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 ...

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.

But where are today's protest songs? Jamie MacColl is the guitarist in Bombay Bicycle Club. Their music might not scream 'fervent political activism' but Jamie comes from a family deeply ingrained ...

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 ...

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.