music
Hear the rediscovered documentary movie music of American composer Alan Shulman
August 31, 2023“The middlebrow ideal was to be sophisticated without being pretentious, worldly but not effete, and classical music with an American accent fit the bill.”
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‘Rich Men North of Richmond’ are a problem; so are those south, east, and west
August 28, 2023“Rich Men North of Richmond” expresses class resentment with words and music evocative of Woody Guthrie. But Guthrie aimed his fire at economic elites that oppressed hardworking Americans; Oliver Anthony has people looking in the other...
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Arise, Africa! Roar, China!: Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century
August 24, 2023Historian Gao Yunxiang documents the experiences of five individuals—W.E.B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, Liu Liangmo, Si-lan Chen Leyda, and Langston Hughes—through the lens of anti-imperialist working-class struggles for freedom.
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The birth and long life of ‘Peat Bog Soldiers’ on its 90th anniversary
August 17, 2023Few of the hundreds of songs in the antifascist repertoire became as popular as the “Song of the Peat Bog Soldiers,” written 90 years ago.
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Celebrating the 50th anniversary of hip-hop with 5 conscious-raising albums
August 15, 2023History was made on Aug. 11, 1973, when Clive Campbell took to the stage at his sister’s back-to-school party in the Bronx.
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