why the Rolling Stones are right to withdraw the song from their set list

  • Written by: Timothy McKenry, Professor of Music, Australian Catholic University
why the Rolling Stones are right to withdraw the song from their set listThe Rolling Stones performing last week in Pittsburgh.Emily Matthews/AP

The decision by the Rolling Stones to remove their 1971 song Brown Sugar from the set list for their upcoming US tour has drawn both praise and criticism.

Read by some as a surrender to the “woke brigade” and by others as a reasonable response to the accusation the...

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