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Without a Discography, We Have Nothing: A Review of Strike While the Needle is Hot
Political movements without music may still be called movements, but they are not worth joining. No recent scholarship on music and politics has proven this more thoroughly than that of anarchist graphic designer and archivist Josh MacPhee. Over the past decade, MacPhee has produced groundbreaking, encyclopedic work on the musical activity of twentieth-century left-wing and labor organizations.
Socialist Singer Barbara Dane Was a True American Radical
–In 1966, the famed communist folk musician Pete Seeger was invited by the Cuban revolutionary government to perform a series of concert dates in Cuba. Seeger was then in the early stages of organizing an environmentalist project in Beacon, New York, a small town in the Lower Hudson Valley.
The Historical Origin of “The Singing Union”
The early history of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) has become the stuff of legend for the U.S. socialist left. In its first decade, the IWW led massive strikes of industrial workers that cut across ethnic boundaries in the east and brutal free speech fights for the rights of its organizers to publicly promote industrial unionism in the west.
GUEST ROOM | Step One in the Long March Toward Equality
1 min ago Columns By Jackson Mann | 1 min ago What is merit? Merit is natural worth. An individual’s merit is their ability to succeed in society. The notion that all people are created equal means to me that the merit of each individual is based on unobservable traits. Science supports no other conclusion. Therefore, I believe everyone should have an equal opportunity to succeed no matter what they look like. The Third Reich tried to concoct science supporting racial supremacism.
Architecture’s Role in Erasing the Guggenheim’s Ongoing Legacy of Violent Extraction
In 1971, the Guggenheim Museum abruptly cancelled Hans Haacke’s exhibition Shapolsky et al Manhattan Real Estate Holdings, A Real-Time Social System as of May 1, 1971, a series of photographs which exposed the vast, shadowy network of slum housing managed by a prominent New York real estate mogul.
A Musician for the Class Struggle
In late 1961, the German composer Hans Werner Henze was conducting the third staging of his brand new opera, Elegy for Young Lovers, in Munich, West Germany. An old friend of Henze’s was sitting in the audience. However, halfway through the first act, the friend suddenly rose and loudly forced an entire row to stand so that he might leave. This man was Luigi Nono, world-famous composer and member of the Italian Communist Party (PCI).
Insights from a Shark Tank Entrepreneur: The Road to Success
Jackson Mann is the founder of Vibes, a Minneapolis-based company that produces Vibes Hi-Fidelity Earplugs, which are earplugs designed for live music and entertainment. Unlike traditional foam earplugs that block and muffle sounds, Vibes filter acoustics to lower decibel levels without sacrificing sound quality.
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