Mandela: “It is Music and Dancing that Makes Me at Peace with the World”
In this tribute to the spirit of a nation rising courageously, if still painfully, from its knees, South African rocker Johnny …
Whistle Blowers Blowin’ in the Wind
How many roads must a man walk down / Before you call him a man? Yes how many times must the cannon …
Seeing without Seeing
Your name is big brother You say that you’re watching me on the tele Seeing me go nowhere Your name is big …
Raids and the Art Spirit: Welcome to the Blog
Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is not an outside, extra thing. When the artist is …
Art and the Struggle Itself [from Ch. 4]
Onstage in Carnegie Hall in 1965, Phil Ochs, the extraordinarily gifted songwriter of the Civil Rights era, described an effective protest song …
Race and the Song Circle [from Ch. 1]
In the summer of 1988 at the tender age of 23, I packed up my belongings and left my hometown of Lexington, …
