Joan Baez is an American folk singer. Besides her song writing see also was an actavist campaining for many diffrent political causes.
The artist rose to fame from her performances at the Newport Folk Festival in 1959 as an unbilled artist.
She helped to bring the songs of Bob Dylan to national prominence, and has displayed a lifelong commitment to political and social activism in the fields of nonviolence, civil rights, human rights and the environment.
Below, the song "We Shall Overcome" was one of a few songs that Baez performed as part of her actavist movements. The song had originally been derived from Charles Robert Tindley. The original gospel lyrics were then transformed to an actvist song 1950, and fast became a song associated with the Civil rights movement.
Baez also campained for the likes of Civil Rights
Vietnam War, Human rights, Gay and lesbian rights, Environmental causes, War inIraq Opposing the death penalty, Poverty, the 2008 Presidential election and for the rights of Iran's people under the country's dictator like leader.
You need to link this post to aspects of your production and/or research re genre otherwise the post makes no sense...add an explanation. The same with the post on the Newport Folk Festival.
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