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Paredon Records

When Barbara Dane & partner Irwin Silber founded Paredon Records in the early 1970s, great changes were taking place all around the world, including here in the USA. Paredon set out to amplify the voices of artists and activists that were full of hope and sometimes desperation, voices that expressed the struggles and victories of people standing up for peace and social justice. Barbara Dane produced nearly 50 LPs for the label before donating it to the Smithsonian Institution.

Visit Smithsonian Folkways' digital exhibition honoring Paredon’s impact and historic catalog including an overview by Dane, a complete discography and album art, playlists, archived photography, and more.

Barbara Dane Paradon - Smithosonian Catalog

Paredon Discography

Last updated 12/28/2020.
Year Artist Title Format Catalog No.
1970 Various Artists Cancion Protesta: Protest Songs of Latin America LP P-1001
1970 Various Artists Angola: A Vitoria É Certa! Victory Is Certain! LP P-1002
1970 Barbara Dane FTA! Songs of the GI Resistance LP P-1003
1970 Huey P. Newton Huey Newton Speaks LP P-1004
1971 Pepe y Flora Tengo Puerto Rico en Mi Corazón LP P-1005
1971 Men of No Property This is Free Belfast! Irish Rebel Songs of the Six Counties LP P-1006
1971 Various Artists The East is Red 3xLP P-1007
1971 Various Artists Vietnam: Songs of Liberation LP P-1008
1971 Various Artists Vietnam Will Win! LP P-1009
1971 Grupo De Experimentación Sonora Del ICAIC Cuba Va! Songs of the New Generation of Revolutionary Cuba LP P-1010
1971 Don Albizu Campos Habla Albizu Campos: Albizu Campos Speaks LP P-2501
1972 Covered Wagon Musicians We Say No to Your War! LP P-1015
1973 Daniel Viglietti Uruguay: Tear Down The Fences! ¡A Desalambrar! LP P-1011
1973 Judith Reyes Mexico: Days of Struggle LP P-1012
1973 Fidel Castro The Historic Second Declaration of Havana LP P-1013
1973 Barbara Dane I Hate the Capitalist System LP P-1014
1973 Suni Paz Brotando del Silencio: Breaking Out of the Silence LP P-1016
1973 Che Guevara Che Guevara Speaks: Habla el Che Guevara LP P-1017
1973 Chris Kando Iijima, Joanne Nobuko Miyamoto, "Charlie" Chin A Grain of Sand: Music for the Struggle by Asians in America LP P-1020
1974 Quilapayún and Hector Duvachelle Chile: The Seige of Santa Maria de Iquique: A People's Cantata of the Chilean Nitrate Miners LP P-1019
1974 Mikis Theodorakis New Songs 2xLP P-1021
1974 Various Artists Palestine Lives! Songs from the Struggle of the People of Palestine LP P-1022
1974 Red Star Singers The Force of Life LP P-1023
1974 The Human Condition with Beverly Grant Working People Gonna Rise! LP P-1024
1974 Expresión Joven Dominican Republic: La Hora Esta Llegando! The Time is Coming! LP P-1025
1975 Carlos Puebla Cuba: Songs for Our America LP P-1018
1975 Bernardo Palombo y Cantoclaro Argentina: Por El Fusil Y La Flor: The Flower and the Gun LP P-1027
1975 Bernice Johnson Reagon Give Your Hands to Struggle: The Evolution of a Freedom Fighter LP P-1028
1975 Various Artists Chile: Songs for the Resistance LP P-1030
1975 Atis Indepandan Haiti: Ki Sa Pou-N Fe? What is to Be Done? LP P-1031
1975 Estrella Artau Puerto Rico: ¡Algo se quema allá afuera! LP P-1032
1975 Various Artists What Now People? Vol. 1 LP P-2001
1976 Various Artists Italy: Avanti Popolo! Forward People! LP P-1026
1976 Various Artists Philippines: Bangon! Arise! LP P-1029
1976 Ho Chi Minh The Legacy of Ho Chi Minh: Nothing Is More Precious Than Independence and Freedom LP P-1033
1976 Grupo Jatari Ecuador: The Cry of Freedom! El Grito de Libertad! LP P-1034
1977 New Harmony Sisterhood Band ...And Ain't I a Woman? LP P-1038
1977 Men of No Property Ireland: The Final Struggle LP P-1039
1977 Various Artists What Now People? Vol. 2 LP P-2002
1978 Various Artists Viva Puerto Rico Libre! LP P-1035
1978 Andrés Jiménez Puerto Rico: Como el Filo del Machete: Like the Edge of the Machete LP P-1040
1978 Various Artists Angola: Forward, People's Power LP P-1041
1978 Caravan Thailand: Songs for Life LP P-1042
1978 Various Artists What Now People? Vol. 3 LP P-2003
1981 Leon Rosselson and Roy Bailey That's Not The Way It's Got To Be! LP P-1036
1982 Silvio Rodríguez Rabo de Nube: Tail of a Tornado: Songs of the New Cuba LP P-1045
1982 Barbara Dane When We Make it Through LP P-1046
1983 Marcel Khalifé Promises of the Storm LP P-1047
1983 Luis Godoy and Grupo Mancotal Un Son Para MI Pueblo: Songs from the New Nicaragua LP P-1048
1985 Cutumay Camones Por Eso Luchamos: Songs of the Salvadoran Struggle LP P-1050