Re: Folk radio and no protest songs

[Shawn Mamros <mamros@MIT.EDU>]

>I've been listening a bit this week to the folk music programming on WERS
>and WUMB, and I am surprised that I have not heard any war protest songs in
>light of this weeks events.  The modern folk music movement has it's roots
>in the protest songs of the 60's, yet it seems to have become not much more
>than a kind of acoustic background music.  The stations and programs seem
>to have lost touch with the current events in the real world.

There's a lot more to folk music than just political songs, and if you
think about it, there really haven't been many recent wars (at least
not in the US) to inspire any *new* war protest songs.

That being said, there is still political folk music out there; one just
might have to look harder to find it, and depending on the political bent
of the show producers and/or stations in question, they may not be all
that inspired to look for it.  But if it's war protest songs you want,
I suggest tuning in to WMBR's "No Censorship Radio" this evening, between
6:30 and 8:30pm.  While I can't guarantee anything (I haven't talked to
the show's producers this week), it's probably a relatively safe bet
that, given the events of this week combined with the producers' viewpoints,
they're highly likely to play something. :-)

- -Shawn Mamros
E-mail to: mamros@mit.edu

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