Protest Songs Research

Protest Songs

-A protest song is one that is associated with a movement for social change and is connected to current events 
-Some topics that have a large pool of protest songs associated with them are feminism, gay rights, animal rights, vegetarianism and veganism, gun control and environmentalism

History
 -Protest songs are generally produced for persuasion or propaganda
-The tradition of using music in this manner goes back to the founding of America where Joseph Warren’s song ‘Free America’ was sung by American soldiers
-Protest songs began to properly develop into their own art form in the 1930s with the emergence of Electrical music. Billie Holiday’s song in 1939: ‘Strange Fruit’ demonstrated this
-In the 60s, the civil rights movement was dominating the media which inspired Sam Cooke’s ‘A Change Is Gonna Come’ which shows the struggles of African Americans in the 1960s
-During the 80s and 90s the amount of protest songs being produced died down however some prominent ones in the 80s include ‘Fuck Tha Police’ which focused on young black men in LA and ‘Testify’ which criticised George W Bush. The 90s held a short-lived movement of young feminists associated with punk-rock music which included ‘Rebel Girl’ by Bikini Kill

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  1. WealdMedia2020April 28, 2020 at 7:11 AM

    Some good information here. Make sure you consider more contemporary protest songs as well. Miss Cook :)

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