Censored News congratulates Searching for Sugar Man for winning the Oscar for Best Documentary, and the life and music of Sixto Diaz Rodriguez! Producers said Rodriguez didn't attend because he didn't want to take credit for the film, which says a lot about who he is. Censored News congratulates the people of South Africa, and elsewhere around the world, who allow censored music and thought to change their lives and the world we live in. Here's an article from Censored News on the power of music to change the world: Sugar Man, the Beatles and Buffy Sainte Marie!
How music cracked open the world: Searching for Sugar Man, How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin, and the music of Buffy Sainte Marie
By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
Dangerous Music: Sugar Man, Beatles and Buffy Sainte Marie
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| Sugar Man, Sixto Rodriquez |
By Brenda Norrell
Censored News
http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com
Searching for Sugar Man, and How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin,
tell the same story, in very different ways. Both films tell how music,
forbidden and censored music, transformed lives, instilled hope, moved
generations, and brought social change to two countries, South Africa
and the Soviet Union.
While music instilled the yearning for
freedom and liberation in South Africa and the Soviet Union, the leader
of the so-called free world, President Lyndon Johnson was putting Cree
singer Buffy Sainte Marie, the sound of American Indian resistance, out
of business.
Searching for Sugar Man
Sixto Diaz
Rodriguez didn't know he was more popular than Elvis and the Rolling
Stones in South Africa. At a time when South Africa demanded an end to
Apartheid, Sugar Man's music offered the hope of life in the open, life
unbound, life beyond borders. Rodriguez' music brought the message to
fight the establishment.