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 ...

Though Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” isn’t a protest song in the traditional sense, it still sees her fight for change by way of comforting her listeners. Gaga has long been an advocate for ...

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The '70s were defined ... from the late-'60s emergence of blues-powered electric rock. Bands that arrived in that era - such as Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin - helped shape the music in the new ...

She encouraged other artists to use their platforms to speak up. “In the end of the ’50s and ’60s and into the ’70s, everyone ...

A pensioner was arrested today during a demonstration outside a major military base as part of an organised worldwide day of protest against a possible war with Iraq. Angela Broome, 67 ...

The Miami Pop Festival in 1968 was touted as the first significant music festival on the East Coast. Organized by Michael ...

More than one million people have staged an anti-war protest in London, making it the UK's largest ever peace demonstration, organisers claimed. Hundreds of thousands of campaigners crammed into ...

Fearing the spread of Asian Communism, the U.S. increases the flow of aid, equipment, and "military advisors" during the early '60s-but still ... divided by the war. Peace protests swell in ...

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.

No, they are only against a war that the Jews win. The slogan heard at these protests ... into the early ’70s when this song was written. It is that spirit of the ’60s that seems to ...

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