“Facing a dying nation of moving paper fantasy, Listening for the new told lies, with supreme visions of lonely tunes…”
Artists in America – musicians, writers, painters, theater makers – have a long history of using their medium as a tool for political resistance. Protest music, in particular, is a tradition as old, if not older, than our nation’s founding; spirituals and battle hymns, folks songs and
jazz standards, rap, hip-hop, and rock & roll all have laid claim to this powerful and communal art form. The theater has likewise been a home for social and political commentary since the construction of the earliest American stages. In 1967, following what is now referred to as the “golden age” of musical theater (the canon
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