ʻO Silber me Barbara Dane
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IHoʻomanaʻo ʻia ʻo rwin Silber i kēia lā ma ke ʻano he mea hana mua i ka hoʻāla hou ʻana o nā mele o ke kūlanakauhale, i ulu aʻe mai ka 1940s a i hoʻopau ʻia i nā makahiki 1960. Ua make ʻo ia i ka lā 8 Kepakemapa ma Oakland, Kaleponi mai nā pilikia o ka maʻi o Alzheimer.
Ua hānau ʻia ʻo Silber ma Manhattan ma ʻOkakopa 17, 1925 i ka manawa kūpono e ʻike ai i kona mau makahiki hoʻokumu i ka wā o ka Great Depression. E like me ka nui o kona mau hoa noho ma New York City, ua komo ʻo Silber i ka Young Communist League a laila ka Communist Party. Ma ke ʻano he haumāna ma Brooklyn College, ua hoʻonohonoho ʻo ia i ka American Folksay Group. Ma o kāna hui pū ʻana me ka poʻe e like me Pete Seeger a me Alan Lomax, ua lilo ʻo Silber i ʻāpana koʻikoʻi o ka hui ʻana o Seeger's post-war People's Songs, he hui kūʻokoʻa i alakaʻi ʻia e nā mea pena kiʻi ʻaʻole wale i ʻimi e hoʻolaha i nā mele o nā poʻe ʻēheu hema, akā. Ua ulu aʻe i ʻoihana aupuni no kā lākou hoʻolaha a me ka hoʻokele. Aia ʻo Silber ma ke komite hoʻokumu o People's Songs a he mea hāʻawi pinepine i kāna nūpepa, Ka Nupepa Mele Kanaka, he mea nui e kamaʻilio ai ma waena o ka poʻe mele hema a nāna i hoʻopuka i nā mele koʻikoʻi.
Ma ka makahiki 1948, ma muli o ka hoʻoikaika ʻana o ka ʻano kūpono o ka lāhui, ua hāʻule ka hui i ka maunu ʻulaʻula a ua hoʻopau ʻia. I ka makahiki 1950, ua pau ka nupepa. ʻO Silber, ka ʻike ʻana i ka ikaika o kahi nūpepa aupuni e hoʻolaha a hoʻolaha i nā mele kumuhana hou, i hana ʻia Mele mai! ma hope o ia makahiki. Ua lawelawe ʻo ia ma ke ʻano he mea hoʻoponopono a hiki i ka makahiki 1968, e paʻi ana i nā ʻatikala a me nā mele na Woody Guthrie, Seeger, Malvina Reynolds, Leadbelly, a me nā mea hana kiʻi ʻē aʻe he nui e hana ana ma nā pā kula a me nā hale kofe.
I ka wā i hāʻawi ʻia ai nā kiʻi o ka hoʻāla hou ʻana o ka poʻe mua i ka hanauna o ka makahiki 1960, ʻo Silber's magazine (me ka Sis Cunningham's Kauhola) ua lilo i mea kaulana loa no kona paʻi ʻana i nā mele e Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Joan Baez, Judy Collins, a me nā hōkū e piʻi aʻe ana a laila kūʻai aku i nā ʻahaʻaina ʻōiwi. ʻO ka uhi o kēia mau mea pena, a me kā lākou mau mele hou, i hana ʻia Mele mai! baibala a ka poe mele. I ka makahiki 1965, i ka hele ʻana o Dylan i ka uila, ua ʻike ʻo Silber iā ia iho i waena o ke kaua ʻoiai ʻo kāna ʻōlelo hoʻohewa ʻana i ʻike ʻo Dylan e hōʻole ana e hoʻopuka i nā mele hou i loko o ka puke. ʻO ka hakakā ʻana o Silber me Dylan, a me nā hoʻouka kaua ʻana i nā mea kaulana ʻē aʻe o ka lā, me Phil Ochs, ʻo ia hoʻi ua hāʻule ʻo Silber i loko o ke aloha ʻole. I ka makahiki 1968, ua noi ʻia ʻo ia e haʻalele Mele mai! Ua ʻike ʻia kona kūpaʻa paʻakikī i ka hema kahiko ʻoiai ua ʻoki ʻo ia i nā pilina me ka Communist Party i ka makahiki 1955. ʻO ka mea kupanaha, ua lilo ʻo Silber i mea hoʻoikaika i ka SDS offshoot, ka Maoist New Communist Movement, a hele aku. e kakau a hooponopono i ka lakou nupepa, ka kahu.
I loko o kona ola a pau, hiki ke wehewehe maikaʻi ʻia ʻo Irwin Silber ma ke ʻano he mea hana moʻomeheu. I ka pau ʻana o nā makahiki 1950, ua kāhea ʻia ʻo ia i mua o ke Kōmike Hana ʻAʻole ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa, ua haʻi poina ʻo ia i ke Kōmike ʻo kāna hana ma ke kula ʻo Jefferson School of Social Science i alakaʻi ʻia e ka Communist Party e aʻo ana i ka hula square. I kona mau makahiki me Mele mai!, ua hoʻoikaika ʻo ia e kālele i nā mele kūʻē—ʻo nā pono kīwila, ke kaua Vietnam, ka neʻe ʻana o nā wahine, a me kekahi mau paio no ka hoʻokuʻu ʻia. I ka makahiki 1964, ua mare ʻo Silber i ka leo leo / activist jazz ʻo Barbara Dane a ua hoʻomaka lāua e hoʻopaʻa a hoʻolaha i nā mele o ke kipi a puni ka honua. Ua mālama ʻo ia a me Dane i kā lāua lepili moʻolelo ponoʻī, ʻo Paredon, e mālama i ke mele a hiki i ka makahiki 1980, hāʻawi ʻia iā Folkways.
Ua paʻi ʻo Silber i kekahi mau puke e pili ana i nā mele mele a ua kākau i kekahi mau hana ma ka politika. Ma 2004, kākau ʻo ia i kahi moʻolelo o Lester Rodney, ka mea kākau haʻuki no ka nūpepa Communist Party. Mea hana i kela la i keia la, hoʻopau i ka pōʻai o kona ola radical a me nā manawa.
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He kanaka hana moʻomeheu a hoʻonohonoho hana ʻo John Pietaro mai New York City.