‘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
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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
The cultural struggle takes many forms, says Phil Brett, and shows us the aesthetically beautiful and politically challenging art to be found on the sleeves of albums... Continue reading
Paul Robeson died 40 years ago this month. Gerald Horne writes about the great singer, actor and communist, victimised by McCarthyism and the US apartheid system…….and what ‘the... Continue reading
‘The world that I knew, it has vanished and gone,’ sang Eliza Carthy during Blood and Roses: The Songs of Ewan MacColl, a special concert at the... Continue reading
50 years after Dylan went electric, controversy still rages about Bob Dylan’s politics. Steve Johnson reviews the debates. On 25th July 1965 Bob Dylan went on stage... Continue reading
How did the last tour go, did you enjoy it? You had to put on extra dates, what were the audiences like? Do you think you’re tapping... Continue reading
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