music
Music to get out the vote – pass it along!
October 26, 2010Jay Z's performances on the campaign trail with Barack Obama encouraged thousands of young people to vote for the first time in 2008. Now he and others are trying to do it again.
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Communism at the opera
October 4, 2010Communism has taken over the stage at the Los Angeles Opera, and soon will be occupying opera houses in Vienna and Paris!
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Metal musicians fight for better world
September 21, 2010In recent years, musicians have begun to weigh in on important social, economic, and especially environmental issues.
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Irwin Silber, a craftsman of the folk revival, dies at 84
September 13, 2010Irwin Silber, the primary craftsman of the urban folk song revival, died Sept. 8.
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The global pop militancy of M.I.A.
August 17, 2010Some on the left may dismiss her as indulging in postmodern "identity politics" - M.I.A. herself has said that her work explores her "otherness."
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