
David Byrne
Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
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The Importance of Protest Songs
The White Southern protest song is very often that kind of song. It's a song that personalizes structural injustice. And I consider those kind of personal protest songs to be illegitimate protest songs. Black Flag had a song called TV Party, which was a sarcastic song about people who just sit around and watch TV all day instead of going out and changing the world like Black Flag were doing.
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