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From Pink's album "I'm Not Dead"Pop Protest
Protest music is not just for the 60s set. Beyond the Dylans and the Seegers of an earlier generation, artists of today are coming out with their own form of protest song. Find out what’s making Pink and Kanye West go political. Plus ex-CIA agent (anonymous no longer) Mike Scheuer on the changes at the Agency.
Hayden Seek
Mike Scheuer, former CIA agent, CBS terrorism analyst and author,
Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror (Potomac Books, 2004)
- on the nomination of General Hayden to head the CIA
» bio and articles for the Jamestown Foundation
Pop Protest
Todd Gitlin, Professor of Journalism and Sociology at Columbia University
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Kelefa Sanneh, pop critic for The New York Times and contributing editor at Transition, an international review of race and culture
- on the generational differences of protest songs
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» Kelefa Sanneh at the New York Times
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