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1. 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 ...

2. 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 ...

3. 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 ...

4. Anti-drunk laws noticeably hypocritical

   the political economy of Lily Allen's new album were noticeably increasing in volume and ...

5. 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 ...

6. 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 ...

7. 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 ...

8. 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 ...

9. 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, ...

10. '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 ...

11. 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 ...

12. 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 ...

13. 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 ...

14. 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 ...

15. 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 ...

16. 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 ...

17. 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 ...

18. 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 ...

19. 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 ...

20. The impact of carbon trading in the Third World

    sponsored to offset the emissions from the recording of their second album had died. The villagers who were ... community organising, collective political action, mass mobilising and so forth. All progressive political ... onus for climate action on individuals acting in isolation from others and thus inhibit their political ...

21. Provocalz, a provocative vocalist

    Land", the track that rips open the rapper's ripper of an album, Verbal Reality Volume One. Rightly ... the next few weeks, he is donating all sales of the album to the daughter of another Aboriginal ... with the ARIA-award winning 360 because he closed his latest album with a climate song, his publicist ...

22. Brand was right, we need a revolution

    politics. Pain and anger There is very real economic pain felt by ordinary people across Britain (and the ... world), and deep-seated disillusionment and anger towards a corrupt political system that allows rich ... political class " and pointing to “a disenfranchised, disillusioned, despondent underclass that are not ...

23. Ben Iota takes the rap road less travelled

    their own cause, sell units and push their own political agendas (see the “boat people”, Islamophobic ... “progressive” category, although most of them would not self-identify as political. I guess the things that ... spirituality, academic inquiry, political engagement, travelling around the place being the nomad, or working ...

24. 'And that means you' — Joe Solo, English musician and socialist

    with Radio Happy. An album, Never Be Defeated, was released in October last year and is an excellent ... more than ever, but it is needed in the true sense and not the well-thumbed pages of dry political ... self-interest – then you are a socialist in attitude without relying on scripture. We need to put the politics ...

25. The paradox of the Chili Peppers

    was a radical act. The Chili Peppers might not have been the most political of this scene in their ... and rightly regarded as the album that cemented their status among rock’s best, included such tracks ... knowing how his political ideas may have been shaped. Far more likely is the way in which the political ...

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