Obamaworld ushered in a new form of integration that makes me very happy: Country singers in the Democratic Party!
Singing at Barack Obama’s inauguration were none other than country superstars Garth Brooks and Jennifer “Sugarland” Nettles (pictured at right, below and center). Country supercouple Tim McGraw and Faith Hill (shown top right) celebrated with a sparkling [...]
Filed under: African American, Music, Politics by Marc Breindel
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What an exciting development: A group of Saudi Arabian college classmates — all women — have formed a hot rock group, The AccoLade.
Having a good time playing music is their main goal, the rockers say. So while they seem to be bucking a Saudi system that limits women’s activities, they’re striving to avoid controversy as [...]
Filed under: Gender, Middle East, Music by Marc Breindel
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I just read a really cool article in The New York Times about a virtually royal French Jewish woman who devoted her life to supporting the work of brilliant but often broke African-American jazz greats in New York City. It’s a romantic an inspiring story.
The woman was Baroness Kathleen Annie Pannonica Rothschild de Koenigswarte, known [...]
Filed under: African American, Gender, Jewish American, Music by Marc Breindel
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Sad story from a long war. Haroon Bacha (pictured, center), a singer of peaceful songs, has fled his home and left his family in Pakistan to take refuge in Queens, New York.
Here’s an excerpt from a longer New York Times article:
Mr. Bacha, 36, is a Pashtun, the Muslim ethnic group of the mountainous northwest of [...]
Filed under: Music, South Asia by Marc Breindel
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