Culture: Bob Dylan in China

Robert Barron, WORD ON FIRE:

Father Barron responds to Maureen Dowd’s article in the New York Times in which she accuses Bob Dylan of “selling out” to the Chinese government at his recent concert in Beijing. Read his response here.

Knowing my interest in all things Bob Dylan, a friend sent me an article recently penned by Maureen Dowd, columnist for the New York Times. It had to do with the maestro’s recent (and unprecedented) appearance in China, but it was far from an encomium. Dowd took Bob Dylan sharply to task for caving in to the Communist authorities, apparently agreeing to their demands not to sing any of his best-known anti-war and counter-cultural anthems from the sixties:

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Armchair revolutionaries and spoiled brat artistes are all paper tigers.

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