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Thread #24866 Message #288719
Posted By: Bert
31-Aug-00 - 04:11 PM
Thread Name: Times They Are A Changin'? - propaganda in art?
Subject: RE: The Times They Are A Changin'?
A lot of folk music, especially the sixties pseudofolk, is propaganda.
An example that I particularly liked was Lionel Bart's musical 'Maggie May'. Very strong propaganda which showed working class disapproval of aparthied. Don't forget that working class people in England were boycotting South Africa way back in the Fifties.
Bert.