Shared Vision
November 30, 2005
Vancouver—There’s no defensiveness in Raffi’s chortle as he merrily points out that The Simpsons also devoted an entire episode to a parody of him and his music. It’s not like he doesn’t have a sense of humour. But spend a few minutes with the children’s troubadour and you’ll soon get the message that Raffi is utterly immune to any force, even an iconic TV show, that would negate the importance of his music to his constituency of the very young. And that, laughs aside, he’s deadly serious about what he sees as a pervasive assault on their tiny psyches, bodies, and souls by a consumer culture gone mad.