{"id":47960,"date":"2016-04-19T21:42:31","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T19:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/?p=47960"},"modified":"2016-04-19T21:42:31","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T19:42:31","slug":"the-community-of-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/the-community-of-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"The Community of Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"PJ Harvey - The Community Of Hope\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qsLqsqbObyg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I denne uge kom omsider et album, jeg har gl\u00e6det mig til l\u00e6nge, <em>The Hope Six Demolition Project<\/em> med PJ Harvey. Efter i mange \u00e5r at have skrevet nogle st\u00e6rkt personlige sange, har hun i de seneste \u00e5r kastet sig ud i samfundskritik, og det g\u00f8r hun godt. <em>Let England Shake<\/em> var det krigen og dens konsekvenser for soldaterne og civilbefolkningen, der var temaet. P\u00e5 det nye album er det udgr\u00e6nsningen og uligheden, PJ Harvey tager op. Ogs\u00e5 det nye album er rigtig vellykket.<\/p>\n<p>Sangen &#8220;The Community of Hope&#8221; tager udgangspunkt i Hope VI, en del af Ward Seven, som er et socialt belastet kvarter i Washington D.C., hvor gentrificeringen er ved at sl\u00e5 igennem \u2013 og det er ogs\u00e5 herfra albummet har sin titel. De gamle bygninger rives ned, nye bliver opf\u00f8rt, middelklassen flytter ind og arbejderklassen m\u00e5 flytte ud, uden at kunne f\u00e5 gl\u00e6de af denne form for byfornyelse. (Det er et trist f\u00e6nomen,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hanshuttel.dk\/wordpress\/2015\/07\/23\/paa-cykel-i-en-britisk-koloni\/\"> jeg skrev lidt om her sidste \u00e5r<\/a>, da jeg selv var i USA.) Selve sangens titel er <a href=\"https:\/\/www.communityofhopedc.org\">navnet p\u00e5 en organisation, der netop arbejder for at hj\u00e6lpe lavindkomstfamilier i USAs hovedstad.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Musikvideoen ovenfor er optaget netop i Hope VI. Afslutningen, hvor det lokale kirkekor synger om den Wal-Mart, der var planer om at placere i n\u00e6rheden, er bizart fascinerende. Og den meget i\u00f8refaldende og <em>upbeat<\/em> melodi er i grel kontrast til sangens tekst.<\/p>\n<p>I USA har der v\u00e6ret negative reaktioner p\u00e5 denne sang \u2013 hvad bilder en udefra kommende (Harvey er som bekendt engl\u00e6nder) sig ind at skrive s\u00e5 negativt om USA? Men kritikerne overser at sangen jo tv\u00e6rtimod udstiller alle de negative beskrivelser af de s\u00e5kaldte &#8220;ghettoer&#8221; og af dem, der bor der, som kommer fra mennesker der kun ser de p\u00e5g\u00e6ldende kvarterer udefra. Pr\u00f8v at t\u00e6nke p\u00e5 hvordan danske politikere taler om Vollsmose og Mj\u00f8lnerparken og Gellerup og Aalborg \u00d8st.<\/p>\n<p>Herunder er teksten til sangen. D\u00f8m selv.<\/p>\n<p><em>Here&#8217;s the Hope Six Demolition Project<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Switching down the Benning Road<\/em><br \/>\n<em> The well-known &#8220;pathway of death&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<em> At least that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m told<\/em><br \/>\n<em> And here&#8217;s the one sit-down restaurant<\/em><br \/>\n<em> In Ward Seven, nice<\/em><br \/>\n<em> OK, now this is just drug town, just zombies<\/em><br \/>\n<em> But that&#8217;s just life<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In the Community of Hope<\/em><br \/>\n<em> The Community of Hope<\/em><br \/>\n<em> The Community of Hope<\/em><br \/>\n<em> The Community of Hope, hope, hope, hope<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Here&#8217;s the highway pathway of death and destruction<\/em><br \/>\n<em> South Capitol is its name<\/em><br \/>\n<em> And the school that looks like a shithole<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Does that look like a nice place?<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Here&#8217;s the old mental institution<\/em><br \/>\n<em> And the Homeland Security Base<\/em><br \/>\n<em> And here&#8217;s God&#8217;s Deliverance Centre<\/em><br \/>\n<em> A deli called M.L.K<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>And The Community of Hope<\/em><br \/>\n<em> The Community of Hope<\/em><br \/>\n<em> The Community of Hope<\/em><br \/>\n<em> The Community of Hope, hope, hope, hope<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>They&#8217;re gonna put a Walmart here<\/em><br \/>\n<em> They&#8217;re gonna put a Walmart here<\/em><br \/>\n<em> They&#8217;re gonna put a Walmart here&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_middle\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/the-community-of-hope\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"dark\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"225px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"fb-share-button  \" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/the-community-of-hope\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"small\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I denne uge kom omsider et album, jeg har gl\u00e6det mig til l\u00e6nge, The Hope Six Demolition Project med PJ Harvey. Efter i mange \u00e5r at have skrevet nogle st\u00e6rkt personlige sange, har hun i de seneste \u00e5r kastet sig ud i samfundskritik, og det g\u00f8r hun godt. Let England Shake var det krigen og &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/the-community-of-hope\/\" class=\"more-link\">L\u00e6s videre <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Community of Hope<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_middle\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/the-community-of-hope\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"dark\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"225px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"fb-share-button  \" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/the-community-of-hope\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"small\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-rocknroll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}