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15 Motown Protest Songs
Stevie Wonder, by Thomas Hawk via Flickr “The Sound of Young America” That was the slogan of Motown Records, which especially in the 60s and 70s was a cultural force.…
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Protest Music Hall of Fame: What’s Going On (Album) – Marvin Gaye
Publicity photo, photographer Jim Britt, Public Domain Released on May 21, 1971, Marvin Gaye's 11th studio album, What’s Going On, is one of the most important albums ever released. The…
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18 Protest Songs About Climate Change
Source: Markus Spiske | Pexels One of the objectives of this website is to document music's link to different protest movements. Music often mirrors what is happening in the world, so…
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Protest Music Hall of Fame: What’s Going On (Song) – Marvin Gaye
Publicity photo, photographer Jim Britt, Public Domain One of the most important protest tunes of all time, the genesis of "What Going On" happened when Four Tops vocalist Renaldo “Obie”…
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7 Cover Versions Of Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On
Publicity photo, photographer Jim Britt, Public Domain Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" is one of the most important songs of all time, so it should be no surprise that there…
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Protest Music Hall of Fame 2019 Inductees
Bikini Kill, Artist's Bandcamp The final results are in and we now have the list of inductees into the second year of the Protest Music Hall of Fame. I will…
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Daily Dose of Protest: What’s Going On – Amos Lee
Singer-songwriter Amos Lee just released a deluxe version of his recent album My New Moon. The deluxe edition features seven new tracks including a strip down acoustic reworking of Marvin…
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80 Years of Protest Songs Part 2: 1959-1978
80 Years of Protest Songs Part 1: 1939-1958 80 Years of Protest Songs Part 3: 1979-1998 80 Years of Protest Songs Part 4: 1999-2018 The 1960s ushered in what is…