Music has always gone side by side with politics, with great protest songs inspiring and soothing when needed. Here are some ...
“Fortunate Son” by Creedence Clearwater Revival tends to get the same kind of treatment as Springsteen’s “Born In The U.S.A.”. This 1968 jam is often used as an American, good ol’ boy anthem of sorts.
Before he starts to sing, a bootleg recording catches his disclaimer, “This here ain't no protest song or anything like that, 'cause I don't write no protest songs.” A few months later ...
Campbell said that political music has existed as far back as the French Revolution, but mostly came into popularity in the '60s with protest songs about the Vietnam War. He was in college during this ...
So, we’ve ranked the 14 songs – one for each year of Conservative ... after witnessing police brutality break out at an anti-war protest in California, a day now known as “Bloody Thursday”.