Despite what some may very foolishly claim, culture and politics do go hand in hand. Art in all its forms is a mirror held up to the world, reflecting the troubled times we live in. Music has seen its ...

2020 went from being a year of clamor stemming from COVID-19 to being a year of clamor stemming from social unrest. Social unrest, of course, has been a constant in American history since before ...

Dave Specter, Jason Narducy, Billy Branch and Melody Angel are among the nearly dozen music acts on the lineup for “Songs of ...

Protest songs, from “John Brown’s Body” to “Fight the Power,” have had a long and celebrated history of advocating for social change — and, in many cases, of uniting people behind important causes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In late January, Bruce Springsteen released "Streets of Minneapolis," memorializing Minnesota residents shot by Immigration and ...

Here are five protest songs from the 1970s that were controversial at the time of their release. The 1970s was a highly tumultuous decade defined by seasons of political unrest, social and cultural ...

B ob Dylan had a term for protest songs back when he was writing them. As deeply poetic as they are, he called them finger-pointing songs. “Masters of War” was the ultimate finger-pointing song.

Lucinda Williams is that rarest of music-industry stories: the ferociously talented cult figure who, eventually, gets to enjoy real-deal success in her own lifetime. Decades spent tirelessly honing ...

Protest songs had reached a boiling point in the 1960s. Many of the greatest political songs of all time can be found in that decade. But 1970s protest songs were nothing to sneeze at, and many of ...

Politics is the enemy of art. When art is conscripted into a cause, it risks shrinking into instruction. This is not a novel idea. Albert Camus warned that art pressed into ideological service ...

Where have all the protest songs gone? It’s a question that led to a gathering in Flossmoor, where performers, poets, artists and artisans came together for an emotionally charged evening of protest ...