Music Is Free Speech
How artists are fighting back against the powerful forces trying to silence them.
I’ve been thinking about the power of music and cultural movements a lot lately, not least because I just interviewed the Oklahoma City alt-pop musician Lincka, whose song “Chinga La Migra” is quickly becoming an anthem for anti-ICE protests, and whose music in general soothes me (in an upbeat, dancey way). It feels disorienting and often terrifying to witness the real-time collapse of institutions and peace both in the U.S. and abroad, not to mention the way free speech is being chilled in democracies around the world.
