January 9, 2022 | When The Protest Songs Go Your Way, You’ve won
The job of an artist is to lead the rest of us to new ways of perceiving reality. So when the preponderance of art comes down on one side of a debate, the battle is pretty much over. All that remains is mopping up.
Mark Crispin Miller (NYU professor nearly canceled for teaching both sides of mask mandates in a class on propaganda) just posted a “Top 100” list of 2021 protest songs, which leads with these two:
After his list was published (a few hours ago) Miller was deluged with other songs in the same vein, so he published a second list, which opens with these:
When country and rap both conclude that we’re headed in the wrong direction, can massive change be far away?
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John Rubino January 9th, 2022
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