The irony is that music did change thing politically but to the right. I tend to get emails from people in Eastern Europe, some who come here because they got on the net and found that I knew Bob Dylan, if only calually from living twelve years in Dinkeytown.
In Eastern Europe under communism the opposistion was not allowed to use the "mainsteam media". Oppsition, make that "anti-communist" did have an ability to communicate a lot, often with enuendo, via live gatherings. Religion was one venue, thus the status, confusing to us of the late John Paul having near "rock star" status". Bob Dylan was revered by the "conservative activists" because he pulled it off with a really bad singing voice. A lot of anti-communists figured that they could do that and they could. Some are high ranking elected officials in post communist Eastern Europe.
The point is that music and musicians played a key roll in defeating communism, especially in Eastern Europe. As the old saying goes "nature hates a vacuum." The far left views are already way overrepresented in the mainstream media. You don't need vapid lefty musicians to repeat them. No vacuum.
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