Music Notes

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Music Notes

Music Notes: Timeless songs with urgent topicality

PV January 22, 2020

David Rovics, the topical songwriter from Portland, Oregon, has just released Strangers and Friends, a new album that may well be his best ever. Rovics has been mentioned a lot in this column over...

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Music Notes: Nueva Cancion still nurturing the progressive struggle

PV December 23, 2019

Allende era’s music inspires Chileans The struggle that culminated in the election of Salvador Allende’s socialist Popular Unity government in Chile in 1970 was nurtured by a profound musical revolution. While Latin America’s Nueva...

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Music Notes

Music Notes: Waters to Assange, “Wish You Were Here”

PV October 31, 2019

More than a thousand Julian Assange supporters cheered as Australian journalist and filmmaker John Pilger introduced Roger Waters at a September 2 demonstration outside the British Home Office. The rally called for an end...

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Music Notes: This land is whose land?

PV September 29, 2019

Folksinger Woody Guthrie (1912-1967) is widely acclaimed as the great bard of the American working class. More than fifty years after his death, his songs are still performed around the world. Guthrie grew up...