Documentary, 2007, 93 minutes, Concert Productions International, Directed by Jim Brown Pete Seeger has been making music for 80 years. It should be impossible to do that justice in 90 minutes, but “Pete Seeger: The Power of Song” does it. This tightly packed, but graceful, documentary tells the story ...
“It's like radio used to be during World War II, when the airwaves were used to get messages out to families and friends … to get important information out to the community.”Renessa Lopez may sound more like Franklin Roosevelt than Blackbeard, but technically she is a pirate. As DJ icecreamlopez for ...
In some circles it might be sporting to bash an online branch of the Rupert Murdoch empire. Musicians, however, don't bash MySpace. They've turned it to their own ends. It is the single greatest tool for musicians since the advent of PC-based recording. Everybody from aspiring hopefuls to superstars ...
See expanded guidelines to start your own Conversation Café.I didn't ask anyone if I could start Conversation Cafés. There was no one to ask. No one is in charge of conversations in cafés or at bus stops or in grocery lines. The potential for rich, fun, meaningful, enlivening conversations in such locations ...
Invented in Olympia, WA, in 2000, ladyfest was meant to be a festival but in a very short time grew to be a movement. All over the world, in Jakarta, Warsaw, Houston, Leipzig, Timisoara and Newcastle upon Tyne, ladiezzz are celebrating, holding workshops and making music around the vague issue of being ...
See the Burning Man festival through the eyes of Catherine Bailey in our photo essay.It begins as a pilgrimage of light inching its way across the Nevada desert. Thousands of cars, vans, RVs, painted buses and mutant art vehicles carrying inside them the minions of “The Man.” They are some 50,000 strong: ...
On the fourth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, San Francisco Bay area activists locked themselves to barrels in front of the world headquarters of Chevron. They were there to draw attention to the link between climate change and war, and specifically to the oil law before Iraq's parliament that would ...
When I play the Bach suites for cello on city streets, I am acutely aware of both my freedom and yours. Music-making becomes my meditation. My spontaneous response to the music flows freely, and I offer that experience to you, the listener. You have the freedom to respond any way you like. We have no ...
The modernist masterpieces of Sergei Shchukin and Ivan Morozov were nationalized by the Bolsheviks and are now on view in a celebrated and controversial exhibition at London’s Royal Academy. The heirs’ efforts to compel the Russian state to provide them with “reasonable compensation” ...
HOMEGROWN: Engaged Cultural Criticismby bell hooks & Amalia Mesa-BainSSouth End Press Collective, 2006, 145 pages, $15.00reviewed by Patrisia GonzaleSIn my great-great grandmothers' era, black Muscogee Indians found refuge in our ancestral Kickapoo lands in Mexico. In my great grandparents' time, Indians ...
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