As the civil rights movement gained momentum in the 1960s, folk music gave voice to a new generation longing for equality and justice. "We Shall Overcome" is particularly well-known as a civil rights ...

Protest songs have been a staple throughout music history. Below, find four female protest songs that have stood the test of time.

Protest songs are of their nature tied to immediate ... Everyone by now knows the boomer litany, predominantly associated with the 1960s, and one can aurally anticipate them when the relevant ...

Ever since the '60s, Joan Baez has delivered a message with her music, but she was never going to be a two-chord folkie with ...

Protest music is nothing new ... as an old man of the early 1960s when we all thought we were under the cloud of nuclear war and Vietnam, the anger and the fury of this just changed my life." ...

In the early 1960s, when I reached my teenage years, Bob Dylan (aka Robert Zimmerman) was the leader of the protest movement ...

An early interest in music saw her learning ukulele as a child ... If you are new to Joan Baez or the 1960s protest movement guitarists in general, it’s well worth checking out these acoustic ...