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Broadside Magazine was founded in 1962 by Agnes “Sis” Cunningham and her husband, Gordon Friesen, as a small mimeographed publication. By the end of the seventies it had virtually ceased publication. In 1982 it was revived by Norman Ross, a publisher and songwriter, and Jeff Ritter, a musician and folklorist. Sis & Gordon published Nos. 1-145. Norman & Jeff then published 146-180, after which Sis & Gordon published 6 more issues, and then quit. All issues from # 1-186 are now available free on this site. None of the first 145 issues had names or themes, but many of those in the 146-180 group did. In many of the early issues the pages were not numbered–or some were and some weren’t! There are several indexes to Nos. 1-145 that were created in the 1980s and there are two indexes to 146-186 that were created especially for this website. Unfortunately, we have not yet been able to combine them.
Sis Cunningham was a songwriter and a member of the Almanac Singers (with Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Millard Lampell, Bess Lomax Hawes and others). Jeff Ritter is a member of the Beagle Brothers. Norman Ross plays guitar with his grandson, Asher Ross Grossman, and sings off key.
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- # 146 Revival & Survival: Songs by Bob Dylan, Holly Near, Tom Paxton, Malvina Reynolds, Pete Seeger, etc.
- # 147 Phil Ochs Issue
- # 148 The Broadside Benefit Concert–with Photos
- # 149 Songs of Freedom & Struggle
- # 150 God Bless the Grass: Environmental Songs. Guest Editor, Paul Kaplan
- # 151 Shades of Struggle, Colors of Victory
- # 152 Now That the Buffalo’s Gone. Guest Editor, Roland Mousaa
- # 153 Crossing the Borders. Guest Editor, Bob Norman
- # 154 Special Issue: Peggy Seeger & Ewan MacColl
- # 155 Let’s Talk Peace
- # 156 1984 Election Issue. Guest Editor, Oscar Brand
- # 157 Lee Hays–A Celebration. Guest Editor, Doris Kaplan
- # 158 New Children’s Songs. Guest Editor, Lydia Adams Davis
- # 159 Songs for Peace & Justice in the Middle East
- # 160 Keeping the Issues Alive!
- # 161 Folk Counterculture. Guest Editor, Tom Goodkind
- # 162 Greetings from Mandela Hall!
- # 163 Billy Bragg Issue
- # 164 I Don’t Want to Fight Over God
- # 165 Housing & Other Neighborhoold Organizing Songs. Guest Editor, Charlie Ipcar
- # 166 Arlo Guthrie
- # 167 Politics & Circumstance
- # 168 Folk Music Success
- # 169 Real World Love Songs (For Real World Lovers). Guest Editor, Judy Gorman-Jacobs
- # 170 The Fugs
- # 171 Mon Haiti. Guest Editor, Rene Sadot
- # 172 G.I. Songs of the Vietnam War (from the transcript of the Westmoreland vs. CBS Trial)
- # 173 Haymarket Centennial: 1886-1986
- # 174 Joady Guthrie
- # 175 Richard Farina & Tom Paxton
- # 176 Remembering Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick; Report from China
- # 177 Human Condition
- # 178 Billy Bragg
- # 179 The World that God Forgot
- # 180 A Day in the Life of Broadside
- # 181 Starting our 2nd Quarter Century, by Sis Cunningham, Founder of Broadside
- # 182 Songs by Si Kahn, Matt Jones, Bev Grant, etc.
- # 183 Songs by Tom McClelland, Betsy Rose, etc.
- # 184 Songs by Dave Lippman, Sammy Walker, Woody Guthrie, etc.
- # 185 Soup Kitchen. Includes an unpublished poem by Woody Guthrie .
- # 186 The Final Issue. Songs by Phil Ochs, Kristen Lems, Sis Cunningham, etc.