Bruce Springsteen wrote and recorded ‘Streets of Minneapolis’ within days of Alex Pretti’s killing, continuing a long tradition of songs as protest against violence and repression.
For a genre that confronts the horrors of the present, the protest song of 2026 is curiously backward-looking.
Protest music has been around as long as protesting itself. Here we examine the power of the protest song, considering tracks ...
Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday, though much more celebratory in mood, was formally not so dissimilar from Kendrick Lamar’s last year: Each was dense with politico-cultural symbolism ...
Protest songs transform emotion into action, and Bruce Springsteen's anthem to Minneapolis is one in a long line of powerful ...
Springsteen has repeatedly turned moments of violence and injustice into songs that demand moral reckoning ...
His concert at Manchester’s Co-op Arena in May last year featured a lengthy onstage broadside against Donald Trump, and his long history of political activism and recording songs that speak truth to ...
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Where are all the protest songs?
Protest requires people to take a stand and hold firm. Pop songs are designed to appeal across demographic lines. In music, ...
Last week, Pittsboro singer-songwriter Joseph Terrell uploaded a new song to social media. Titled “Genuine American Hero,” the folk protest song is written in the style of John Prine or Phil Ochs and ...
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