{"id":12408,"date":"2021-06-08T16:44:53","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T21:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/?p=12408"},"modified":"2021-06-09T11:09:35","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T16:09:35","slug":"diana-jones-masterwork-of-cross-cultural-empathy-finally-get-its-stateside-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/?p=12408","title":{"rendered":"Diana Jones’ masterwork of border-crisis empathy belatedly gets stateside release"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cover of Diana Jones album “Song to a Refugee.” Courtesy Proper Records<\/em><\/p>\n

The exquisite singer-songwriter Diana Jones reached a career peak with the 2020 release of her album Song to a Refugee<\/em>, which I reviewed when it was released. However, at the time, her British label, Proper Records, only released it in the British Isles and Europe, even though the Greenwich Village-based artist’s inspiration and focus was the U.S. border crisis during the Trump administration’s travesty of policy cruelty. <\/span><\/p>\n

The issue remains painful as righting the horrible wrongs of that administration will take time. Proper has now released the album stateside, prompting a fine interview feature from <\/span>The New York Times. (Due to a peculiar Times change in link sharing, Culture Currents, as a Times subscriber, can only share the Diana Jones article link on my (Kevin Lynch) Facebook page post of this blog post).<\/em><\/p>\n