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While Consolidated makes music about the politics of sex, the punk-pop band Pansy Division make music about sex itself. Some of the more outrageous attacks on the band appear on their CDs. A feature of their live shows is an open mike session where the audience can criticize the band and make political points.

Their latest release, Business of Punishment, is solidly in the Andrea Dworkin camp of sexual politics, but unlike many campers, Consolidated makes it clear they don’t have all the answers. The band doesn’t make apologies for being privileged white male heterosexuals they acknowledge their position and offer their support to those who are oppressed. Consolidated makes music which confronts the contradiction of rock and roll as rebellion and commodity, the oppression of women, and the politics of meat.

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Since much has already been written about the politics of rap and the “Riot Grrrl” movement in alternative rock, for this article I’ll leave out these genres.Ĭonsolidated is a trio that describes itself as “he hardest, liberal, vegetarian, pro-choice, lesbian- and gay-supporting motherfuckers from San Francisco.” Their recordings are collages of TV news samples, hip hop beats, harsh industrial noise and raps that are more rhyming text than lyrics. Unlike those previous counter-cultures, we are not a rejection of what came before, but a toothless hybrid, removing the basically serious intent from the movements of the late `60s and late `70s and emerging with what amounts to little more than a fashion trend.” Politics and Music in the ’90sīut here I’ll present a few bands and artists whose work is hardly toothless.

We have directed our rebellion inward,seeking to provoke pity, disgust and regret in our parents rather than the fear of patricidal upheaval sought by previous ‘counter-cultures’…. “It is a culture of contrived contrariness…. As Daniel Clowes writes in his comic Eightball (Issue 15, April 1994): Its trappings - loud, thrashy noise and mosh pits - have been usurped by reactionary metal bands and the much hyped grunge sound.ĭespite producing some great bands - Nirvana, Mudhoney, Hole - grunge never produced the revolutionary or iconoclastic movement that punk was in the late `70s. Hardcore, which produced such important groups as the Minutemen, Millions of Dead Cops and the Dead Kennedys, has gone out of style.

The revolutionary potential of rap and reggae has been largely blunted by the misdirected rage and misogyny of gangsta rap and gun songs. The polemics of peace movement folksingers and womyn’s musicians have failed to break out of their niches. So far, the Clinton years have lacked the musical opposition that flourished during the Reagan-Bush years. How’s it sound? The Daybreak Mailorder catalog describes it as coming from the Lester Young (the real “Prez”) school of saxophone: “He tosses in a Sonny Rollins lick here and there, reaches for some high notes, slurs a few blue notes, and when his ideas run out he resorts to machine-gun tonguing.” Substitute George Bush for Sonny Rollins and you have a decent characterization of both Clinton’s playing and his presidential style.Ĭlinton’s campaign theme song contained the line “Yesterday’s gone, yesterday’s gone,” but his presidency has failed to produce anything new politically or musically. This Czech jam session was released on CD as The Pres Blows. Clinton climbed on stage and jammed with the band, running through the standards “Summertime” and “My Funny Valentine.” Havel, a fan of the late Frank Zappa, presented Clinton with a gift saxophone.

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