Steve Martin fills a gap in the seasonal hymnal by creating a song for atheists. Musically appropriate, if irreverent. Find more Alt-Xmas music here.
Burt Lancaster stars as the religious huckster Elmer Gantry in the 1960 movie version of Sinclair Lewis' novel. Find more Alt-Xmas music here.
Although the great red scare of the 1950s almost erased the anti-lynching song Strange Fruit from the public arena, the strange fruit allusion - lynched bodies hanging from trees – was one of genius. It had gotten under our culture’s skin, and as time went on, it seeped out of its pores.
Nina Simone's album Pastel Blues, released in 1965, included her version of Strange Fruit.
Billie Holiday created the powerful classic rendition of the anti-lynching song by Abe Meeropol.
Stephen Colbert: Nuclear Option in the Senate. Woody -- All You Fascists Are Bound to Lose. Siats - A New Mega Dinosaur. Every Nuclear Test. Music Love Army: We Are Not for Sale.
Woody Guthrie's guitar famously bore the legend, This Machine Kills Fascists. Here are the Woody lyrics (probably dating to the 1940s) that most directly spell out this message, with appropriate pictures of contemporary bad guys. Woody's confidence in the victory over fascism was the flip side of his confidence in the victory of the common people who, he sang, were Bound for Glory.
NC MUSIC LOVE ARMY releases We Are Not For Sale: Songs of Protest on November 26, 2013, on vinyl, CD and for download with worldwide distribution through Redeye Distribution. NC Music Love Army are a united force composed of your favorite musicians set to battle against the regressive legislation of the current North Carolina administration. We are outraged. We fight with songs. We win with your ears and with your help. More information and donations toward this crowdfunded record can be made at: http://ncmusiclovearmy.org. Proceeds from album sales and live performances benefit Progress NC and Planned Parenthood of Central NC, two groups on the front lines of our fight to return sane governance to our beloved state.
'60 Minutes' Benghazi controversy. South Africa flash mob. Evolution of Mars. Somethin' Happenin' Here. Romneycare lesson.
In Port Elizabeth, South Africa, shopping center the international award-winning Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University Choir delights shoppers and passers-by.
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