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What music plays in this kitchen? Bjork, Madonna, Joan Baez, Frank Sinatra, The White Stripes...
...folk music. By the time I was 21, I had my first record, and my career was thriving. I was shuttling between Connecticut and the folk venues of Greenwich Village and traveling the circuit throughout the country, getting to know kindred spirits such as Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Joan Baez and Peter, Paul and Mary. I lent my support by singing in Mississippi during the voter-registration drive for African Americans in 1964 and at rallies protesting the Vietnam...
MUSIC | Joan Baez...
...legendary 60s activist, Joan Baez performed at MLK’s 1963 March on Washington, participated in the Free Speech movement at UC Berkeley and co-founded the Institute for the Study of Nonviolence. She’s also a talented soprano, a versatile folk rock star, a six-time Grammy Award-nominee and a Woodstock performer. 8 p.m. $30.50-$38. Berklee Performance Center, 136 Mass. Ave., Boston...
...European decadence. (This was before Robert Mapplethorpe showed us that dog collars were as American as Rin Tin Tin.) It was a moment of witchy aftershocks from the '60s, when the energies of liberation had moved on to less wholesome destinations. Instead of pot, cocaine; instead of Joan Baez, Patty Hearst. Newton plunged into this atmosphere with pictures of deluxe women in bondage gear and lesbian lip locks. They pinned men to the ground, wrestled each other and glared at us from couches in the best hotels, sometimes baring their breasts and (implicitly) their fangs...