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Barbara Dane

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Also known as Barbara Cahn

American singer

Person · Open Library

Works
3

Top works

  • This Bell Still Rings
  • Doing More with Less
  • The Vietnam songbook

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1927-05-12
Active to
2024-10-20

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
43,706
Total plays
307,304

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folkbluessinger-songwriterfemale vocalistspolitical

Barbara Dane (born Barbara Jean Spillman in in Detroit, MI, on 12 May 1927; died 20 October 2024) was an American folk, blues, and jazz singer, guitarist, record producer, and political activist. She co-founded Paredon Records with Irwin Silber. Born into a white middle-class family, as a child Dane sang and played piano in Sunday school and also learned to play guitar. Right out of high school, she began to raise her strong voice regularly at demonstrations for racial equality and economic j

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Barbara Dane - Southern Campus 1960.jpg
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date of birth
1927-05-12
Commons category
Barbara Dane
name in native language
Barbara Dane
start of work period
1957-00-00
date of death
2024-10-20
end of work period
2024-00-00
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