Pound the Pavement #37: Mace & Grenades: A Brief History of Anti-facist Music (Mixtape!)
Pound the Pavement #37: Mace & Grenades: A Brief History of Anti-facist Music (Mixtape!)
Josh MacPhee
Mace & Grenades is a 60-minute cassette collecting 21 songs, mixed from vinyl records by me (Josh MacPhee) and edited to tape by Jim McHugh at The P.I.T. in Los Sures, Brooklyn. The songs trace a loose path through a broad conception of antifascist movements, from Indigenous America and Aboriginal Australia to anti-Nazi tracks, songs from the fight against Pinochet in Chile to the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa. All tracks are from records I've been collecting over the past decade, with recordings from Angola, Australia, Canada, Chile, France, Italy, Lebanon, Northern Ireland, Norway, Philippines, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, and the US. The oversized j-card is 2-color printed, contains a complete track list, as well as a short written piece on anti-fascism and music.
This cassette is an edition of 250. It is Pound the Pavement #37/P.I.T. Tapes #2.
This mixtape is now a benefit for the Prairieland Defendants. A $500 initial donation has already been given.
Product Details
ISBN: 9781945335860
Published: March 2025
Format: Audio
Size: 60 min. audio cassette in jewel case
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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.