From Joan Baez to Taylor Swift: how musicians found a political voice

Taylor Swift’s intervention in the US midterm elections is all the more powerful because she is not typical of earlier activists

To a list that could begin with Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Jefferson Airplane, Marvin Gaye and Steppenwolf, now add… Taylor Swift.

It may seem a jump-cut, and in some ways it is, but Swift becomes the latest in a roll call of top-flight, mass-selling music stars to take a stand in American politics – again, as invariably, from a quarter which could be called the moral left.

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