Joan Baez performs her new song.
An award winning documentary about Victor Jara, Chilean singer and song writer who transformed folk music into a revolutionary social movement known as “New Song” (Nueva Cancion). More info.
Trump/Nunes Story Gets Weirder. Bob Dylan | Nobel Prize. Nepotism, Impeachment & the Freedom Caucus. Tribute to Ahmed Kathrada. Parameter Ghosts.
Bernie Sanders: We Beat Right-Wing Extremists Today. Inverted Beethoven. This Is Your Brain on Terrorism. Downbound Train | Chuck Berry. Grassroots Protest Set the Stage for ACHA's Defeat.
We hear music in relation to the lowest note. What happens when we turn this relation upside down?
Much commentary on the late Chuck Berry will focus on how his songs expressed fun and teenage angst. This is the right thing to do. Yet there’s more. For example, Berry’s obsession with the comparative qualities of fast cars — most brilliantly displayed in his song “Maybellene” — did not just reflect the rise of post-WW II consumerist culture....He preferred V-8 Fords over Cadillacs because he spent several years in the late 1940s and early 1950s helping make Ford cars.
The great American radical showed how ordinary people mattered more than stars - a lesson today's celebrities could do with learning. These are strange times for popular music and politics. On the one hand, the opposition to Donald Trump now extends so deeply into the entertainment industry that the president struggled to find any real talent willing to play his inauguration.
President Trump's Bats**t Press Conference. Gimme Shelter. How Steve Bannon Sees the World. Is the Trump White House High? Trump vs. Truth.
This song expresses the urgency we all face and offers us wisdom with the words, "War, children, it's just a shot away... Love, sister, it's just a kiss away".
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