Word: mta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SOME OF THE SONGS, most of them simple enough to sight-sing, and many of them relatively unknown, illustrate Seeger's musicological points. But I was most pleased at private discoveries--finding that a denunciation of an MTA fare hike someone once sang for me was originally a Progressive Party campaign song from the 1948 Boston mayoral race, or recognizing "The House Carpenter," an English Ballad, as a source or relative of Dylan's "Boots of Spanish Leather." There are enough songs for everyone to make similar discoveries of his own, or just to revel in familiar things, like...
...people were arrested, the ebb and flow of the crowd demolished two sections of a sturdy chain-link fence running down the MTA median strip, some firecrackers and missles were tossed, and to cap the evening, an automobile was set on fire...
...demonstrators remained on one side of Commonwealth Avenue in a stalemate with the police for about three hours. During that time, the street was closed to both automobile and MTA traffic...
Five persons were arrested in the initial police advance. During this 15 minute melee, two sections of a fence running down the middle of the MTA median strip were demolished. Following the initial skirmish, the protesters crowded on their side of the street, and listened to speeches and jeered at Republicans who entered the armory...
According to an eyewitness, the fight between the two men began at the MTA station is Harvard Square ten minutes before the shooting...