EVENT: ADVANCE SCREENING
CATEGORY: DIVERSE VOICES SERIES
DIRECTOR: RUDI DOLEZAL
DIRECTOR: HANNES ROSSACHER
DIRECTOR: SIMON WITTER

COUNTRY: AUSTRIA/GERMANY
LENGTH: 330 MINUTES
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
GENRE: DOCUMENTARY
RATING: N/A
AGES: N/A

GET UP, STAND UP: The Story of Pop Music and Protest Songs of the 60’s and 70’s

Since the early 20th century, musicians have come together in the name of human rights to fight war, hunger, corruption, oppression, AIDS, apartheid and third-world debt. GET UP, STAND UP serves as a timely reminder of the potent role music has played in a century's worth of political protest. The film traces the birth of protest songs to the American union movement and explores the impact of pop culture in politicizing the baby boomer generation during the Vietnam era. Presented with KUED and the City Library.