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Jonathan Ross and Ricky Gervais in the BBC TV studio at Live 8 with the concert audience in the background. In the United Kingdom, the BBC provided full television coverage, starting on BBC Two from 13:00 and continuing from 18:15 on BBC One, right up to the end of the concert at 00:00. The advertised changeover time was 16:15, disappointing ...
The A Conspiracy of Hope US tour spanned six concerts over a ten-day period in June 1986 and culminated in an eleven-hour concert at New Jersey's Giants Stadium that was aired as an all-day Live Aid style broadcast on MTV. Artists who played at all six concerts on the tour were: U2, Sting, Peter Gabriel, Bryan Adams, Lou Reed, Joan Baez and The ...
Protest songs in the United States are a tradition that dates back to the early 18th century and have persisted and evolved as an aspect of American culture through the present day. Many American social movements have inspired protest songs spanning a variety of musical genres including but not limited to rap, folk, rock, and pop music.
The Hartford Police Department will have “a lot of police presence for the concert” Sunday by Jason Aldean at Xfinity Theatre, outside which a group plans a peaceful event to show displeasure ...
The rash of protests at college campuses across the nation over the Israel-Hamas war, including violent clashes at UCLA and most notably a building takeover by protesters at Columbia University in ...
Protest music was a big feature of plays organized by the Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA). Similar organisations formed after the break-up of IPTA and highly influenced by its work, like the Jana Natya Manch (JANAM), also made protest music a regular feature of their plays. In recent decades, however, the Left's cultural activism has ...
Rock Against Bush was a project mobilizing punk and alternative musicians against the 2004 U.S. Presidential re-election campaign of George W. Bush.At its core was the idea of using music to create an anti-war, pro-peace sentiment, similar to counterculture music movements of the 1960s and 1970s, such as Woodstock.
Editor’s Note: For the latest news, follow our live story here.. National political leaders ratcheted up the pressure for Columbia University President Minouche Shafik to step down on Wednesday ...