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Fuck the flag
In addition to writing political songs, the band also has an activist focus. "It's very ... or not. In the end nothing worth getting has ever been gotten without a good political discussion and ... change can happen." [Anti-Flag's latest album, A Benefit for Victims of Violent Crime, was ...
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The Petrograd of the West
extraordinary industrial and political militancy in the west of Scotland in the second decade of the 20th ... officers carrying out the orders of the British government. Here, as elsewhere on the album, Hulett ... Rebuild and fight on cry the ghosts of Red Clyde. This collection represents the art of political song at ...
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8 Mile: It's all about class
Crazy insane, or insane crazy?" — Eminem These words were rapped by Eminem on his latest album. It ... because someone uses sexist language doesn't mean they can't make a coherent political ... political analysis. [For a different perspective on the film, check out Kathy Newnam's review in GLW ...
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In defence of reggae's 'overworked themes and topics'
Garnett (Bobby) Pottinger. On the album they are joined by some of the leading lights of the seemingly ... musically talented and politically progressive people are continuing to swim against the stream. It's ... performer to use their music as a means of expressing political ideas or criticising social ills. This view ...
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Music, business and righteous bards
almost a million albums and continues to refuse offers to sign with major labels. A few years ago, back ... 100% of the profit for themselves. In my time in the music business — as political singer- songwriter, ... uncompromisingly political CD, The Bottom Line. Other veteran performers, such as Irish singer-songwriter Andy ...
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Billy Bragg — this machine bombs Belgrade
Bragg's current tour is to promote his new album Mermaid Avenue, made up of previously un-released Woody ... a political songwriter", he said ad nauseam on Triple J, "I'm an honest songwriter". ... That's not quite true. Bragg still has politics; they've just changed. From an early 1980s alignment ...
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Jello Biafra: the 'cultural terrorist'
Livid Festival where BRENDAN GREENHILL asked him about music, US politics and his spoken-word ... performances as a tool of dissent. Biafra's political message is unity against the corporate/state ... I came out with a bunch of stuff which ended up on the No More Cocoons album and I realised quickly that ...
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Music, revolution and the '60s
a union of song and politics, and those who were ambivalent or merely dabbled in the political turmoil. ... political insurrection as Jagger was more moved by the violence (it "gives me a really nice buzz") ... than the politics. The Stones donated some profits to Black Panther breakfast programs for ghetto ...
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The wanderings of a Zen Marxist
attempt of Lennon to mix rock and roll with radical politics. Born in Liverpool in 1940, Lennon imbibed ... this was inherently political, but Lennon wanted to be "more than a Beatle" and explored the ... world of politics. In 1966, he publicly defied the Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein, and denounced ...
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Anti-drunk laws noticeably hypocritical
the political economy of Lily Allen's new album were noticeably increasing in volume and ...
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Billy Bragg: Time for the voiceless to use music again
for the black community. Punk was galvanised into action by The Clash, whose debut album featured ... so later, the first political activism that I ever took part in was the first Rock Against Racism ... post-modernism that has warped the music scene to such an extent that musicians who write ostensibly political ...
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Not stone throwing: Phil Monsour’s new CD hurls rock
The Ghosts of Dier Yassin is a great rock album with intelligent and meaningful lyrics to boot. Its ... politics and human rights and is a lifetime music enthusiast.] July 9, 2012 929 Phil Monsour. Culture ...
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Subhuman punks tour Australia
features the 1981 line-up that recorded their debut EP Demolition War and classic albums such as The Day ... do about it. The main process this engenders is a re-evaluation of social, personal and political ...
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Marcel Khalife ― radical composer, oud master and performer
named UNESCO Artist for Peace for his artistic achievement and humanitarian contributions. The political ... instrumental recordings add up to more than 20 albums and DVDs. MarcelKhalife.com says: “Since 1982, Marcel ...
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Violeta Parra- mother of the New Chilean Song Movement
another album, that included two songs in French. It is also around this time (1962) when she composed her ... folkloric culture. However, the political climate was not very positive for her project. For the government, ...
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'Uncle Sam needs your help again'
albums in 1967 — Electric Music for the Mind and Body along with I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin-To-Die — many ... hawking their clothing lines and name-brand perfumes than in any meaningful form of political ...
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John Trudell's poetic arrows
undeniably can be classified as political. “The more evil the Empire, the more paranoid the society”, is ... great AKA Graffitti Man album, the prospect of a very real imperial showdown looms. Trudell himself ...
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Getting the word out about cultural activism
And I believe that where there's appropriate political analysis there can and should be cultural ... The 18-song album features Turners' band, the Devil's Advocates, and the United 32s. E-mail ...
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Write on: letters to the editor
recently released South Park album. Which is fairly ironic because the dialogue in South Park satirises the ... alleged conduct until you talk to a lawyer. Political activists may get bail from a peaceful demonstration ...
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Transcending barriers
tracks are first takes, capturing the "live moment". The album features the imaginative flair ... cultural and political awareness. "It functions as a voice to resist that which oppresses or creates ...
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Black 47: not your usual diddly diddly dee
albums. There are no breaks between songs, so the effect is of one long, mad whiskey-dance building ... written on Irish politics and cultural topics for a number of progressive publications.] November 3, 1999 ...
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African blues or the blues in Africa?
Another school, rooted in a wider sociological and political view, argued that African oral traditions ... blues. The release of Toure's self-titled first album in the UK and the US in 1987, followed by ...
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Ozomatli: The sound of the United States' future
that musical and political hothouse emerged Ozomatli. As Bella told the July 4 north England edition of ... the Big Issue: "I have very little faith in the American political system. Whatever we can do to ... Ozomatli's self-titled album (released by Almo Sounds, through Festival) is a mix of great dance music and ...
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Gurrumul bio highlights impact of Aboriginal musicians
Life and Music: “All these issues had been spoken of in a politely insistent way for a long time, but ... his native Yolngu languages, with smatterings of English) had on her: “When that first solo album of ... endangered. Hillman writes that Gurrumul’s songs don’t touch on politics much ― unlike his uncle, who, when he ...
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Oz and East Timor musicians get together
studies in with political work, as we've been doing for 20 years now. So it came as a pleasant ... a compilation album to raise funds for East Timor, and would I help him get it together. Young Timorese in ... poets, Francisco Borja da Costa, and it was used as a rallying call during the early years of political ...