totalitarian islamic rules an orders that are on the rise.
the problem with this DEI direction in Billy Bragg's work is that it deploys identity antagonisms and loses sight of the unversalist perspective that alone makes emancipatory politics real - it's of a piece with postmodern micropolitics and pseudo-Gramscian hegemony contests - victim politics - which is why there's so much the fist-shaking. this is a liberal-left politics of the petty-bourgeois professional-managerial class
And what true socialist has an audience of more than a dozen? Who gets national and international media coverage that you approve of?. Change under best of circumstances is unlikely, Bragg has been trying anyway. If we have to wait for people you approve of to reach an audience it is a 100% guarantee that there will never be change.
@@suegroves6633 Thank you. I love Billy Bragg's music and he's one of my favourites, along with The Clash and Richard Dawson. I know what he sings about and I've seen him in concert a few times. He can sing about whatever he wants, and I support that fully, but, politics wise, the relation between class and identity that he's on about fits in the petty-bourgeois and professional-managerial class zone of thought. If you want to know what I mean by that, you can find online the c.1983 essay by Ellen Meiksins Wood titled "Why Class Is Central." Petty bourgeois means the intermediary class between proletarian and bourgeois, or small bourgeois, as in the French petit. You can be very poor or very rich and also be petty-bourgeois in ideological terms. This is the class category in which you tend to find people who are in the creative class as well as the activist class, academia, the media, etc, and all of these, since the development of the New Left, are more or less agreed about the importance of identity politics, which is not the same thing as identity struggles. This has led the left down the path of anti-universal postmodern paradigms like privilege theory, intersectionality, decoloniality, critical race theory, left populism, and so on, which are anti-socialist and anti-liberal at the same time. Don't be fooled by Republican anti-wokeism and look to the best left thinkers on these issues, including Alain Badiou, Slavoj Zizek, Nancy Fraser, Cedric Johnson, Norman Finkelstein, Jodi Dean, Greg Meyerson, Richard Wolin, Vivek Chibber, Susan Neiman, Terry Eagleton, Ellen Meiksins Wood, and you could look up also my last four books on the subject. You can also learn a lot from the exchange between Zizek, Judith Butler and Ernesto Laclau in the 2000 book Contingency, Hegemony, Universality, where, IMO, Zizek wins the gold, Laclau the silver and Butler the bronze. I would add that as much as I'm a labour-oriented Marxist, I'm not a social democrat - though I am in solidarity with all brothers and sisters struggling for a better world beyond capitalist relations and beyond identitarian units, nationalism, religion, etc. And for that to be possible, the left needs to have a better grasp of the ways in which new postmodern identity paradigms weaken the left. The right grasps this better than the left, whose identity politics, like Bragg's, reinforces what Nancy Fraser refers to as "progressive neoliberalism" - the politics of people like Hillary, Obama, Kamala, and this includes the so-called Squad, Sanders and Corbyn-type politicians in some respects. I find it sad to see Billy Bragg doubling down on wokeism. To understand this better, see also the recent book by Walter Benn Michaels and Adolph Reed, No Politics But Class Politics. cheers
I'm really curious who YOU would pay to see then... A spoof band like Imagine Dragons? That said, I must say I've seen better shows of him, but his songs still stand the test of time...
@@fredvan6043 seen loads in my time from stones bowie Dylan Floyd Metallica stevie wonder u2 oasis and many more if Bragg was playing in my garden a would shut my shutters and go to the pub
@@mac-vl4ib Then don't pay to see him. But many many many do pay to see him and feel we got a bargain. Your likes and dislikes mean nothing to anyone else. But by all means comes to a Billy Bragg concert video and tell us all we're wrong.
Just listened to Billy's song about joining a Union. Definitely needed under the Tories. Becoming a union steward was the best thing I ever did.
Billy talks a lot of sense
I’ve seen BB about 50 times. Part of my life.
Still got it comrade
These Woody Guthrie Songs are so great, so great!
Billy Bragg is great. A fantastic songwriter and a great campaigner. We need more like him, if that were possible. Magic.
@@richardwilton722 he’s a gaslighting narcissistic entitled tw@t🥴😡
Great set.
Amazing Billy, such a great artist LOL
Great set. Need to see you live 😊
Well worth it. I’ve seen him over 50 times.
Outstanding. My number one influence.
For those who would like to know. Billy Bragg is one of the most insightful, introspective, concerning of our world and the things that live on it....and the things that are happening to it. As well as us.
he also believes women have penises
How sad the comments on here are! If you don't like him what are you doing searching him out on RUclips?
Hard to know, they might be expressing genuine personal taste, but likely these are "professional" trolls who seek out or are sent to lefty posts to slag them.
I was searching him out because I wanted to hear St. Swithins Day once again. I did love him since I heard him first some 40 years ago, outstanding musician that he ever was.
Only thing I disagree , or should I better say, I'm missing is a realistic view on the developments in society.
