Music
“Israel in Egypt”: A Handel oratorio propagandizes for colonialism and war
February 15, 2018The context for this problematic work, subject to pointed discussion on musical, historical, political, theological and territorial grounds, has to be more transparent. Vague references to the generalized global exile and refugee experience simply looks like...
Read moreMachinists spearhead ‘new wave’ of union music for working people
February 8, 2018"The hard part is getting people to listen (to the labor songs on the CDs) to the message. But music is a great communicator.”
Read more“Django”: A world-renowned jazz musician in wartime
January 26, 2018This new feature captures a few months in the life of world-famous Belgian-French Gypsy jazz guitarist and composer Django Reinhardt.
Read moreHugh Masekela and the struggle against apartheid in South Africa
January 25, 2018"My biggest obsession is to show Africans and the world who the people of Africa really are." - Hugh Masekela
Read moreSidney Finkelstein: an appreciation of the great Marxist cultural critic
January 19, 2018The Marxist cultural critic Sidney Finkelstein lived in a suitcase in my mother’s closet.
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