Satirical songster Dave Lippman takes to the road with the Bard of the Bankers, Wild Bill Bailout, in hot pursuit. Current victims of his parody and thrust include climate change default swaps, Sport Futility Vehicles, the Axis of Pretty Bad, and of course Wal-Mart. Get ready for high-end pop rewrites and some very wise cracks.
Colleges/universities/high schools: workshops/classroom
sessions available - see below
"Lippman is a national treasure" - L.A.
Herald-Examiner
"Viciously funny" - Guardian (England)
"One of my favorite political satirists. This is a very funny man."
- Erich Lee Preminger
"The Dean felt that more harm than good would come from
your visit" - student, Skidmore College, New York
"God, that man can talk! What a great writer!" - Utah
Phillips
Lippman's songs, released on numerous albums over the last 20 years, bear such bucolic and transcendent titles as "I Hate Walmart" "The Stocks They Are Exchangin'," and "Battle Him in Public." His CDs receive airplay on anticommercial radio throughout the country.
Available
multi-media presentations:
Multimedia musical piece on
Venezuela: THE STREAMS ARE FINDING
THE RIVER
artistic close-up look at cooperatives and Chavistas, based on
2006 tour
GOT CIVIL LIBERTIES?
Jumping off from the ACLU's Lippman
case in Miami, a brief talk with visuals on the trends in free speech and
assembly in these, the bad old days.
Eyewitness song/sound/picture piece on Palestine/Israel: STAR OF GOLIATH
"Better than a million history teachers in a million classrooms
could do!"
- a history teacher
Dave Lippman's 2004 visit to Palestine and Israel resulted in a
multimedia piece, "Star of Goliath," which encapsulates modern Holy
Land history and imperial machinations, with attention to varying
Jewish views on Israel and the struggle for Palestinian survival
and sovereignty. Songs, slides and sounds to open hearts and
minds. More reviews/Watch
the trailer
College/high school workshops and classroom
sessions available: Lectures with musical/visual presentation and
discussion period on Palestine/Israel, Venezuela, Civil Liberties (see descriptons above)
Also: The Sixties, Songwriting, Comedy, Advertising
