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A few things I ran across earlier on Google:

Damon Albarn makes the case for protest music in the Times of London.

Louise Kennedy writes in the Boston Globe about why musicians aren't writing anti-war songs. Among other things, she points out that the anti-war songs of the 60s didn't come along until, well, the war was underway.

Jeff Chang writes in Metro (last April) about protest music, media conglomeration, and self-censorship. Lots of good perspectives in this piece. Both Kennedy and Chang look to hip-hop as a probable source of protest music for the new millennium.

Brent Staples writes about protest music, but mostly about the consolidation of radio ownership in the New York Times, following a related article by William Safire.

Barry Stoller asks "Where are the new anti-war songs?"--not just "little indie groups" but "supernova chart power". But his ideas for chart-topping artists are Dylan, Baez, McCartney, Ono, Ozzy Osbourne, Neil Young, and Johnny Rotten. I think he's making some kind of point, but it just makes him look out of touch.

Re: hiphop

Date: 2003-03-13 01:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jfb.livejournal.com
According to one non-exhaustive survey (http://www.slipcue.com/music/jazz/warsongs_01.html): "The patriotic war song pretty much died a lonely death during the Vietnam War with Sgt. Barry Sadler's 'Ballad Of The Green Berets' and Tony Orlando & Dawn's 'Tie A Yellow Ribbon' proving the last gasp of this once-great genre." Plenty of WWII songs though.

Also, I wouldn't want to take this class (http://www.arts.adelaide.edu.au/personal/DHart/ResponsesToWar/Lecture/20thCOther/VietnamUSA.html), whose syllabus lists "Born in the USA" under "Partriotic [sic] Rock And Pro-War Country And Western".

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