It took me awhile to learn to appreciate hip hop because I'm such a white girl. But now, when I listen to Asian Dub Foundation or Dead Prez, the music strikes me as having similar aesthetic sensibilities to Woody Guthrie et al. (People don't quite get how angry Guthrie was.) It resonates on an emotional and artistic level as well as a political level, which is exactly what seemed to be missing last night.
Most of my favourite protest songs seem to have been written around the turn of the century. I'm still not sure why the bands at McVeigh's will play "Willy McBride" or "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye" (without the need to say something silly like, "Wow, things haven't changed much, have they?" -- people are intelligent enough to figure it out), and leftie folksingers haven't clued in yet.
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Date: 2005-10-01 07:06 pm (UTC)Most of my favourite protest songs seem to have been written around the turn of the century. I'm still not sure why the bands at McVeigh's will play "Willy McBride" or "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye" (without the need to say something silly like, "Wow, things haven't changed much, have they?" -- people are intelligent enough to figure it out), and leftie folksingers haven't clued in yet.