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| Where is the music? Music is very personal so I do not ever make recommendations. However, many people have expressed frustration, "Where is the next generation of political songwriters?" or "Why aren't there any political singers?" One must be willing to look around, listen to people unfamiliar to the ear, take some risk. Here are a few resources to help you get started. I am not going to limit the list to age or try to identify style but rather list artist who I know are, in one way or another, committed to social change. In any given recording, they might present 15 political songs or 2. For example, in my own work, if some heard that I was a political artist and bought my cd CRUSHED, they would feel mislead. That is my collection of love songs. So it is important to not make assumptions about artists. We are a wild bunch who, if we are any good at all, experiment and stretch and adventure away from any given stereotype. Yet the suggestions below are windows to what I hope will be some delightful discoveries for you. And this is just a drop in the bucket. Feel free to send in the name of your favorite social change artist. Criteria: They must have accessible recordings. We will start an international list as well. I am not going to screen the suggestions, so readers, you are on your own. I hope that people making submissions will do so with discretion. Where is the music? It is everywhere. |
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| Resources Sing Out Magazine http://www.singout.org/ RockrGrl Magazine http://www.rockrgrl.com/ People's Music Network http://www.peoplesmusic.org/ |
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I will start with  Dr. Bernice Johnson ReagonAnd in no particular order: United States (and possibly some Canadians) Pete Seeger Odetta Buffy Sainte-Marie Nobuko Sweet Honey in The Rock Ulali Toshi Reagon Ember Swift Pamela Means Copper Wimmin Ferron Joe Jencks emma's revolution (Pat Humphries/Sandy O) Wishing Chair Nedra Johnson Melanie deMoore Cris Williamson John McCutcheon Linda Tillery and The Cultural Heritage Choir Tao Rodriguez-Seeger and The Mammals Arlo Guthrie and family Liche Fuentes Rhiannon Ronnie Gilbert Cheryl Wheeler Peggy Seeger Laura Love Deidre McCalla Jennifer Berezan Betty MUSE (women's chorus in Cincinnati, Ohio) Peter Paul and Mary Steve Earle Tish Hinojosa Larry Long Alice Gerrard Bill Staines David Roth Peter Alsop Mary Watkins Rafael Manriquez Elise Witt Betsy Rose Gary Lapow Gerry Tenney Bonnie Lockhart Jon Fromer Tom Chapin Guy Davis Cosy Sharidan Bob Franke Dar Williams Utah Phillips Ani DiFranco Eliza Gilkyson Lowen and Navarro The Kennedys Keb' Mo' Kim and Reggie Harris Zoe Lewis Beverly Grant Rosalli Sorrels Sloan Wainwright Tret Fure Magpie The Klezmatics Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer Faith Petric Lil' Rev Greg Brown Tom Waits Anne Hills Hazel Dickens Indigo Girls Janis Ian Joan Baez Kate Cambell Libby Roderick Jaimie Anderson Ubaka Hill John Trudell (spoken word) Ellis Paul Vance Gilbert Christine Lavin Catie Curtis The Dance Brigade (no recordings but go see them!) Leonard Cohen Bill Steele Jackson Browne Judy Collins Lucy Kaplansky Sara Thomsen Amy Martin Tracy Grammer Garnet Rogers David Rovics Richie Havens Peter Donnelly Dangerous Folk Radio Free Earth Linq Mary Wheelan Kate Long James Durst The Work o' the Weavers Ron Romanovsky Four Bitchin' Babes Dave Lippman Lynn Frances Anderson Colleen Kattau José "Pepo" Saavedra Carrrie Newcomer Neil Young Prince Myshkins SONiA (yes spelled like that) Llajtasuyo Chestnut Brothers Kuumba Lynx Charlie King and Karen Brandow Francisco Herrera Ted Warmbrand Georges Lammam Karl Anthony Michael Franti and Spearhead Girlyman Arjuna Griest Melissa Crabtree Rachael Kilgour Green and Root Eileen Hazel Tracy Chapman Bill Miller Joanne Shenandoah Bright Eyes Faith Nolan Joe Glazer Si Kahn Fred Small Anne Feeney Mark Erelli Nanci Griffith Bonnie Raitt John Flynn
INTERNATIONAL COMIC AND SPOKEN WORD A SALUTE TO THOSE WHO HAVE MOVED OUT OF SIGHT, BUT NOT OUT OF MIND |
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