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BARBARA DANE

Legendary protest singer/songwriter, co-editor of The Vietnam Songbook

http://www.wirz.de/music/danefrm.htm
http://www.barbaradane.net
http://www.zipcon.net/~highroad/dane.htm

IRWIN SILBER

Founding editor of seminal folk magazine- Sing Out!, co-editor of The Vietnam Songbook.

http://www.furious.com/

PAREDON RECORDS

Historic protest label founded by Barbara Dane and Irwin Silber.

http://www.folkways.si.edu/paredon.htm

TULI KUPFERBERG

Singer/Songwriter, founding member of The Fugs

http://www.furious.com/perfect/tuli.html
http://www.richieunterberger.com/kupferberg.html
http://www.thefugs.com/home.html

BEV GRANT

Social activist, feminist, labor singer/songwriter, "cultural worker" began creating social conscious music in the late sixties, first with a feminist band called Goldflower and then with her band, Human Condition, in the early seventies. The Human Condition performed regularly for the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW).

www.bevgrant.com

JOE BANGERT

Singer

Founding Member of Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA) Member of 'Hanoi Chapter of the ' Quang Tri- Thua Thien Vietnamese Veterans Association'. Inducted into the Oglala Sioux Warrior Society after serving as a member of security during the siege of Wounded Knee.

BILL HOMANS aka WATERMELON SLIM

Blues Singer/Songwriter/Guitarist/Harmonica player/Vietnam Veteran.
Founding member of the Merry Airbrakes. "Raw Psych with bluesy touch from Nam veterans, actually the first post-Vietnam record (recorded 1973)." -Forced Exposure

http://www.friedokrajones.com/

http://www.forcedexposure.com/artists/merry.airbrakes.html

MATT JONES

Singer/Songwriter

Matt Jones was a member of the Freedom Singers, and very involved with the Civil Rights Movement as a singer, activist, and composer. He participated in the Nashville Student Movement in 1960 before moving to Danville, Virginia, organizing the Danville Singing Voices in 1963. Later that same year he moved to Atlanta and, along with his brother Marshall, became associated with the Freedom Singers.

http://www.folkways.si.edu/broadside/htdocs/Jones&Laron.htm

THURSTON MOORE

Singer/Songwriter/Guitarist from Sonic Youth.

http://www.sonicyouth.com/
WWW.PROTEST-RECORDS.COM is curated by Thurston Moore and Chris Habib. The site exists for musicians, poets and artists to express LOVE + LIBERTY in the face of greed, sexism, racism, hate-crime and war.
http://WWW.PROTEST-RECORDS.COM

STEPHAN SMITH

Singer/Songwriter/Activist.

http://www.stephansmith.com

http://wbaiaction.org/studentvoices/a20.html Stephan talks about how the modern folk singer-songwriter fuels the movement with song and expelling why youth and students are so important to making social progress.

JENNI MULDAUR