Articles tagged "barbara kopple"

Column: Torch & Twang

Working in the Coal Mine and Singing About It, Too

by Juli Thanki

[9.Feb.09] :. The majority of us aren't coal miners, we don't know coal miners, and we wouldn't last a week in a coal mine. Are coal mining songs, then, still relevant?

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Dixie-chicked

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Feb.07] :. Introducing the Chicks' Grammys performance, Joan Baez called them "three brave women who are still 'not ready to make nice.'" It may be the long way, but it's the right way too.

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Shut Up & Sing (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Nov.06] :. Still, and to their credit, the Chicks will not shut up.

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Harlan County U.S.A. (1976)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Aug.06] :. The point made repeatedly, in the documentary concerns "solidarity," in the United Mine Workers and socialist senses, as well as the union of community interest and art in the filmmaking project.

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