Arts & Culture

CBC News: 
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/film/story/2010/06/21/f-sounds-like-a-revolution-...
The documentary Sounds Like a Revolution explores modern-day protest music.

It's hard to believe in this era of Biebers and Ushers and Jonases that the pop charts used to pack a po

I love this stuff  (spam deleted)

With this whole Chantal Kreviazuk thing, what do fellow babblers think about the role of artists to speak out against injustice?

I think an artist should have integrity.  You're not a bank, you're not an oil company, your not--or shouldn't be--simply a profit making machine.  It's only in the last 60 years that music became this vapid, commercialized bore filled with the same cliches recycled again and again over the years.  For most of human history music has been the heart and soul and voice of the community.

when you'd get thrown in jail for SAYING it, you sang it instead.  

http://www.realityisfree.com/music_video_links.htm

In one of the included music events Andrew Lloyd Weber plays the piano for the

 lovely soprano who entertains British forces in Afghanistan.  One of the posted

 comments lavishes praise on the singer, but refers to the "old geezer" at the piano.