Like all artists, musicians enhance the quality of our lives, and expand the cultural commons which we need as much as the air we breathe. Chris Wood... Continue reading
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Via email interview, Robb Johnson introduces his new album and talks about politics, protest music, and plum pudding. Q. Can you tell us something about your new... Continue reading
Mark Abel continues his analysis of how Marxists should appreciate and evaluate music. In the first part of this article, I argued that critique was at the... Continue reading
In the second part of his series, Mark Abel asks how Marxists should judge music. In the first part of this series of articles, I argued that... Continue reading
Phil Brett riffs on the political meanings of some great post-punk pop groups. Forty years ago punk exploded into the national conscience, with bands like The Clash,... Continue reading
In the first of a series of articles, Mark Abel discusses music and Marxism. We hope they will stimulate further contributions on this topic. Part 1: Explanation or... Continue reading
‘Cold Old Fire’ by Lynched, a Dublin-based folk group, was written after the financial crisis in Ireland that would end up sending 80,000 people a year overseas.... Continue reading
Music can have political meanings without being directly about political issues, says Nick Grant, reviewing the ‘deeply humanist vision’ of Snarky Puppy’s latest album, Family Dinner: Volume Two.... Continue reading
Haydn Greenway analyses the hidden meanings of Berlioz’s great opera,’The Trojans’. Classical music can arouse extreme emotional responses. It also requires an intellectual engagement in order to... Continue reading
Jeremy Dibble marks International Womens Day, and the centenary of Hubert Parry’s setting of ‘Jerusalem’, with a discussion of the famous choral song and its links to... Continue reading
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