David Little, a longtime progressive political activist and public policy communications consultant, will play records and talk about “Political & Protest Music Part 1: The Post-World War II Awakening 1946-1962″ at Wednesday’s Listen to This! session at downtown’s Main Library. He will show how, beginning with the Beat Era, politicized Folk music flowered in conjunction with an emerging consciousness of pressing national and international issues impacting American citizens.
7 p.m. Wednesday, July 30. Free. Popular Library lounge, First Floor, 800 Vine St., Downtown, cincinnatilibrary.org.
This article appears in Jul 23-29, 2014.