Who is Barbara Dane? If you don’t know, you’re in for a ride! In the latest documentary by veteran filmmakers Maureen Gosling (Burden of Dreams) and Jed Riffe (Ishi, the Last Yahi), American counterculture history gets a high-energy shakeup in the story of a blues/jazz/folk singer, activist, feminist, record producer, and committed troublemaker. Dane's nine-decade journey shreds existing narratives around 1940s communism, 1950s white femininity, the joy and politics of the 1960s folk scene, the 1970s GI Anti-War movement, and the 1980s Iran-Contra affair. Her unbending principles guide her through notoriety, obscurity, and finally, music legend.
Who is Barbara Dane? If you don’t know, you’re in for a ride! In the latest documentary by veteran filmmakers Maureen Gosling (Burden of Dreams) and Jed Riffe (Ishi, the Last Yahi), American counterculture history gets a high-energy shakeup in the story of a blues/jazz/folk singer, activist, feminist, record producer, and committed troublemaker. Dane's nine-decade journey shreds existing narratives around 1940s communism, 1950s white femininity, the joy and politics of the 1960s folk scene, the 1970s GI Anti-War movement, and the 1980s Iran-Contra affair. Her unbending principles guide her through notoriety, obscurity, and finally, music legend.
