Protest Music Hall Of Fame 2023 Poll

One of the objectives of this site is to create an online archive of artists, albums, and songs that have made significant contributions to the canon of protest music. With that in mind, back in 2018, I decided to create an online Protest Music Hall of Fame. I invited website visitors to fill out a Google doc to nominate their picks, […]

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Podcast: Protest Music Hall of Fame 2020 Inductees Part 2: The Albums and Songs

The Protest Music Hall of Fame is an online archival project to draw attention to the artists, songs, and albums that have made considerable contributions to the historical development of protest music. Part two will focus on the albums and songs inducted. This is an extended Spotify version that features a song off the inducted album and all of the […]

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Podcast: Protest Music Hall of Fame 2020 Inductees Part 1: The Artists

The Protest Music Hall of Fame is an online archival project to draw attention to the artists, songs, and albums that have made considerable contributions to the historical development of protest music. Part one will focus on the artists inducted. This is an extended Spotify version that features songs from the artists discussed. The episode was originally published on December […]

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Ongoing History of Protest Music Episode 18: Updates

This is a brief episode that discusses a couple of updates in connection with the website and podcast. I discuss the recently launched Patreon and remind listeners about the 2020 Protest Hall of Fame Nomination Poll. The episode opens up with the track “Beepocalypse” by experimental musical duo Grex, off their latest album Everything You Said Was Wrong. Karl Evangelista of the duo […]

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Ongoing History of Protest Music Podcast Episode 16: Protest Music Hall of Fame

This episode discusses the Protest Music Hall of Fame, an online archival project which chronicles the artists, albums, and songs which have contributed to the historical development of protest music. We also review the current inductees and discuss the recently posted nomination poll for 2020.  On the podcast, we play Bartees Strange’s cover of Woody Guthrie’s “Tear These Fascists Down”, and […]

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Protest Music Hall Of Fame 2020 Poll

One of the objectives of this site is to create an online archive of artists, albums, and songs that have made significant contributions to the canon of protest music. With that in mind, back in 2018, I decided I create an online Protest Music Hall of Fame. It is now time to start the nominating process for 2020. The results […]

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2019 Protest Music Hall of Fame Nominee Poll

One of this site’s objective is to create a digital archive of artists and recordings that have made a significant contribution to the canon of socially conscious music. With that in mind, last year I created an online Protest Music Hall of Fame as an archival project. A couple months ago I posted a poll to begin the nominating process […]

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Protest Music Hall Of Fame 2019 Poll

One of the goals of this site is to create an online archive of artists, albums and songs that have notably contributed to the canon of protest songs. With that goal in mind, last year I decided I create an online Protest Music Hall of Fame. It is now time to start the nominating process for 2019. The results of […]

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