Many American social movements have inspired protest songs spanning a variety of musical genres including but not limited to rap, folk, rock, and pop music. Though early 18th century songs stemmed ...

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 ...

This land is your land... Exercise your First Amendment rights with “Protest Songs,” the new weekend edition of the Consequence Crossword.

The exhibit aims to capture what life in Brunswick was like while national anti-war, women’s liberation and civil rights protests reverberated through the community and the town’s infrastructure, ...

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 ...

An Ottawa school played an Arabic-language Palestinian protest song associated with fighting in Gaza as the soundtrack to its Remembrance Day presentation, causing outrage and distress for some ...

This list is a starting point for exploration, not a deep dive into particularly fertile scenes like the British folk movement of the 60s or the ... anti-war protest song was co-written with ...

And they are known as the largest and most violent university demonstrations of the Vietnam War era. So during this period of two days at the university, there was a protest in which the Minnesota ...

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 ...

HONG KONG--An appeals court on Wednesday granted the Hong Kong government’s request to ban a popular protest song, overturning an earlier ruling and deepening concerns over the erosion of ...

If you've ever been to a protest, you know there ... so it was natural that 70s band The Police would feature on this list. Start with their song Don't Stand Too Close to Me as it encapsulates ...