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| From | "Jason Damas" <jason.damas@gmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Music & Politics |
| Date | Sun, 12 Nov 2006 09:39:39 -0500 |
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<< >Can anyone help me think of decent musicians who espouse political
>conservatism? >>
Like I'd said before, isn't Graham Parker a conservative? Also in a similar
bucket, Joe Jackson has over the years written quite a few
conservative-leaning songs.
Also there's Ray Davies, an artist who has created music whose very charms
often hinged off of conservatism (Village Green Preservation Society) but
bar a few songs from the '70s like "Black Messiah" and "Live Life" I can't
think of anything we'd consider explicitly conservative by modern standards.
Also, while it isn't exactly a fair characterization, I tend to think that a
lot of modern Christian artists are conservatives, though I do realize this
may be making a leap. Since this
scene is one that's overlapped with power pop for some time (Doug Powell,
The Elms, Owsley, etc.) then I don't know where you draw the line here or if
you just ignore it as a category. They're definitely artists I enjoy
regardless.
Also if anyone's interested, the National Review actually published a list
of the 50 Greatest Conservative Rock Songs back in May. Some of these are
silly; many are songs by more liberal artists that side with traditional
Conservatism (or Libertarianism) through a simple anti-tax or
anti-regulation rallying cry (The Beatles' "Taxman" appears), but everyone
loves a silly list to argue over:
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NzZkNDU5MmViNzVjNzkzMDE3NzNlN2MyZjRjYTk4YjE=
Also, to go completely off-topic, I read an interview recently where Toby
Keith said he's actually a lifelong Democrat. It goes to show that you never
know; the guy's less a true conservative than an inarticulate lunkhead.
--J
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