The song āStrange Fruitā lives on as legendary poetry and music that makes perhaps the strongest argument against race hatred of any artwork. Though it will forever be associated with Billie Holiday, the pieceās relevance calls for it to be renewed and relived, over the course of generations and, likewise, struggles.
For as long as there has been dissent, there has been the protest song. In the people’s history, the fight for social…
Her high, lonesome sound that touched so many could only have been born from strife and fight-back. Singer/guitarist Hazel Dickens's sound…
Somehow the reports were too slow to come in: a quick note on the Internet, a bare posting on a folksong blog,…
Directed by Ken Bowser Documentarian Ken Bowser walked up the aisle to the front of the IFC Center in Greenwich Village…
Silber with Barbara Dane Irwin Silber is recalled today as a primary creator of the urban folk song revival, which…
with Ivan Dixon in Nothing But a Man with Max Roach Vocalist, actress, and activist Abbey Lincoln captured the energy…
Book by Paul Buhle and Sabrina Jones, Afterword by Harvey Pekar; Danbury, Connecticut, For Beginners LLC, 2010, 160 pp. Paul Buhle, after…
Utah Phillips was born Bruce Duncan Phillips in Cleveland, Ohio in 1935. He decided early on that he would dedicate his time…
By Howard Zinn, Mike Konopacki, and Paul Buhle (with additional scripting by Dave Wagner); Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Co; 2008; 288 pp.…
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