Music has always gone side by side with politics, with great protest songs inspiring and soothing when needed. Here are some ...

In a career that now approaches its 65th year, he has scarcely written a protest song for 60 of them. Indeed, as early as 1964, he had already recorded “My Back Pages,” which is widely ...

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 ...