Bloody Crossroads 2020, Danny Goldberg
Bloody Crossroads 2020, Danny Goldberg
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Bloody Crossroads 2020
Art, Entertainment, and Resistance to Trump

Author: Danny Goldberg

Narrator: Danny Goldberg

Unabridged: 11 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/23/2021

Synopsis

Bloody Crossroads 2020 takes a deep dive into the role that mass-appeal movies, television, videos, and music played in America's political culture in the year of Donald Trump's failed reelection campaign. The book also explores the impact of entertainment celebrities in communications, fundraising, and campaigning to support the election of Joe Biden.

Trump's ascension to the presidency in 2016 triggered an unprecedented level of engagement by artists and performers. Within days of the 2016 election, a critical mass of entertainers all seemed to have heard the tom-tom beat of resistance at the same moment and amplified a moral alternative to Trumpism. That level of engagement intensified with rare passion and purpose in the period of 2020 chronicled in Bloody Crossroads 2020, culminating in Trump's failed insurrection.

Bloody Crossroads 2020 draws from brand-new interviews with Bruce Springsteen, John Legend, Rosanne Cash, David Simon, Adam McKay, Chuck D, David Corn, Mandy Patinkin, and many more. It also explores the important political activities of entertainers like Stephen Colbert, Trevor Noah, Taylor Swift, Cardi B, Alyssa Milano, Mark Ruffalo, Jane Fonda, Robert De Niro, Bette Midler, Steven Spielberg, Spike Lee, Ava DuVernay, Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock, and Wanda Sykes.

About Danny Goldberg

Danny Goldberg is the author of How the Left Lost Teen Spirit and Bumping Into Geniuses: My Life Inside the Rock and Roll Business. Since 2007 he has served as president of Gold Village Entertainment, whose clients include Steve Earle and Against Me. Previously, Goldberg was president of Gold Mountain Entertainment (Nirvana, Bonnie Raitt, the Allman Brothers), CEO of Air America Radio, chairman of Warner Bros. Records, president of Atlantic Records, and vice president of Led Zeppelin's Swan Song Records.

Reviews

Goodreads review by J Earl on March 20, 2022

Bloody Crossroads 2020: Art, Entertainment, and Resistance to Trump by Danny Goldberg is like an insightful diary of the intersection of popular culture and politics as they joined forces to oppose Trump. Like the title says, this is a book about resistance to Trump, so any call for equal time for ce......more

Goodreads review by Hannah on November 18, 2021

Why reflect back on 2020? The year was complicated, challenging and difficult verging on horrific for some. Bloody Crossroads dissects the year by addressing how our public figures, political and artistic (including those of questionable celebrity) responded to the extreme edges twelve months of dua......more

Goodreads review by Doug on February 05, 2022

I wanted to like this better than I did. It’s jammed with factoids for a 252 page book, which makes it listy rather than insightful. The author’s and the book’s biases line up with my biases, but even with that, I was put off by how slanted it was. True, the book was about the entertainment industry......more

Goodreads review by Judie on November 15, 2022

American politics has changed immensely during the past few decades. At one point, people would know the issues that were important to them and the voters’ positions would guide the elected officials. The 1960s were the years of civil rights and antiwar movements. Music was the common denominator.......more

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