Comments on: The Social Significance of David Rovics http://pulsemedia.org/2009/07/22/the-social-significance-of-david-rovics/ "Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one." Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:57:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Robert Palmer http://pulsemedia.org/2009/07/22/the-social-significance-of-david-rovics/#comment-4641 Fri, 24 Jul 2009 04:51:20 +0000 http://pulsemedia.org/?p=14104#comment-4641 Reading this article about David Rovics was a pleasure. As I read it I could feel myself becoming his friend as I understood so much of what he stands for and I felt him expressing what I feel.

]]> By: Coleen Rowley http://pulsemedia.org/2009/07/22/the-social-significance-of-david-rovics/#comment-4639 Fri, 24 Jul 2009 01:14:03 +0000 http://pulsemedia.org/?p=14104#comment-4639 David Rovics and Anne Feeney are scheduled to come and do a concert together in St. Paul on October 11th as part of their “Midwest Tour” this fall.

]]> By: FromSouth http://pulsemedia.org/2009/07/22/the-social-significance-of-david-rovics/#comment-4632 Thu, 23 Jul 2009 07:35:18 +0000 http://pulsemedia.org/?p=14104#comment-4632 “Whenever they make a decision to play in a certain country, they are making a political statement.” I’m not sure I agree with this position. Art itself can be political but that’s an option made by the artist while creating or its appreciators while contemplating. Of course if at the core of the artists’ work are political statements, it might be very hypocritical to express his or hers art under certain circumstances.

Furthermore music is on category of its own or as Oliver Sacks would put it “Music is the most direct and mysterious way of conveying and evoking feeling”. From this perspective even singing Happy Birthday can be made out to be a political statement, which wouldn’t necessarily make of the authors the champions of any particular cause. As I see it, the very act of artistic expression doesn’t necessarily have to be a political statement.

I don’t want say with that the polically engaged artistis don’t rock. I love music. And I love it even more when it brings me closer to my fellow singing moneys.

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