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  1. “I’ve memorized Lerner and Golden / I feel like I’m almost a #Jew!” sang the late #protest #singer #PhilOchs. This might fall suspect on your ears, as he calls out noted #Jewish journalists of his era from a goyish philosemitic point of view.

    What is not often discussed? #Ochs himself was Jewish, and this line was a bit of #political #satire. Perhaps you’ve never heard of him until now, but allow me to introduce you to this Jewish #protestsinger that more people should know about, especially in our current political climate.

    His middle-class Jewish family moved around during his youth from #Texas to #NewYork and finally #Ohio. The young Ochs would turn out to be a clarinet prodigy who joined a university orchestra at age 15. Certainly talented enough to make your #bubbe’s upwardly-mobile #shtetl #neshume #kvell. But then his life would unwind, some say into madness, others would say into genius."

    heyalma.com/the-jewish-protest

  2. youtube.com/watch?v=tFFOUkipI4
    #musica #pacifismo
    "Draft Dodger Rag" è una canzone satirica contro la guerra scritta da Phil #Ochs, un cantante di protesta americano degli anni '60 noto per essere un duro critico del complesso militare-industriale americano. Originariamente pubblicato nel suo album del 1965, "I Ain't Marching Anymore", "Draft Dodger Rag" divenne rapidamente un inno del movimento anti-#Vietnam.