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Wednesday: Christy Moore Live — The authentic voice of contemporary Ireland. On his 21 albums, Christy's ... featuring the renowned MIT professor of linguistics, and political activist, Noam Chomsky. In Middle East: ...
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Jimmy to the rescue
latest albums from the French Musidisc label to be released in this country by Festival Records is ... and liberation. The album is typically light and melodic, perhaps a little too much so for dedicated ... roots reggae-heads. The album opens with "Turning Point", a typically Cliff-esque, ...
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Hip-Hop: life and death in Amerikkka
into film and politics as well. The Hip-Hop nation has freed itself from the shackles of post-Ronald ... political power. The Nation of Islam, rappers like Ice Cube, Public Enemy, the Poor Righteous Teachers, and ... independent labels. Hip-Hop is a development of that early scene, and differs vastly in its style, politics ...
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Lucky Dube: reggae with a message
Areas Act" from Lucky's latest album, House of Exile, spoke optimistically of unity between ... Left Weekly' s Norm Dixon about music and politics. Lucky was remarkably coy about being compared ... honour." Asked about politics, Lucky was similarly modest: "I don't know much about politics. All ...
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a range of South Africans living in Australia. Why did they come, how many of them are of the political ... Angeles. This program examines the musical, social and political aspects of jazz. ABC Radio National, ... Thursday, April 28, 11.05am. Back Catalogue — 1978: The Year in Music — The hard-to-find album releases of ...
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Ice-T, Public Enemy on tour
By Zanny Begg SYDNEY — Ice-T and Public Enemy are both known for their uncompromising political ... "nigger" music. Approximately 60% of Ice-T's albums sell to white young people, which illustrates the ... Ice-T's politics were revealed when Â鶹´«Ã½ of the audience began chanting "faggot" at a young ...
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Jimmy Cliff fills some big shoes
Ronstadt. Every Jimmy Cliff album has its share of philosophy, politics and smoochy love songs. Breakout is ... doubt the best loved, most sincere and most political Jamaican reggae artist around. Being the best ... and Peter Tosh, Cliff has big shoes to fill with every album. With Breakout, he wears those shoes with ...
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Luka Bloom
built his reputation on two acclaimed albums, Riverside and Acoustic Motorbike and his appearance in the ... While his songs mainly reflect personal experiences and are not overtly political, he is not shy to ...
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'Bury down apartheid!'
enough to make you wilt. On top of that, his politically charged blend of the reggae beat, mbaqanga soul ... the world." This message permeates his shows and his excellent new album, his first to be ... released in this country, Prisoner. The album showcases Dube's soul/reggae and thoughtful lyrics. The ...
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LA explained in music
Norm Dixon Rarely does a day go by lately that this album doesn't end up blasting out from my ... stereo. Musically, lyrically and politically, it is one of the most infectious records I've had the ... culture and politics of the Klan thrive and untold damage is done to people's lives. Buckwheat ...
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Insight or insanity?
is sometimes compelling and the music has been skilfully woven into the 15 stories, but the album ... politics. Burroughs challenged the dominant ideas of the time. He was not shy about launching attacks on ... anything from accepted literature styles to the politics of Nixon and the existence of the CIA. He was ...
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The lament of the exile
Oryema's beautifully crafted album. Lazy or ignorant record company publicists and even lazier music ... challenges the listener. Beat the Border, Oryema's follow-up to his debut album Exile, is a mellow blend ... (WOMAD) festivals throughout Europe. His first album, Exile, appeared on Peter Gabriel's ...
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She will not lose
She will not lose More Ways Than One By Arramaieda An album of voice and percussion Natural ... "political" in the narrow sense. Most overtly political are the anthemic "Ella's Song" (We who ...
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Old and new, both good
by Melanie Sjoberg Judy Small's latest album, produced as she turns 40, reflects a shift in ... introduction of a strong jazz influence enhances the appeal of several of the tracks. The politics include ... years of recording. Her best political and social comment includes the antiwar "Mother, Daughters, ...
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Still our Bill?
Worker's Playtime (1988), to The Internationale, the tribute to his political and folk-music roots. The new ... album is a further step towards production values and pop sensibility, epitomised in the Johnny ... themes of politics, love, relationships and football. Live, at Sydney's State Theatre on May 15, the ...
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Singing the history of working people
RORY McLEOD is currently on his fourth visit to Australia, promoting his new album, Travelling ... a political way. They're going more towards the right. They're not as bad or as right wing as the ... production of your latest album Travelling Home? I produced it myself. It's a kind of vision I've ...
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program reports on the major obstacle to democracy in the country — political violence. Woods asks how ... around and just how many albums has it released? Tune in and find out. Presented by Jo-Anne Killen. ...
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Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
dreamed of escaping by becoming rock gods like Iommi, Butler, Ward and Osbourne. As this tribute album ... function — after a hard day's exploitation at work or political activity on the streets, there's ...
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Kev Carmody launches new single
singer/songwriters, launched the new single from his excellent Eulogy (For a Black Person) album at Sydney's ... Surfers Paradise working in the sex industry. As always, politics was at the fore in Carmody's Sydney ...
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Enriching a sense of justice
released an EP and an album, people think you've got fur-lined underwear. But it's a myth. ... Bennett adds. Their debut album, Sing About Life, was released late last month. It is more culinary than ... self-indulgence. Central to it are the political themes, essentially a working-class outlook that is also ...