42. Keep the Little Flame Alive w/ Carsie Blanton

I sit down with socialist singer-songwriter Carsie Blanton to explore how unstructured freedom — from schooling, the music industry, and institutional religion — became the soil for her political and artistic radicalization. A stack of jazz records from her grandfather led to countless gigs, poltical organizing, and eventually to the Global Sumud Flotilla, where she and her comrades used dialectical materialism to assess risk—when they weren't singing "Little Flame".

NOTE: This is the finale of season 1! I'll be catching up on rest and taking more family time for August but will be back on September 9th. 

Sources:

carsieblanton.com
YouTube — Carsie Blanton
Instagram @carsieblanton
TikTok @carsieblantonmusic
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The Nation — Rich People and the Music Business
Nina Simone — "To Be Young, Gifted and Black" (official audio)
Ken Burns Jazz (PBS)
Mark Fisher — Capitalist Realism (Zer0 Books)
Elizabeth Gilbert on creative work "choosing" the artist — Big Magic
People's Forum, New York
The Burning Hell (band)
Global Sumud Flotilla — Freedom Flotilla Coalition
Artists Against Apartheid
Adam Phillips on boredom — On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored (Harvard University Press)

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