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

An Ottawa school played an Arabic-language Palestinian protest song associated with fighting in Gaza as the soundtrack to its ...

Protest songs are of their nature tied to immediate context — be it a war, economic conditions, an unpopular government, or what have you. But pop music is, after all, itself largely ephemeral.

Nina Simone thought John Lennon's politics was weak. So when The Beatles released their cry for political and social change, ...

It includes Royalist songs from the English Civil War as well as modern songs such ... University of East Anglia Asked about the impact of protest songs, Bragg said: "It can change some things ...

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.

Facing the camera, Khlyvnyuk sang The Red Viburnum In The Meadow, a protest song written during the first world war, which has become a rallying cry in Ukraine over last six weeks. "It just struck ...

Acclaimed novelist Haruki Murakami hosted a special radio show by playing a selection of his favorite antiwar songs to protest Russia ... his “Music to halt the war” show.