Daily Dose of Protest – The Ongoing History of Protest Music

Daily Dose of Protest: Georgia English – Who

Georgia English is a Nashville-based singer-songwriter who recently released the poignant album Pain and Album. This collection of tunes could be considered a musical journal that chronicles English's experiences of…

CJ Baker August 18, 2021

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Daily Dose of Protest: This Trip – Petra Glynt

Petra Glynt is a Canadian experimental indie pop artist. The political intent of her music can be discerned from one glance of the cover of her 2017 album, This Trip.…

CJ Baker January 8, 2018

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Daily Dose of Protest: Little Bit – Mavis Staples

Mavis Staples 2017 album, If All I Was Was Black was one of the Top 25 Protest Albums of 2017. One of the album tracks, "Who Told You That" was…

CJ Baker January 4, 2018

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Daily Dose of Protest: Pay Gap – Margo Price

Margo Price's 2017 album All American Made was one of The Top 25 Protest Album of 2017. The title track of that album was also one of the Top 50…

CJ Baker January 3, 2018

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Daily Dose of Protest: Happy New Year (Prince Can’t Die Again) – Mac McCaughan

This little ditty was recorded towards the end of 2016 and the premise was fairly self-explanatory. Regardless of how bad things will get, on the bright side at least Prince…

CJ Baker January 1, 2018

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Daily Dose of Protest: The Body Electric – Hurray For the Riff Raff

Hurray For the Riff Raff's 2017 album, Navigator was the number one album on the list of Top 25 Protest Albums of 2017. Today I decided to focus on a…

CJ Baker December 29, 2017

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Daily Dose of Protest: Today in Charlottesville – David Rovics

On December 20th, 2017, a street in Charlottesville, Virginia, was renamed after Heather Heyer. Heyer was killed on August 12th, 2017 when white supremacist, James Alex Fields Jr. drove into a group of…

CJ Baker December 28, 2017

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Daily Dose of Protest: New World Order – Curtis Mayfield

Curtis Mayfield died on December 26, 1999. With The Impressions and his solo work, he established himself as one of the most influential artists in the history of socially conscious…

CJ Baker December 26, 2017

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Daily Dose of Protest: A Christmas Fucking Miracle – Run The Jewels

This is not your typical festive Christmas tune. Even though the video is somewhat comical, the lyrics are politically hard-hitting. The song addresses corruption, poverty and racism ("Still spell AmeriKKKa…

CJ Baker December 25, 2017

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Daily Dose of Protest: Mother – Amanda Palmer & Jherek Bischoff

"Mother" is a cover of a Pink Floyd song which appeared on their classic 1979 album, The Wall. Lyrics such as “Mother, should I build the wall?/Mother, should I run…

CJ Baker December 24, 2017