FM on new PBS show "Get Up, Stand Up: The Story of Pop and Protest"

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Just noticed this on rockontv.com - they show it airing on Sept. 28th at 9 PM/8 PM central, but check your local listings, you know how effed up PBS programming can be.

Get Up, Stand Up: The Story of Pop and Protest
GET UP, STAND UP features James Brown, Bob Dylan, Marvin Gaye, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, Bob Marley, Bruce Springsteen, Sting and U2, with Joan Baez, the Beastie Boys, Harry Belafonte, Jackson Browne, Johnny Cash, the Clash, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Steve Earle, Fleetwood Mac, Peter Gabriel, Bob Geldof, Arlo Guthrie, Woody Guthrie, Mick Jagger, Curtis Mayfield, the MC5, Country Joe McDonald, Roger McGuinn, Willie Nelson, Nirvana, Odetta, Tom Paxton, Peter Paul and Mary, Rage Against the Machine, the Ramones, REM, Pete Seeger, Martin Sheen, Nina Simone, Sly Stone, Patti Smith, Stevie Wonder and more.

Get Up, Stand Up: The Story of Pop and Protest
Coming on the heels of this summer's worldwide Live 8 concert event, GET UP, STAND UP serves as a timely reminder of the potent role music has played in a century's worth of political protest. The film traces the birth of protest songs to the American union movement and explores the impact of pop culture in politicizing the baby boomer generation during the Vietnam era. As rock critic Charles Shaar Murray says in the program: "Suddenly, politics became something which, as a thinking pop fan, you were supposed to know about." The music in GET UP, STAND UP is omnipresent, moving seamlessly from "The Times They Are A-Changin' " to "Power to the People." By weaving historical footage and commentary from today's musicians and music critics, the program puts the power of pop into perspective. From the 1970s on, American musicians began taking on larger and larger issues in countries as diverse and far-flung as Bangladesh and Tibet. Benefit concerts and individual hit songs, including Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas" and USA for Africa's "We Are the World," raised millions while capturing the attention of billions worldwide.
Ultimately, GET UP, STAND UP is an investigation and a celebration, a reminder that pop can be so much more than simply "popular" music. Using songs as punctuation, the film chronicles the way music has been used throughout this century to convey social dissatisfaction, from labor unrest to terrorist attacks.


I'm guessing they'll mention the Clinton campaign and "Don't Stop?" Or the phenomenon of Rumours??