Monday, February 9 2009
Working in the Coal Mine and Singing About It, Too
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?
Tuesday, February 20 2007
Dixie-chicked
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.
Thursday, August 24 2006
Harlan County U.S.A. (1976)
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.
