Gordon Lightfoot in 1968

[Saviolo]

He sang about the 1967 Detroit Race Riots:

Who will sing about Ferguson in 2014?

[Stonepounder]

1. But where are the voices today?

The Gordon Lightfoot, Joan Baez, Buffalo Springfield, Pete Seeger, Buffy St Marie? Today we have Hip-Hop and Gangsta Rap. Where are the troubadours and minstrels that sing the songs that can move a nation.

We Shall Overcome
Keep Your Eyes On The Prize
Universal Soldier
For What Its Worth
Big Muddy

Where are the songs for today?

[IkeRepublican]

2. Got this on 45

Orange and black UA.

[unterrified democrat]

3. They're out there, but radio is dead.

Look for Steve Earl, who maintained my sanity through the Bush years with his album "The Revolution Starts Now!". There's Eliza Gylkinson (check out "Man of God" - a blistering indictment of W Bush),Tom Morello (who sang "This Land is Your Land" at the NY Occupy scene), David Rovics - ( who has a song about EVERY worthy cause). Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen are still performers with a conscience. Ry Cooder recently did "No bankers left behind" about the Wall Street bailouts...It's not so much the artists missing as the audience is asleep!

[drynberg]

4. Yes, well done.

Perhaps as we speak, songs about senseless a racist murder are being written and performed. The present ain't a replay of the past, y'know.

[loudsue]

5. The audience isn't asleep....the Powell Manifesto put all the media in the hands of 6 corporations

that are decidedly right wing. There is no free press except on the internet....and even DU won't allow some truths to be discussed. That, and the liars are given equal time, as if what they have to say makes things "balanced".

[Enthusiast]

6. Perfectly well said!

[shebornik]

7. underscore

DU won't allow some truths to be discussed.

[Crowman1979]

8. Like all good music nowadays, you have to go look for it.

[Saviolo]

9. Not to mention

Crosby Stills Nash and Young singing about Kent State in 1970: