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Protest & Topical Song Singers--From the 60s & 70s through Today
Most folks don’t realize that your vote is about the bestthing you got in the world because it is the best thing you can use to change the world and make it better.” Woody Guthrie, in an essay to Alan Lomax, ca. November, 1940 The podcast explores some of the protest and topical songsand their writers/singers from the 1960s through to the present day. This is Part 1 of a 2-part podcast. In Part 1, Liz, Bob and I lay out the landscape of the songs and singers. Part II is a more give and take conversation. Pete Seeger famously used the phrase “Woody’s Children” todescribe the generation of…
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