Thursday, August 27, 2015

Movement music

Salamishah Tillet writes about the re-emergence of the protest song as a result of so many of the deaths, murders, arrests and other racist acts headlining so much of the news.

What's especially interesting is no mention of the folk angle. There are plenty of contributions emerging from so many artists who are simply unknown to the general public with airplay solely on folk music shows or podcasts.