From the earliest time, music has provided the spirit of the labor movement. One of the concerns of the most politicized of the 1960s anti-war activists was that the music they listened to was not in keeping, for the most part, with historical workers' music - had they been co-opted? Much of the anti-war music was not specifically political, it didn't speak the language of class struggle. The folk movement that preceded it - now that was a different story. (how many of us know the tale of Pete Seeger's reaction to Dylan's electrified guitar? Dylan plugs in, fans plug out?
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