Sing Me a Song with Social Significance

A programme of performances hosted on a Soapbox Stage, drawings and screenprints. The performances were all versions of the song Sing Me a Song with Social Significance, originally written for the 1930s musical revue 'Pins and Needles' (the first-and-only trade union Broadway hit) and reproduced in the Pioneer Songbook (a 1944 publication held in the Goldsmiths Library, published to celebrate the centenary of the world's first successful consumer cooperative, the Rochdale Pioneers).

Twelve drawings of secondary artefacts - souvenirs, commemorative items and library books - relating to the research were framed on the opposite wall.

The first live performances were by The Pioneer Singers, a specially-formed choir of Goldsmiths art students. Covers of the song were also performed by The Strawberry Thieves socialist choir and three other bands and musicians: Panther Society, Laurence Carey and Macolm Benzie.

Goldsmiths MFA Fine Art Degree Show, London, 8-12 July 2010
www.goldsmiths2010.com

Photo: Michael Heilgemeir

photo: Michael Heilgemeir

Photo: Michael Heilgemeir

photo: Michael Heilgemeir

photo: ccmedia.org.uk