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Rockin' in the Free World
Alterman, Eric | November 11, 2002 issue

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The article focuses on the relationship between art and politics. Danny Goldberg, a record executive and a progressive activist said that artists can become important megaphones and adjuncts, but their proper role is to create art and not propaganda. Jackson Browne is an artist who was abandoned by his audience when he became explicitly political in the 1980s and started writing about the murderous effects of the U.S. foreign policy in Central America and elsewhere. The ambiguity of music offers different messages to different people. A political rock star had given up the power of music to change the world and decided to change it by lobbying and pressuring people in power.

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POLITICS, Practical; ARTS; MUSIC; POLITICAL activists; PROPAGANDA; BROWNE, Jackson; GOLDBERG, Danny
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