in your face! (and ears and eyes...)
| By aschill - Jul 13th, 2005 at 2:47 pm EDT |
| Also listed in: Campus Progress Blog |
the posters that Favianna Rodriguez is showing at the Art Attack panel are so impressive- their color, vibrancy, expressiveness, and the potency of their slogans- "media justice is self determination" "women are at the center of war" inspired by graffiti, photo-screened graphics, ethnic symbols, they are bursting with passion and righteouness, much like favianna and her colleagues.
Ted Leo, nervous? say it aint so.
to his credit, he says, modestly, that question of what makes you bring politics into your music actually makes him question if he is doing enough, esp. with his distingished other panelists.
"There are real people in policy equations and what they think and feel is best expressed through the arts...No one should tell you you don't have the right to appreciate the greater amount of beauty in the world..."
The highlight was ted's fave quote by "crass" a punk rock band that, in the middle of a song abuot the war over the flakland islands said "people ask us why don't sing love songs- everything we say and do is a love song. our love of life is total." inspired enthusiastic applause, because ted leo is just that deep and genuine and smart.
Rees is so quietly hilarious. the soft-spoken, boyish guy from "get Your War On" who goes on four-panel expletive-laden rages aginst the Bush admin. says "it was not my intention to offend anybody" and mocks himself for writing for "of course, the leading underground music publication- rolling stone."
rees and rodriguez disagreed about the role of corporations, with rees thinking its more benign and bottom-line oriented-
"if angry dissent left wing stuff makes money and gets peoplel to buy tickets and albums, then private companies will let it through the gate" citing Michael Moore as an example.
rodriguez countered insisting that corporate monopolization is increasingly dangerous and restrictive of thought, even down to education policy, requiring greater creativity, porbably outside the conventional market structure.
The quote that sums up the panel?
Hans Riemer, the moderator, "culture and entertainment is America's largest export"
Rees: "Other than freedom."
Ted Leo, nervous? say it aint so.
to his credit, he says, modestly, that question of what makes you bring politics into your music actually makes him question if he is doing enough, esp. with his distingished other panelists.
"There are real people in policy equations and what they think and feel is best expressed through the arts...No one should tell you you don't have the right to appreciate the greater amount of beauty in the world..."
The highlight was ted's fave quote by "crass" a punk rock band that, in the middle of a song abuot the war over the flakland islands said "people ask us why don't sing love songs- everything we say and do is a love song. our love of life is total." inspired enthusiastic applause, because ted leo is just that deep and genuine and smart.
Rees is so quietly hilarious. the soft-spoken, boyish guy from "get Your War On" who goes on four-panel expletive-laden rages aginst the Bush admin. says "it was not my intention to offend anybody" and mocks himself for writing for "of course, the leading underground music publication- rolling stone."
rees and rodriguez disagreed about the role of corporations, with rees thinking its more benign and bottom-line oriented-
"if angry dissent left wing stuff makes money and gets peoplel to buy tickets and albums, then private companies will let it through the gate" citing Michael Moore as an example.
rodriguez countered insisting that corporate monopolization is increasingly dangerous and restrictive of thought, even down to education policy, requiring greater creativity, porbably outside the conventional market structure.
The quote that sums up the panel?
Hans Riemer, the moderator, "culture and entertainment is America's largest export"
Rees: "Other than freedom."
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