Blackhand Nakasi Labor Band Releases Debut Album
黑手那卡西樂團發表首張專輯
Source: From the Margins to the Streets — Blackhand Nakasi’s Social-Movement Music Practice
From: Art Perspectives ACT, Issue 49, pp. 64–71
Date: 2012/01/01 · Author: Chen Po-wei
Blackhand Nakasi — Workers’ Band was founded in 1996 by workers and labour organisations, commonly known as “Blackhand Nakasi” or simply “Blackhand.” In 1997 they released Taiwan’s first album of labour-movement protest songs, Fú Qì Gè Pì (Luck My Ass). Over the following two decades they continued to collaborate with social-movement groups, running collective songwriting workshops to teach instrument playing and music composition, enabling working people to seize music and art as cultural tools. Their repertoire spans issues from the Losheng Sanatorium and urban renewal to sex work, making them one of the most widely heard independent bands in student and activist circles.
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- Blackhand Nakasi Workers’ Band Timeline (Multitude)
- Popular Music as Social Movement: An Opening (Chen Po-wei & Ho Tung-hung)
- Persistence from the Bottom — Blackhand Nakasi’s 11th Anniversary (Drifting Island Blog)
- Youth without Collapse: Taiwan’s First Band Born for Social Movements — Blackhand Nakasi’s Last Night (Chen Po-wei)