Mimi is Joan Baez’s kid sister.
Richard was a beat poet and writer most famous for his only novel that he completed “Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me” before he died in a motorcycle accident in his late 20s.
”It’s a protest song!”
Politics and Music
The Trumpets of Jericho
Beethoven and Napoleon
Wagner and the Nazis
"Ohio" and the Vietnam War
"Imagine" and consumerism
The Dixie Chicks
Countless examples illustrate the intersection of Music and Politics. Jerry Garcia referenced his group as "just a dance band." Always pondered how we react to our choices of music. Divorce it entirely from the controversies of the day and merely enjoy the artistry or allow it to change the way in which we view the world. Transformative, escapism, nostalgia, intellectual profundity, cultural discovery. Large questions. Your thoughts?
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As someone who is an artist himself, and whose work involved political commentary and often found himself in court over speech and other constitutional issues (see https://www.oyez.org/cases/1994/93-1525), I find this discussion to be impossibly binary. |
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