{"id":41599,"date":"2019-07-08T12:36:59","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T11:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/lee-fields-recounts-the-struggle-for-afro-american-civil-rights-in-wake-up-music-video\/"},"modified":"2020-05-10T21:31:37","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T20:31:37","slug":"lee-fields-recounts-the-struggle-for-afro-american-civil-rights-in-wake-up-music-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/lee-fields-recounts-the-struggle-for-afro-american-civil-rights-in-wake-up-music-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee Fields recounts the struggle for Afro-American Civil Rights in &#8216;Wake Up&#8217; music video"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"pam-featured-content\" ><iframe  class=\"pam-featured-content\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/557uMe2p8nA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/h4>\n<h4>The\u00a0&#8220;soul survivor&#8221; illustrates his committed track &#8220;Wake Up&#8221;\u00a0by tracing the story of black American&#8217;s struggles.<\/h4>\n<p>Last April,<span style=\"color: #333333;\"> <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/lee-fields\/\">Lee Fields<\/a> <\/span>released\u00a0<em>It Rains Love<\/em>, a soulful new effort featuring his loyal musicians The Expressions. In this release, he deals with one of his favourite topics, Love, with a both authentic and modern sound.<\/p>\n<p>The soulman just released the music video for &#8220;Wake Up&#8221;, one of his most committed songs in the album. El Oms&#8217; unique animation style draws a parallel between the struggle of Civil Rights during the XXth century and current issues like police brutality and the wall on the Mexican border.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Aren&#8217;t you tired of all these lies?<br \/>\nTime to wake up, open up your eyes<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t be led in the wrong direction<br \/>\n&#8216;Cause it&#8217;s time for mass correction&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>It Rains Love,\u00a0<\/em>released on April 5th on\u00a0Big Crown Records.\u00a0Order it on the <span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/bigcrownrecords.com\/store\/it-rains-love\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">label&#8217;s website.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h5>Read Next\u00a0:\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/july-5-1975-when-cape-verdeans-raised-their-arms-up-and-shouted-for-freedom-and-independence\/\">July 5, 1975: when Cape Verdeans raised their arms up and shouted for freedom and independence<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0&#8220;soul survivor&#8221; illustrates his committed track &#8220;Wake Up&#8221;\u00a0by tracing the story of black American&#8217;s struggles. Last April, Lee Fields released\u00a0It Rains Love, a soulful new effort featuring his loyal musicians The Expressions. In this release, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":27236,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[5958],"location":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41599"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=41599"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=41599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}