Pound the Pavement #18: God Bless Graffiti
Pound the Pavement #18: God Bless Graffiti
Daniel Tucker
Josh MacPhee
Art & Culture / Abolition / Urban Studies / Partner Publisher
A new 2026 reprint of this zine originally published in 2018, slightly redesigned, some corrections, and better printing!
This issue of Pound the Pavement is a look back on—and documentation of—the God Bless Graffiti Coalition project. The God Bless Graffiti Coalition was a short lived public art project conceptualized by Josh MacPhee and Daniel Tucker, and actualized by an international network of graffiti writers, street artists, and sympathizers in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Product Details
Published: March 2018
Format: 4-color risograph printed publication
Size: 5.5 x 8.5 in
Page count: 24
2nd printing/edition of 350 copies
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Josh MacPhee is a designer, artist, and archivist. He is a founding member of both the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative and Interference Archive, a public collection of cultural materials produced by social movements based in Brooklyn, NY. MacPhee is the author and editor of numerous publications, including Strike While the Needle is Hot: A Discography of Workers’ Militancy, An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels, and Graphic Liberation: Image Making and Political Movements. He has organized the Celebrate People's History poster series since 1998 and has contributed to the art and culture of the campaigns of dozens of community organizations and unions.
Forthcoming, ships December 2026
Josh MacPhee
Preface by Grégory Pierrot
Art & Culture / Capitalism / Labor / Social Movements
In this short, graphic volume, Josh MacPhee explores the role of music and sound in the student and worker revolt on May 1968 in France through the lens of the vinyl records that emerged out of—and were produced to comment on—the struggle. From the chanson enrages that sung on the barricades, the birth of an independent and politicized music infrastructure in France, the explosive emergence of free jazz and rock scenes, and the enduring legacy and embedding of the sounds and aesthetics of '68 into experimental and pop music to this day, this book shows the impact of liberatory politics and action on our audio landscape.