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Sing a Song of Protest

Category: Government & Organizations
Duration: 00:30:09
Publish Date: 2021-01-26 23:00:00
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As an up-and-coming young blues singer in the 1950s, Barbara Dane faced a choice: fame and fortune, or her principles. She left the mainstream music industry and became a revolutionary music producer – literally. Spurred by Fidel Castro’s international gathering of protest singers, Dane created a record label that published the sounds of social change around the world, and inspired generations of protest music to come.

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