ARMED LOVE 6 - FBI vs. Music w/ Aaron J. Leonard

This Wreckage

Sean KB and AP Andy

Music, Arts

4.2 • 970 Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Aaron J. Leonard, author of Whole World In An Uproar joins us to talk about the relationship between the revolutionary culture of the 60s as seen through the repressive apparatus of the FBI.

Read more from Aaron on Truthout: https://truthout.org/authors/aaron-leonard/

Including this great article about the FBI's tracking of Bob Dylan and Suze Rotolo: https://truthout.org/articles/fbi-tracking-of-bob-dylan-and-suze-rotolo-foreshadowed-future-abuses/

Also check out his book about the history of American Maoism Heavy Radicals

And his Spotify playlist for the book: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2Eo6dUNjUiDUXlMdvEDjUX

Songs: Black Flag - Louie Louie Lou Reed - Busload of Faith Country Joe and the Fish - Free Someday

Transcript

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0:26.5	Welcome to Armed Love, the Antifada Side Project, where we talk about the revolutionary counterculture of the 1960s. Joining us today is historian Aaron J. Leonard, who, along with Connor A. Gallagher, wrote Heavy radicals, the book about the formation of the Maoist tendency in the United States and the lengthy
0:31.2	FBI went to stop it. He also wrote Foksingers and the length the FBI went to stop it.
0:33.0	He also wrote Focusingers and the Bureau,
0:35.4	a book about the formation of leftist folk in the United States
0:38.8	and the length the FBI went to stop it.
0:41.9	And now he's released Whole World in an uproar,
0:45.6	a book about the radical music of the 60s, the United States,
0:49.4	including rock and soul and jazz and more, and the length the FBI went to stop parts of it and
0:55.7	eventually promote other parts of it so we'll work our way there thanks for
1:00.8	joining us Aaron how you feeling? I'm feeling good and yourself?
1:05.0	I'm feeling great going to a hardcore show after this so that's not the most political scene
1:11.0	but sometimes those guys make an interesting
1:14.0	statement we'll see okay yeah my last the closest I ever got was I was a
1:20.3	clash fan so I actually got to see them guys you know several times that's great in their
1:26.5	heyday yeah but there there was no mosh pit so but there was pogoing right did you pogo no I didn't pogo you know I I just got I saw them at
1:38.3	bonds in 1981 they were doing their Sandinista record and the show was just you know in my memory it was
1:46.8	transcendent. I'm not a dancer but I think I was dancing I think a lot of people
1:52.0	were just totally animated.
1:54.0	Another thing that would happen in those early punk shows would everybody would like
1:58.0	spit at the band. It was called gobbing.
2:00.0	Did you see any gobbing?
2:02.0	No, this was different.
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