Without Joan Baez, its hard to say what the intersection of American music and social justice would look like, if it had ended up looking like anything at all. Music, of course, is not inherently ...

Despite the music industry’s well-deserved reputation of being a cutthroat business, there have been plenty of musical superstars who helped launch the careers of other future stars. Some artists, ...

Few living artists can conjure up such vivid images of the intoxicating excitement of the 1960s Free Speech and anti-war movements as Joan Baez. This bygone era seems to hang over Berkeley like an ...