The Politics of Dancing

There’s the super “sounds of the 60s & 80s” music event Levitation that happens to be happening the weekend before the election. That seems fitting.
The last time we were in such a divided time in America was the 1960s, and music was a huge part of that era. Now, listening to 60s style psychedelic music (Acid Mother’s Temple, Mildlife)  just before the election should pack an interesting punch, partly because some of the bands are super-psychedelic.
Some of the bands at this event are also sort of 80s punk bands, (Nitzer Ebb, Gang of Four)  which was the last great era of political songwriting in America, something that our currently politically divided political times haven’t given us. 

If you are feeling like expanding your understanding of 1968, perhaps a visit to the new exhibit “Ain’t No Daylight in Vietnam: March 1968″ at Austin’s LBJ library that “takes you into the tumultuous world of March 1968” the time frame of the origin of that psychedelic music.

The echoes of 1968 are still reverberating through our society on multiple levels. Especially this weekend.