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Arts Express
Wed, Sep 10, 2025 9:00 PM
CHRIS COOPER CHECKS IN
** "It's a beautiful line to contemplate, The History Of Sound, the daily sounds of life that are lost. I get very emotional thinking about something like that - those people that you love, that are lost, gone..."
Chris Cooper Talks The History Of Sound, Matewan - and how art saves us from life...Cooper discusses The History Of Sound's rural journey of two World War I era characters, music conservatory students, to record and preserve ballads sung on farms through the centuries.
And the veteran actor as one of those men in later years, looking back on tragic moments surrounding war, love and loss - reflecting as well on his own rural blue collar roots - and regarding the intoxicating music laced through this film, how art has the power to save us from life...
Cooper also revisits his first starring role in that enduring John Sayles labor uprising classic, Matewan - a militant homage to the 1920's West Virginia coal mining wars back then.
** "Tensions are rising..." - 'that's how you know you're in a propagandized war machine...'
Pacifica Host Garland Nixon breaks down the corporate media coded language. Plus, what is the Fox News threat to blow up that Russia/China pipeline all about. With connections to Air America, Facebook censorship, the CIA and putting two bullets in the head of Gary Webb - and Venezuela, and a guy at the ATM machine with a gun in my face...
** "*In a world where narrative control is essential for ruling class dominance, one of the main weapons in the class war is media manipulation..."
Copaganda: How The Police And The Media Manipulate Our News. A Conversation With Author And Civil Rights Lawyer, Alec Karakatsanis. And what it has to do with the punishment bureaucracy, what exactly is copaganda, shoplifting versus wage theft - and fighting for 'the right to hug' in the US prison industry...