Resist: A New Era of Protest Music
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Where have all the protest songs gone? They've never gone away, and have been arriving like news bulletins in recent months. Sound Opinions' cohosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot return to AHML to meet this moment. Join them to dig into the world of protest songs, including new street anthems, from Bruce Springsteen's "Streets of Minneapolis" to Billy Bragg's "City of Heroes" and more.
Jim DeRogatis is a professor of practice teaching arts criticism and journalism at Medill and the author of several books about music, including Soulless: The Case Against R. Kelly. He spent 15 years as the pop music critic at the Chicago Sun-Times, and 15 years as a professor in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago. He has played in punk-rock bands since age thirteen but jokes that he is a drummer, not a musician.
Greg Kot served as The Chicago Tribune music critic for 30 years. This year he'll be teaching a course on democracy and American music at the University of Chicago's Graham School. He's also developing a play based on his award-winning biography of Mavis Staples, I'll Take You There. His seven books include the Wilco biography Learning How to Die and Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music**.**
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