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title: "Panopticon’s Kentucky combined folk and black metal to take on the coal industry"
date: "2024-03-07T02:17-08:00"
tags: ["labor", "music", "black metal"]
description: "In 1976, filmmaker Barbara Kopple released Harlan County U.S.A., a documentary delving into Kentucky coal miners’ 1973 Brookside Strike against the Eastover Coal Company and its larger corporate owners. Critics largely regarded the film as an instant classic, with Kopple receiving an Oscar for Best Documentary…"
link: https://www.avclub.com/panopticon-s-kentucky-combined-folk-and-black-metal-to-1831155844
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