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Article: The rocker and the teacher.(historian Howard Zinn interviews Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder)(Interview)
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- March 1, 1999
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While Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder and historian Howard Zinn may lead very different lives, their conversation here shows there's no greater bridge than a desire to shake up the status quo
Eddie Vedder, a rock star whose band's breakthrough video (Pearl Jam's "Jeremy," 1992) showed a student erupting from his desk, has never taken a political science class. Howard Zinn, a retired professor and author of the landmark new-history text A People's History of the United States (Harper Collins, 1980), had never before been to anything like the Pearl Jam concert he saw last summer. But the media-critical academic was the interviewer of choice for the media-wary ...