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Songs of Protest
SONGS OF PROTEST Rhino Records CD (1991), $11.98. WORLD WAR I SONGS Volume 1 of 2 from Mark Best, www.besmark.com/ww1b.html. $11.95 for tape, $16.96 for CD, plus $3.95 shipping/handling. (The...(Continue Reading) 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)Talkin' about a revolution: hungry for politically charged music? Listen up to a new generation of protest songs
It was really two songs that got me started thinking about the power of peace music. First was the plaintive wail of Bob Dylan in his 1964 classic, "The Times They Are A-Changin'." The se...(Continue Reading)Conflicting accounts: Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam - Film As Text
Bill Couturie's Dear America (1987) provides a view of the American involvement in Vietnam in a way that proves both bipartisan and viscerally emotional....(Continue Reading)Lucinda Williams: songs of experience - Interview
Mining her romantic foibles and rebellious soul since her 1979 debut, Lucinda Williams just keeps striking pay dirt. Her songs--ranging from country ......(Continue Reading)
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