Sophie Straat Fights Gentrification With Folk Music
Sophie Straat is reviving a style of music once popular in the working-class bars of Amsterdam to protest an increasingly expensive and homogenized city.
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Ella Jenkins, Musician Who Found an Audience in Children, Dies at 100
Performing and recording, she transformed what was seen as a marginal genre in the music industry into a celebration of shared humanity.
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Part-Time Farmers, Part-Time Rock Stars: A Chinese Band’s Unlikely Rise
The band, Varihnaz, has gained fans by offering an alternative to China’s hyper-polished, fast-paced modern life, with songs about pesticides and poultry raising.
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Barbara Dane, Who Fought Injustice Through Song, Dies at 97
She was highly regarded as a folk, blues and jazz singer. She was also ardently left-wing and prioritized social change over commercial success.