I was listening to Air America on the way home from work this afternoon. Randi Rhodes was on. She was talking about how to change the culture of a people. You can't change the culture of a people with a war. You change a culture with music. With books. With movies.
She was talking about the sixites and the anti war songs from that time. And how in the 80s and 90s there were no anti war songs. I don't know if I'd completely agree with that, I'm sure if I think hard enough there were some, but they were on the fringes, nothing mainstream. In the sixties you had acts like Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Dylan, Lennon, all in the mainstream and singing songs of opposition.
So where are the anti war songs of today? I think there are quite a few out there. They may not be quite as main stream as the sixties, but they're not quite hidden either. Steve Earle's The Revolution Starts Here is one. So what are some others? See if you can come up with an anti war song from today, from someone that is singing today. I think it might be a pretty interesting list.
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