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The signatories of this forum were inspired by the famous refrain of the Bérurier noir to call for a vote against the National Rally.
CULTURE – The RN? The antithesis of rock values! This is the message that the many signatories of a forum wishing to convey asking lovers of this musical genre to “ to block » at the National Rally as the legislative elections approach.
« Rock and RN are radically incompatible », Say the 230 artists and 72 labels gathered behind this column published this Wednesday, June 26, just four days before the first round. The column is also signed by journalists, media, managers, press officers, organizations and music venues who all have a link to the French rock scene.
To support the barrage against the Lepéniste party, at the top of the polls, the forum wishes to recall the historic commitment of rock internationally against racism, and more broadly against far-right ideas.
Whether it is its origins, coming from “ blues, musical genre originating from work songs sung by oppressed African-American populations », of its openness to Queer artists « tels que Little Richard ou Big Mama Thornton “, or examples of artists engaged over the last decades against ” the segregation », « the rise of the far right in the United Kingdom » or “Apartheid in South Africa “. Everything therefore seems to distance this musical movement from the ideas and values defended by the RN.
« Rock has always been at the forefront of social progress, the RN defends conservatism and, in the name of protecting heritage, would like to freeze society in the past, even a fantasized past, which never existed.also write the signatories.
Among them, we find Dionysos, Emily Loizeau, Les Garçons Bouchers, Tagada Jones, Danakil, Tryo, Didier Wampas and Les Wampas, Skip The Use and its leader Mat Bastard, Shaka Ponk, Sanseverino, FFF, Yarol Poupaud, Marcel and his Orchestra or even Cali. The complete list of signatories can be consulted online and is available at this address.
So many reasons which are now pushing the French rock scene to speak out against the possibility of seeing the far right come to power in France on July 7. Reason why they ask at the conclusion of this text to “ stand in the way of an ideology that goes against everything we defend, everything we are ».
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