Good websites noted. Worldlink has some great stuff. I've seen specials on Ravi Shankar, Brazilian features, etc. Anyone with Directv, check it out. The protests in SF and Chicago and elsewhere were covered pretty well this time. I had to laugh, though, when the SF channel went to a 'prowar demonstration' in Pleasanton (like it sounds, suburbia). It was, like 9 people waving flags. As to this generation, and protest songs, dude, change the channel! Get over there to the left of the dial where the public radio stations are, and you will find all kinds of excellent protest songs by the likes of Ani Difranco, Spearhead, and hundreds of indies like Jim Page that you've never heard of. Ani's 9-11 song is especially moving (Is it called "We hold these truths"?). I would be willing to bet there is more antiwar music now then there was during Vietnam. Yes, the sixties generation put out some fine music along these lines. The difference? There was no Clear Channel or MTV sanitizing the airwaves in the interest of the music busine$$. If you have trouble finding relevant local programming, you can listen to http://www.kmud.org online. They air Democracy Now daily at 11:30 (now 2 hours) and have highly politicized music and talk at various times throughout the week. Thurs @ 1:30pm and Tues @ 8pm are good bets for activist music programming. Or try Fri @ 9pm for a stimulating call-in talk show, or Thurs @ 9am for The Nation magazine. Also the Reggae show on Saturday night where you will find a large percentage of social commentary. RR ps War was by Edwin Starr (one hit wonder...I wonder...did they blacklist him after that or was that all he had in him?..). Eric Burden collaborated with the band War.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > March 22 was a good day for Joni fans at Symphony Space and while you who > could get in or listened on weak signal WFUV or via internet etc.,a lot more > fans were marching to protest the Iraq invasion on Broadway to Washington > Square Park.The protest was televised by WorldLinkTv on Ch.375 of Directv > Satelite and on other systems.Check out FreeSpeech.org and DemocracyNow.org > for details and independent views. But,those of you older fans who go back to > Joni's early work including Songs to Ageing Children (Alice's Restaurant > film),Fiddle and the Drum etc. should take some comfort that the music we > grew up with still has social relevance. Our children and grandchildren are > not creating as powerful songs as we did. Why do you think that is? Are we > losing our best qualities to harmonize as each generation did from Yankee > Doodle to Irving Berlin's Oh,How I hate to get up in the Morning to Eric > Burden's War,What is it good for,absolutely nothing,and Bob Dylan's Blowing > in the Wind? I don't want to bum you all out but as much fun it is to navel > gaze about Joni songs,Joni romances and the Joni special on PBS April 2,the > confluence of War and Music of either Patriotism or Protest is missing > now.Sting seems to be one of the few artists who have blended world music > themes and social concern.(Paul Simon,too) later,mark
