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  1. What Phil Ochs heard

    nationalistic, it reveals the parameters of Ochs' politics 鈥 liberal US patriotism. Although it says that ... door", the song's appeal crosses the political spectrum. It was recorded by the US Army ... rights marches. He recorded another album called I Ain't Marching Anymore. The title track became ...

  2. An open letter to Elton John

    racism. These artists aren鈥檛 playing politics, but rightfully refuse to let their music be the soundtrack ... Elton, was moved to delete you from my iPod a few days ago. I also took every album I own by you to the ...

  3. Sex, drugs, rock鈥檔鈥檙oll 鈥 and women

    interesting project. The atmosphere of a politically lacklustre period coupled with an economic recession ... rock, Jett is famous for having her album I Love Rock 鈥檔鈥 Roll turned down by 23 major labels before she ...

  4. Western Sydney underground music breaks through

    track of their self-titled album, they lay it on thick. No mucking around with an acoustic guitar to ... life for us all". Unfortunately, the music comes across as a polite version of Black Sabbath, ...

  5. The spectre of Frantz Fanon

    rappers Prophets of Da City's latest album, printed over a shadowy picture of Steven Biko. ... tension of a lifetime of violent oppression. The second chapter deals with political spontaneity. Fanon ... argues that African political parties have tended to model themselves on European structures, have a bias ...

  6. Deadly rapper gets his big break

    one of the fastest rising stars in Aboriginal music. Yung Nooky doesn鈥檛 even have an album out yet, ... set to be released on Taboo鈥檚 solo album. making_of_two_worlds_-_taboos_story Video:聽Making of ... Webster鈥檚 highbrow hip hop on his debut EP, Resistance. The politically punchy short-player was produced by ...

  7. Lowkey: British-based rapper speaks out for change

    Lowkey is renowned for his overtly political songs, denouncing imperialism and corporate domination. In ... itself a political act. They should say: I鈥檓 not going to perform in Tel Aviv, I鈥檒l perform in Ramallah. ... stage in history I had to be political and, in some way, engage with what was going on. I say in a song, ...

  8. Punks For West Papua: Indonesia's West Papua crimes laid bare in award-winning doco

    a couple of people, maybe do something cool, it could be a good promo for your next album or something.鈥 It ... had a musical upbringing. I played in punk bands through the 80s and 90s. Obviously politics was an ... interest of mine, so to be able to combine music and politics in one doco was pretty special.鈥 Punks For ...

  9. Willie McBride vs the fortunate sons 鈥 anti-war song controversies prove popular culture matters

    a self-deprecating reference to the anti-war songs on his 2004 album Real Gone 鈥 inspired by the Bush ... screens. Instead, over three verses, the song caustically describes and denounces the political, business ...

  10. Red Eye Balaz cut through the battle-rap crap

    beating up "bitches", "sluts" and "wanna-be rape victims". His latest album ... Nothing. Bullshit." Sometimes, literally bullshit. The best line on the critically-acclaimed new album ... there is to it." Bob Marley, who famously tried to unite Jamaica's warring political factions ...

  11. Revolutionary rappers aim to work like Chavez

    and political prisoners speak to standing room only audiences about Black Brown unity. This space was ... NDAA [the National Defence Authorisation Act] and other violent forms of political repression in the ... international solidarity, calling him "perhaps the most important political leader of our generation". ...

  12. Write On: Letter to 91自拍论坛 Weekly

    were not only willing to discuss politics but considered it integral to teaching their subjects. One of ... I do not have a particular sympathy to their political views, on the contrary I loath their views but ... political parties and the media do not seem to be disturbed by lack of evidence (a la weapons of mass ...

  13. Rapper Sesk is 鈥楤lacktown鈥檚 best-kept secret鈥

    As in, if they鈥檙e gonna egg you on, just be polite with them. "The young blokes that are up and ... a new mixtape in the works, is working on an album, and has released a flurry of tracks in the past few ...

  14. Revolution and rumba: Cuba in the 'special period'

    old dusty album and handed it to me. As I turned the pages, I saw something more than ornaments; I saw ... an art that was an expression of a black man's political voice. There were sculptures in heavy ...

  15. Rapper Briggs takes his homeland to the nation

    a national tour promoting his latest album, Sheplife, a homage to his hometown that rolls like the grittiest ... a lifelong anger that transformed him into political colossus Malcolm X. When Adam Briggs was told by his ... with his confronting political message. For non-Aboriginal Australians, to deal with the reality of ...

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