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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw9zbTsKNAA&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1

feel that songs have played a part in many conflicts: for examplr 'The White Cliffs of Dover" which I think ia very patriotic and discusses the longing to come home from war and the desire for peace. Also the blue birds refer to our conutry summers.

"Falling in love again" by Deitrich played a stong part in the second world war addressing moral. Strong songs seem to emererge from conlict, whether pining for home, or stirring and patriotic war marches.

This video on you tube uses the Labi Siffre song which was an anti aparthide song which says 'the higher you build your walls'. Here this song has been successfully attached to the miners struggle. I think it is very effective and powerful. The words and the pictures combined create a very powerful picture. It is very emotive because it captures what we would describe as a recent historical event in which the conforntation between the state and the miners is clearly defined. The life and blood of mining communities were the mines, and when you close down a mine you kill the community. The video and the music shows the struggle of the miners to stop the destruction of the industry and their communities. To understand my work you can't look at one thing in isolation from another, you have to look at the whole thing, as a whole as it communicates and investigates many interlinking and complicated stuggles to show the nature of conflict.