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 ...

“Eve Of Destruction” is a folk rock protest song that was originally written ... The Rooftop Singers’ version was a pretty big hit in the 1960s. It spent several weeks at no.

‘The Times They Are A-Changin’ by Bob Dylan (1964) Flicking back to the 1960s, Bob Dylan’s song ... one of the most influential hip-hop protest songs. It was conceived after director ...

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

Folk music also played an influential role in environmental political efforts and anti-war protests during the United States' engagement in Vietnam. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings playlists, Sounds ...

I don’t even know if it’s a protest song, it’s a song about the black ... as an old man of the early 1960s when we all thought we were under the cloud of nuclear war and Vietnam, the anger ...

So, I got a strong range of picks from some truly incredible musicians. Here is the thing, sadly, great protest songs never go out of style. Unfortunately, Bob Dylan’s “Masters of War ...

John Lennon loved making songs thematically substantial in the latter half of The Beatles. He said he wrote one madcap ...