![]() ![]() You can take a roomful of people and make them feel their kinship in a way that nothing else can with a song.ĪMY GOODMAN: That film directed by Maureen Gosling, who’s making a new film about Barbara Dane.īarbara Dane has led a groundbreaking life. ![]() ![]() NARRATOR: All her life, Dane has been deeply involved in social activism, fighting racism in the ’40s and ’50s, in the ’60s singing at demonstrations against nuclear power and at protests against the Vietnam War.īARBARA DANE: Hell no, we won’t goīARBARA DANE: Why would I want to stand up in front of a bunch of people singing something that I don’t even care about the words to, shaking them maracas, you know, wearing a low-cut dress, when I could be out here changing the world with these other people?īARBARA DANE: Over in the Congress,īARBARA DANE: I think there’s a power in music that unites people beyond their willpower even. There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun. PETE SEEGER, JOAN BAEZ, PHIL OCHS, PETER YARROW & BARBARA DANE: When the union’s inspiration through the workers’ blood shall run, NARRATOR: Barbara Dane has been a nightclub owner, social activist, record producer and hellraiser at large. I’ve got that old-fashioned love in my heart. NARRATOR: During her more than half-century in music, Barbara Dane has performed with an unbelievably diverse range of music greats, blues legends Lightnin’ Hopkins, the Chambers Brothers, Memphis Slim and Willie Dixon, jazz greats like Earl Hines, Jack Teagarden and Louis Armstrong.īARBARA DANE: Though the dry land changed to sea I think that is a profound contribution to not only the arts but to humanity. JAMES EARLY: Across the ideological spectrum of Black America, they recognize themselves in your voice. NARRATOR: When Barbara Dane burst onto the scene in the late 1950s, Playboy magazine’s jazz critic Leonard Feather called her “Bessie Smith in stereo.” And Time magazine described her voice as “pure, rich, rare as a twenty carat diamond.”īARBARA DANE: Won’t you come along with me You know, it didn’t contain within little boxes.īARBARA DANE: No, there ain’t nobody I always had a very open-minded approach to music, because, to me, it’s all one thing. Pete Seeger often called her one of the most remarkable American musicians of all.īARBARA DANE: I was carrying a guitar around and singing everything I could get my hands on. We’re joined today by the singer and activist Barbara Dane. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!,, The War and Peace Report. ![]()
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