A Folk Guerrilla

A Folk Guerrilla 1969

フォークゲリラ　1969.6.14

時は、1969年6月14日、東京新宿西口地下広場はフォークソングを歌う若者達で、埋め尽くされた。1970年安保を翌年に控え、安保闘争と日本大学汚職事件・大学自治問題から発生した学生運動は、政治闘争へと発展し、そして、世界的なベトナム反戦運動も影響しフォークソングブームでもあった。

　若者たちは、フォークギターを片手に集い、プロテストソング・フォークソングを歌った。警察は過激なデモを恐れて、無届のフォーク集会を禁止するが、ギターを持った若者たちは、警官の指示に従い一時は退散するが、すぐにまた、現われ歌い始める。前もって予告するわけでもなく、「いつでも、何処でも、現れてギターを弾き、誰もが歌う」若いエネルギーは、反戦平和を掲げ、歌った。そんな光景を、ゲリラ的にフォークソングを歌う若者たちを、当時のマスコミは「フォークゲリラ」と呼んだ。

　写真で見ればわかるように、ここは東京新宿西口地下広場、毎週土曜日の夕方から集まり始め、大きなフォーク集会とその後のデモへと発展した。ベトナム戦争反対、アメリカ寄りの体制に対する不満と世界的な学生運動の高まり、国内における労働運動＝政治闘争など、過度的な時代。学生を中心とした若者たちは、体制に反発しエネルギーを燃やした。「現体制を壊すことで新しいものが生まれる＝社会改革＝市民革命」を目指して歌いまくった。

Ａ Folk Guerrilla

Shinjuku Station and Nishiguchi underground plaza in Tokyo buried by young people who sang the folk song and were carried out on June 14, 1969 at time.

In 1970, I had a revision of U.S.-Japan Security Treaty in the next year, and the student movement that occurred from treaty opposite struggle and a corruption case of Nippon University, the issue of university self-government developed to a political struggle before long.
And, the age also influenced also by worldwide Vietnamese pacifism and was a boom of the folk song.

Young people sang the fork guitar, and it gathered in one hand, and the anti-war song and the folk song were sung.
Young people who have the guitar follow the policeman's instruction though the police prohibit the fork meeting of a no report in the fear of an extreme demonstration, and it appears at once and it begins to sing one o'clock though it flees.

They did not announce it previously beforehand, and the young energy that I "appeared anywhere anytime and played the guitar, and anyone sang" raised pacifism peace and sang.
Such a spectacle was called and a mass communication at that time called young people who sang the folk song in the guerrilla "Folk Guerrilla".

Here begins to gather on the evening of a Shinjuku Station and Nishiguchi underground plaza and Saturday every week, and has developed into a big demonstration the fork meeting and afterwards as understood if it sees in the photograph.
It was an excessive age like labor movement = political battle etc. of dissatisfaction with the system of the Vietnam war opposite, American inclined to it and a worldwide campus activism that rose and were able to be put within the country.
Young people who consisted of the student repulsed to the system and burnt energy.

"= social reformation = people's revolution that the new one arises in breaking the existing regime" was dreamt, it sang, and it rolled it up.