Political person, that he is by his own choice, he should have taken a stand against the totalitarian islamic rules an orders that are on the rise.
The Left writes the best songs...
dude sold out.
150 tickets?
capitalism sucks
Billy used to be more funny in talks between songs, less preachy
Hard to be funny when There's a Genocide going on...
how dare he pontificate about women
Could you just explain what you mean by that?
Yawn...🥱
My cringeometer is off scale, I'm sure after Billy's set things got better..😅
Too much politics not enough music
Lol - new to Billy, are you?
music is political
LOL - you're new to folk music ain't ya?
Shrewsbury Folk Festival
Billy you never were pretty or relevant
@@larrylegs6012 LMAO.
@@larrylegs6012 I reckon you ar a connoisseur of Woody's work?
@@larrylegs6012 🔔 end
Still made loads of money weather you like him oh not
@thaynereeve8093 whether 🥴
the problem with this DEI direction in Billy Bragg's work is that it deploys identity antagonisms and loses sight of the unversalist perspective that alone makes emancipatory politics real - it's of a piece with postmodern micropolitics and pseudo-Gramscian hegemony contests - victim politics - which is why there's so much the fist-shaking. this is a liberal-left politics of the petty-bourgeois professional-managerial class
🥱 yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn
And what true socialist has an audience of more than a dozen? Who gets national and international media coverage that you approve of?. Change under best of circumstances is unlikely, Bragg has been trying anyway. If we have to wait for people you approve of to reach an audience it is a 100% guarantee that there will never be change.
What a tit
Billy sings about things that are relevant . Billy's politics are definitely not petty or bourgeois.
@@suegroves6633 Thank you. I love Billy Bragg's music and he's one of my favourites, along with The Clash and Richard Dawson. I know what he sings about and I've seen him in concert a few times. He can sing about whatever he wants, and I support that fully, but, politics wise, the relation between class and identity that he's on about fits in the petty-bourgeois and professional-managerial class zone of thought. If you want to know what I mean by that, you can find online the c.1983 essay by Ellen Meiksins Wood titled "Why Class Is Central." Petty bourgeois means the intermediary class between proletarian and bourgeois, or small bourgeois, as in the French petit. You can be very poor or very rich and also be petty-bourgeois in ideological terms. This is the class category in which you tend to find people who are in the creative class as well as the activist class, academia, the media, etc, and all of these, since the development of the New Left, are more or less agreed about the importance of identity politics, which is not the same thing as identity struggles. This has led the left down the path of anti-universal postmodern paradigms like privilege theory, intersectionality, decoloniality, critical race theory, left populism, and so on, which are anti-socialist and anti-liberal at the same time. Don't be fooled by Republican anti-wokeism and look to the best left thinkers on these issues, including Alain Badiou, Slavoj Zizek, Nancy Fraser, Cedric Johnson, Norman Finkelstein, Jodi Dean, Greg Meyerson, Richard Wolin, Vivek Chibber, Susan Neiman, Terry Eagleton, Ellen Meiksins Wood, and you could look up also my last four books on the subject. You can also learn a lot from the exchange between Zizek, Judith Butler and Ernesto Laclau in the 2000 book Contingency, Hegemony, Universality, where, IMO, Zizek wins the gold, Laclau the silver and Butler the bronze. I would add that as much as I'm a labour-oriented Marxist, I'm not a social democrat - though I am in solidarity with all brothers and sisters struggling for a better world beyond capitalist relations and beyond identitarian units, nationalism, religion, etc. And for that to be possible, the left needs to have a better grasp of the ways in which new postmodern identity paradigms weaken the left. The right grasps this better than the left, whose identity politics, like Bragg's, reinforces what Nancy Fraser refers to as "progressive neoliberalism" - the politics of people like Hillary, Obama, Kamala, and this includes the so-called Squad, Sanders and Corbyn-type politicians in some respects. I find it sad to see Billy Bragg doubling down on wokeism. To understand this better, see also the recent book by Walter Benn Michaels and Adolph Reed, No Politics But Class Politics. cheers
I had no idea who he is. The first 16 min is full of blah, blah, blah. The music is full of blah, blah, blah. What a waste of time.
That says a lot more about you than about BB's music, really...
Plastic politician with a guitar every so called song the same boring fart imagine paying to see him 😂
I'm really curious who YOU would pay to see then... A spoof band like Imagine Dragons? That said, I must say I've seen better shows of him, but his songs still stand the test of time...
@@fredvan6043 seen loads in my time from stones bowie Dylan Floyd Metallica stevie wonder u2 oasis and many more if Bragg was playing in my garden a would shut my shutters and go to the pub
@@mac-vl4ib Actually the question was purely rhetorical, but anyway: whatever.
@@fredvan6043 nothing obvious about that dear boy
@@mac-vl4ib Then don't pay to see him. But many many many do pay to see him and feel we got a bargain. Your likes and dislikes mean nothing to anyone else. But by all means comes to a Billy Bragg concert video and tell us all we're wrong.
Boring.