In front of a packed house at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Joan Baez expressed the spirit of the day: "Good morning, children of the '80s," she said to the crowd gathered for the marathon charity concert Live Aid. "This is your Woodstock, and it's long overdue."
Before the protests of tuition hikes last week, a colleague posted the following: "Need suggestions for protest songs. We have a DJ but need to give her a play list." The requests started coming in: Joan Baez, the Dixie Chicks, The Clash.
Civil rights songs were the soundtrack of the movement that helped bring President Obama to the White House. On Tuesday, Obama welcomed an array of artists to celebrate those songs.
Fireworks and rock 'n' roll echoed across central Prague on Tuesday as thousands of marchers commemorated the 20th anniversary of the "Velvet Revolution" that toppled Communist rule.
CNN's Fionnuala Sweeney gets a glimpse into the shadowy underworld of the former Czech secret police.
Joan Baez is in a celebratory mood. And rightly so: She's survived 50 years in show business.
Music: it's an essential part of a director's armory, providing an aural canvas that enhances and underlines the visual effects on-screen.
Being a product of the Delaware school system, I can't help but love Quakers. My middle and junior high schools were located on a Meeting House Lane. Pacifism, abolitionism and tolerance have always seemed like good ideas to me. And I'm a total sucker for Quaker Oats packaging.
Over the years, Jac Holzman has worked with dozens of musicians. CNN asked him about three in particular.
Hey, remember the Free Speech Movement? That was the great crusade at Berkeley in 1964 -- the New Left uprising that initiated the great student revolution of the Sixties. It seems hard to credit t...
Fascinating organization, the U.S. Postal Service. Hard to fathom, though. To take just one question of unplumbable depth, how do you suppose the fellows decide which artists will get to do those '...
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