Music, politics, and culture all go hand-in-hand. As ideas grow and shift, the most prolific artists in music are constantly using their talent to tell the stories that need to be told. That's what we're focusing on this week-- the artists that dared to speak out through their music. From theLINER, here are the 5 best podcasts about music and politics.
LOUD - Underground and Underworld
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2JmfwE5ulmzoOYJcPj0SvW?si=q6u0t5VAQFmF5glTcXIdxA&dl_branch=1
LOUD is a comprehensive tell-all about the Reggaetón genre and it's uprising. In this episode, hear how Puerto Ricans fought back against the "Mano Dura"-- a government policy that allowed the invasion and occupation of housing projects-- with their music.
HTSAP - Where's Our Climate Anthem
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0Ehses6boox5kvTX9LfwGf?si=mdaxHshZTwesX77SWMRtkA&dl_branch=1
The greatest social movements tend to have one thing in common-- an anthem. Protest songs and anthems help unite people under a single idea, unifying them into a powerful force of for change. In this episode of How to Save a Planet, reporter Kendra Pierre-Louis scours the charts to find the best (and worst) of the world's social anthems.
Wind of Change - 1. My Friend Michael
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6FcuD2k2r2x6I1BmPCLz3f?si=GRvlOTVYRXqCAZaHhUP42w&dl_branch=1
The Scorpions' song Wind of Change is regarded as the anthem of the end of the Cold War, and celebrated as such. Decades later, investigative journalist Patrick Radden Keefe got a strange tip that maybe The Scorpions didn't write that song. Maybe the CIA did.
The Messenger - 1. Freedom
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0rB2F7ETMVoxTv6PjW6VCD?si=WsBERyBrS4GsBxVJoaI1yQ&dl_branch=1
In 2018, the world's attention was turned to a struggle for freedom in Uganda. In this episode of The Messenger, find out how Kanye West's involvement and popularizing of the issue through his strange methods changed the situation for better or worse.
Louder Than A Riot - The Conspiracy Against Hip-Hop
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0x0WPWzbWHfHQheShDTT0l?si=NUB-gJufRjqZ3CMUpy78nA&dl_branch=1
Killer Mike has a theory that hip-hop and mass incarceration have become undeniably linked within the last 40 years. What's his proof? A mysterious conspiracy letter leading back in time to the 80's, 90's and now tells of the corruption; from Reagan's war on drugs to a secret NYPD dossier of the world's biggest rappers.
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