David Rovics

David Rovics is an indie singer/songwriter and outspoken grassroots political protester from the United States. His music is most accurately described as protest-folk and concerns topical subjects such as the 2003 Iraq war, anti-globalisation and social justice issues. Rovics is also an outspoken critic of George W. Bush, but also of John Kerry. He is also vocal on these subjects on stage, radio shows and in press releases.

Related Topics:
Indie - Grassroots - 2003 Iraq war - Anti-globalisation - Social justice - George W. Bush - John Kerry

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Although most of Rovic's work is fully-copyrighted and commercially-distributed, Rovics has made most of his music freely available as downloadable mp3 files from his website. He encourages the free distribution of his work by all non-profit means to promote his work and spread political messages, and speaks out against websites or programs like iTunes that charge money for downloading his songs, deeming even a price of 99 cents per song "too expensive". Rovics has also advocated the performing of his songs at protests and demonstrations and has made his sheet music and lyrics available for download to this end. It is worth noting that this means of promotion contains elements of the copyleft licensing scheme.

Related Topics:
Copyrighted - Mp3 - Non-profit - ITunes - Promotion - Copyleft

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Although Rovics is not strongly associated with any particular political or ideological movement, his lyrics and recorded interviews encompass a wide range of left-wing, humanitarian interests. He has suggested a commonality or synthesis between these varied ideologies in several of his radio interviews, and cites his music as a means to disseminate these ideas.

Related Topics:
Left-wing - Humanitarian - Synthesis

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