I still have chills and a lump in my throat after listening to these songs. Sometimes, when I hear the rhetoric about states rights, I do think much of the south should find another country….
Why are there no folksingers writing protest songs? Do they not see? Or not care? Or are they afraid of the revenge tour?
I still have chills and a lump in my throat after listening to these songs. Sometimes, when I hear the rhetoric about states rights, I do think much of the south should find another country….
Why are there no folksingers writing protest songs? Do they not see? Or not care? Or are they afraid of the revenge tour?
My guess on lyrics like these are not in vogue: as turbulent as the 1960s were, there was an optimism, notwithstanding excessive self-involvement, that a generation could change a culture and its world. We live with a culture *not only of Christopher Lasch's narcissism, but also *of the profound pessimism of the 'anomie' of apparent dissolution.
I still have chills and a lump in my throat after listening to these songs. Sometimes, when I hear the rhetoric about states rights, I do think much of the south should find another country….
Why are there no folksingers writing protest songs? Do they not see? Or not care? Or are they afraid of the revenge tour?
Folk singers are not in vogue now.
Why not? Honestly, I meant we need protest folk songs now as much as we did during the Vietnam war and Civil Rights era.
I think the protest "songs" being written are done in Rap & Hip Hop! Not my thing - but I guess currently those are the protests!
Great insight, Maggie. I wonder what those lyrics are.
My guess on lyrics like these are not in vogue: as turbulent as the 1960s were, there was an optimism, notwithstanding excessive self-involvement, that a generation could change a culture and its world. We live with a culture *not only of Christopher Lasch's narcissism, but also *of the profound pessimism of the 'anomie' of apparent dissolution.