Perhaps the most artistically successful of these, and a short-list candidate for ... has proclaimed Jimmy Cliff’s “Vietnam” ...

G ood protest songs amplify the voice of the oppressed and take up the pressing issues of their day. Throughout the 20th century, a diverse range of protest music led the way in calling out racist ...

Mat Ward's latest album, Take the Rad Pill, fuses future bass, drum and bass, punk, electronic dance music and politics for a different sound, writes Susan Price.

If you've ever been to a protest, you know there'll be singing; in Hong Kong, the anthems for pretty much all protests are Do You Hear the People Sing?, and local band Beyond’s Boundless Sea and ...

However, one crucial element was conspicuously absent: protest songs. The chants and slogans, while powerful, lacked the melodic reinforcement that has historically accompanied movements for ...

A project funded by the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council, has analysed protest songs from the 1600s to today, creating the first official database of English protest songs. Chris Martin ...

Even before the band, protest songs had always inhabited the soundscape of Calcutta with Salil Choudhury’s music and the Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA) songs. But it was the voice ...

HONG KONG--An appeals court on Wednesday granted the Hong Kong government’s request to ban a popular protest song, overturning an earlier ruling and deepening concerns over the erosion of ...

Macklemore has enlisted a handful of Palestinian artists and poets for the sequel to his pro-Palestine protest song, “Hind’s Hall.” “Hind’s Hall 2,” which arrived on Saturday ...

The lyrics of his song are similar to a Bangladeshi protest song called “Desh ta tomar baaper naki”, which translates to “'Does the country belong to your father?” A complaint against ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time ... Minchin admits his relationship with the song has changed due to his increasing discomfort about social media pile-ons and ...