Sing a Song of Protest

27/01/2021 30 min Temporada 6 Episodio 3

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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. For more information, check out: https://folkways.si.edu/paredon