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May 16, 2019 · Music is a powerful tool that many singers, songwriters, organizers, and activists have used as a means of protest. From Woody Guthrie to Nina Simone and Dan Bern to Ani DiFranco, American history is filled with incredible activist musicians.
Oct 21, 2014 · The legendary folk singer Pete Seeger left behind a powerful legacy of political music. But who nowadays is left to continue the tradition? Greg Kot takes a look.
- Billie Holiday, “Strange Fruit” This track has to be at the top of the list; it’s that influential. One of the first racism protest songs to be recorded in popular music, 1939’s “Strange Fruit” is based off a poem written by Abel Meeropol.
- Woody Guthrie, “This Land Is Your Land” One of the most iconic songs in American lore, “This Land Is Your Land” is actually such an important protest song for the verses that aren’t typically sung.
- “We Shall Overcome,” Pete Seeger. Written as a gospel hymn by a Methodist minister in 1900 and originally adapted during a tobacco workers strike in 1945, “We Shall Overcome” came to represent defiance, endurance, tenacity and sheer determination.
- Bob Dylan, “Blowin’ in the Wind” The tune that endeared Dylan to legions of card-carrying folkies, “Blowin’ in the Wind” remains the standard template for every protest song that’s come along ever since.
Oct 25, 2022 · As FolkWorks has demonstrated for years now, thanks to the internet, we are able to tune in to some wonderful new political folk albums by giant talents, such as Ernest Troost (Saving the Republic) and Pat Wictor (Flare). And we all have access to protest music around the globe. But there’s more!
Find Political Folk Albums, Artists and Songs, and Hand-Picked Top Political Folk Music on AllMusic.
Jan 25, 2020 · For centuries, music has been used to make political points. Modern protest music got its start in the early part of the 20th century, when marchers on labor’s picket lines needed something...
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Political Folk follows in the footsteps of the legendary Woody Guthrie, whose highly polemical folk songs inspired a generation of tough-minded, activist singer/songwriters including Bob Dylan and Phil Ochs; simply, protest music follows the aesthetic traditions of folk, but with lyrics which take a definite, usually left-wing, political stance.
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