....One example of her versatility is "Insubordination," a call-and-response song she considers perfect for rallies. "I used it a lot because I could do it with clapping, or if I happened to have a tambourine," she said. "I didn't need a guitar. So if they started pushing the crowd, I could run away. I didn't have to worry about my instrument getting broken or anything."

Ms. Dane plans to perform "Insubordination" at Joe's Pub along with other songs that she says still apply: "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?," from the Depression, and "What Are You Gonna Do When There Ain't No Jazz," about Prohibition. Also performing on the bill are other voices of the 60's, like Tuli Kupferberg of the Fugs, Vietnam veterans like Watermelon Slim and Joe Bangert and younger musicians like Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, Dean Wareham of Luna, Jenni Muldaur, Lenny Kaye and Stephan Smith.

...."We're probably not going to live to see the solutions to the problems that we have to sing about or combat," she said. "We're not going to see a ready-made answer or things fall into place. The world doesn't work that way. But it's so much more fulfilling to be part of the side that expresses life." Besides being a very interesting piece of musicological archaeology - folk songs from the North Vietnamese point of view! - this reinforces my point that many aritists, and anti-war protesters in general, are ALWAYS against war, period, and in fact any kind of aggressive governmental action that doesn't involve the redistribution of income or worker's rights. Is this legitimate perspecitve? Sure, all policy should be held up to scrutiny, but this kind of blanket contrarian approach makes it hard to take many protests against THIS PARTICULAR WAR hard to take very seriously. The show at Joe's Pub sounds great artistically, but pretty generic politically: war causes death, death is bad, war is always bad. Unless it isn't.