POLS 208 Democracy Music Videos 2017

I play music videos before my lectures. They are drawn from a fairly broad range of alternative musical genres. Most are contemporary but some are classics from the decades from the 1960s to the present. I will update this blog weekly during the course of Semester One, 2017.

Pre-Lecture 1
• Jamie xx - Loud Places
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP9luRtEqjc
• PJ Harvey - The Wheel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ReW0jJkag8 

Pre-Lecture 2
• Courtney Barnett - History Eraser
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6_G5PlEXdk
• Arcade Fire - Ready to Start 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNn6mimskt0
 
  Pre-Lecture 3
• Sharon Van Etten - One Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asucnxxX83w 

• Belle and Sebastian - Party Line
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vS1Hf3CVGs

Pre-Lecture 4
• Daughter -Youth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QT5eGHCJdE

• Palma Violets - Best of Friends
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poFXWUTEs1k


Pre-Lecture 5   
• Waxahatchee - Under a Rock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNJOUIA_rDI
 • Fleet Foxes - Grown Ocean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Pgv6dKV03dA

Pre-Lecture 6
• Yumi Zouma - Barricade (Matter of Fact)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDpXasGS7D0
• Of Monsters and Men - Little Talks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghb6eDopW8I

Pre-Lecture 7
• Amy Winehouse - Valerie (Live at Glastonbury 2007)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeVUvA_BOzs
• First Aid Kit - Emmylou
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC57z-oDPLs&ob=av2e
 
Pre-Lecture 8
• Lady Lamb - All I Really Want to Do
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=780dZ5ou4jM 
• Future of the Left - 'sheena is a t-shirt salesman' 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcD2cqNT1bQ 

Pre-Lecture 9
• Fly My Pretties - Lie in the Land
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4imchwNegM&list=RDA4imchwNegM&index=1
•Shapeshifter - Monarch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4P4XNLE8cU

Pre-Lecture 10
• The Head and the Heart - Rivers and Roads
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AclhwQKlgfw
• Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWKbfoikeg

Pre-Lecture 11
• Jimi Hendrix - Star Spangled Banner Live at Woodstock 69
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKvnQYFhGCc
• Pixies - Monkey Gone to Heaven
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK3iSglbZUM

Pre-Lecture 12
• Courtney Barnett and Billy Bragg - Sunday Morning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Yg6xDAekPI
• Radiohead - No Surpises
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5CVsCnxyXg

Pre-Lecture 13
• Cat Power - Lived in Bars  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVGgGW1ZalY&nohtml5=False 
• The Decemberists - Rise to Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F1Mmr6kHpA
• Courtney Barnett - Pedestrian At Best
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-nr1nNC3ds
 
Pre-Lecture 14

• Yumi Zouma - Catastrophe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSX3_qTcQEM
• The National - I Need My Girl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-Tod1_tZdU
• The Coup - The Guillotine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acT_PSAZ7BQ

Pre-Lecture 15

• Sonic Youth - Kool Thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDTSUwIZdMk
• The Uncluded - Declicate Cycle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHYhzg8QWbI 

Pre-Lecture 16 
• The Big Moon - Cupid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6t3vNfl85E
 • Valerie June - Shakedown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6t3vNfl85E

Pre-Lecture 17

• Patti Smith - People Have the Power
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPR-HyGj2d0

Pre-Lecture 18
• Alistair Hulett - The Internationale (English/Irish version with lyrics) 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DTbashsKic
• The Go Team! - Buy Nothing Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ4f_lgdYz8

Pre-Lecture 19
• Meg Baird - Don't Weight Down the Light
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KL88DC9WwI

Pre-Lecture 20
• Little Chelsea - The Cigarette Duet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TV_128Fz2g

Pre-Lecture 21
• Arcade Fire - Wake Up (Live Reading Festival 2010)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OmMPaLmxKg
• PJ Harvey - Good Fortune
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDBZZ3uvimE

Pre-Lecture 22
• Pavement - Here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DRBYrYj144 
• Bjork - Hyperballard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZY5JL8DCF0
• Slowdive - Sugar for the Pill
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxwAPBxc0lU
•Lady Lamb - The Nothing Part II
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv4I58bKX0A


Pre-Lecture 23
• The Magnetic Fields - 83 Foxx and I
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtWw_w9loIU
• Slowdive - Star Roving
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogCih4OavoY

Pre-Lecture 24
 • Valerie June -Working Woman Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ywuF-N8xXQ

Pre-Lecture 26
• Akala - Find No Enemy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjvUMr1-AAU
• Arcade Fire - Ready to Start 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNn6mimskt0
• Tiki Taane - Dub Soldier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP-xlCFhdjk