Without Joan Baez, its hard to say what the intersection of American music and social justice would look like, if it had ended up looking like anything at all. Music, of course, is not inherently ...
Protest songs have been part of American history for centuries — from “Yankee Doodle” during the Revolutionary War period to “Okie from Muskogee” by Merle Haggard to Kendrick Lamar’s “Alright” — and ...
Seeger was shaped by the 1930s, Baez by the 1960s, and both, like Dylan, had a moment of decision that defined their allegiances. By Thomas Doherty Based on Elijah Wald’s hour-by-hour countdown Dylan ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. In his latest Dean’s A-List Interview, Dean ...
The quip came from Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello, perfectly capturing the mood of joyful resistance that pervaded San Francisco’s Masonic Auditorium, which was sold out on Saturday in honor ...
While they get rich on the profits that I lose And leaving me here with the working girl blues.” Born in West Virginia in 1935, Hazel Dickens lived and understood the experiences of working people — ...