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Give music a chance: despite Damon and ms Dynamite, today's protest singers can't match Dylan and Lennon - Features
A line in Edwyn Collins's biggest hit, "A Girl Like You", sums up our current predicament: "Too many protest singers, not enough protest songs". The ......(Continue Reading) The Sixties between the Microgrooves: Using Folk and Protest Music to Understand American History, 1963-1973
For those trying to find American history in its topical music, the 1960s were (with apologies to Charles Dickens) the best of times and the worst of ......(Continue Reading)'Unacknowledged legislators': Poets Protest the War - Poetry Supplement
Earlier this year, Sam Hamill, poet and co-founder of the prestigious literary publisher, Copper Canyon Press, was invited to a White House literary ......(Continue Reading)Too much, man. - protest music - Brief Article - Review - sound recording review
ROCK RICHARD COOK on three survivors and one star from the glory days of pop protest Protest music was annexed by rap in the 1 980s, and the old ......(Continue Reading)Sailing away: William F. Buckley's art of revealing nothing
Miles Gone By: A Literary Autobiography By William F. Buckley Jr. Regnery Publishing, $29.95 In the years before the record industry was unmanned by Napster, nobody was better at wringing every p...(Continue Reading)
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