The Art of Political Song is the topic of Radio Curious with singer â songwriter, David Rovics who discusses how he creates his songs, some of which heâll sing, and what he hopes they will achieve.Â
Barry Vogel, Attorney and Counselor, is the Host and Producer of Radio Curious. Christina Aanestad is the Assistant Producer.
Songs of a political nature are not surprising given the similarities and parallel community structures of politics and religions, with each community promoting the behaviors and concepts it supports as being the most appropriate. Â The art of political song, which has been crafted and heard world wide since time immemorial, is the topic of this edition of Radio Curious.
In this program we visit with singerâsongwriter David Rovics, a veritable troubadour and folk musician of our time. He visited the studios of Radio Curious on December 9, 2012, and began our conversation when he described his work, his songs, and how he creates them. Â
The following is his biography taken from his website. â¨âDavid Rovics grew up in a family of classical musicians in Wilton, Connecticut, and became a fan of populist regimes early on. By the early 90's he was a full-time busker in the Boston subways and by the mid-90's he was traveling the world as a professional flat-picking rabble-rouser. These days David lives in Portland, Oregon and tours regularly on four continents, playing for audiences large and small at cafes, pubs, universities, churches, union halls and protest rallies. He has shared the stage with a veritable who's who of the left in two dozen countries, and has had his music featured on Democracy Now!, BBC, Al-Jazeera and other networks. His essays are published regularly on CounterPunch and elsewhere, and the 200+ songs he makes available for free on the web have been downloaded more than a million times. Most importantly, he's really good. He will make you laugh, he will make you cry, he will make the revolution irresistible.â
Based in Portland, Oregon, David Rovics spends most of his time on tour. The book he recommends is âRaising Our Children, Raising Ourselves,â by Naomi Aldort.  Radio Curious is a half-hour, weekly, long-form interview program, now in it's 24th year. We interview people on a curiously wide variety of topics about life and ideas. Our website is www.radiocurious.org. If your station airs Radio Curious please let us know curious@radiocurious.org, we will add you to our list of syndicate stations. We also welcome questions, feedback and program ideas. Radio Curious 280 N. Oak St. Ukiah, Ca 95482. (707) 462-6541.