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LiberalElite

(14,691 posts)
Sun Jan 18, 2015, 09:00 PM Jan 2015

Time.com re: protest songs

http://time.com/3672318/protest-song-returns/

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Young musicians are finding their role in this modern civil rights movement through the protest song tradition

In 1964, Bob Dylan, author of the early-1960s protest anthem “Blowin in the Wind” and one of the most celebrated political singers of his generation, explained to critic Nat Hentoff that he no longer wished to be known as a protest singer. In his words: “Me, I don’t want to write for people anymore – you know, be a spokesman. From now on, I want to write from inside me.” He insisted, “I’m not part of no movement.”
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