Black lives don’t just matter—they’ve created the music we live by. This video celebrates the trailblazing contributions of Black musicians, from the protest songs of Nina Simone to the revolutionary ...
In an interview with Sharon den Adel from Within Temptation, she highlighted the responsibility of bands to make their voices ...
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Against protest songs
Protesting as an art form required first the democratization of political life in modern times ... as popular music overtook literature as a dominant medium, the protest genre followed suit.
Protest music is nothing new... the civil rights movement, Vietnam War and gay rights activism led to songs which showed solidarity or expressed the anger and pain of the artists involved.
Georgia Shackleton, of the Shackleton Trio, said some protest songs could be a "catalyst ... and mental health issues as well as covering songs by modern political songwriters such as Grace ...