HD Issue #1 - click to go to Download page
Friends of Music and Political Change,
After much sweat and battling with one of our computers, the premiere issue of Harmonic Dissidents is out! Some of us from the Honk!Fest street band community have pooled our efforts to produce this interactive magazine and website. We hope you can use it to promote music as a force for positive political change. Harmonic Dissidents #1 contains:
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Inside looks at Obama’s plan to stimulate community music,
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Ready-to-play arrangements of some good tunes,
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Reports from bands with great ideas on performance opportunities,
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Perspectives on community music making,
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A profile of community music advocate Charlie Keil, and
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Plans for Honk!Fest 4 in Somerville, MA, Oct 9-11.
You can download the whole magazine in a variety of formats here. You can also read individual articles here on the website and submit comments regarding each article if you so wish. Links are to the right in the navigation column.
Of course you will find more links there to other stories and websites but you will also find a link or two to our wiki.
You can contribute comments at the end of each article. In our Forums you can join in our growing online community. Feel free to propose new subjects pertinent to promoting street music and a more open society there. As we continue to evolve our archives will too and more information about street bands will be found there.
We hope you will be an active participant in this project. Share your thoughts, report on your band, or contribute an article, arrangement, video or graphic. Spread the word at Honk!Fest and here on Harmonic Dissidents.
many thanks, Bill Clifford
for the Harmonic Dissidents Editorial Committee
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