Music has always been more than entertainment. It's a rallying cry, a shared heartbeat in moments when words alone fall short ...

Black power music functions as cultural documentation and motivational fuel through its evolution from Civil Rights-era declarations to contemporary hip-hop protest lines ...

Protest music has been around as long as protesting itself. Here we examine the power of the protest song, considering tracks ...

I’d come to watch precisely because no one of Roan’s stature had been slated to play what have been, to date, the American ...

For a genre that confronts the horrors of the present, the protest song of 2026 is curiously backward-looking.

"A White Jewish producer, and the greatest Black jazz singer of all-time, and an all-Black band, working together to produce ...

Which Side?: A Protest Music Teach-Out returns with another powerful night of music, storytelling, and solidarity on Tuesday, February 17, 2026, at The Burren Backroom. What began as an experiment in ...

We trace the lineage of rapid-response songs, from Woody Guthrie and Nina Simone to Bruce Springsteen's quick turnaround on "Streets of Minneapolis" ...

Venezuela has a deep tradition of reflecting political change through music. This week, as the country reels from the seizure of its president by... Alt.Latino: Music as protest in Venezuela Venezuela ...

The event also revealed that Springsteen shared some of my initial hesitations about “Streets of Minneapolis.” He said that before releasing it, he’d sent it to Tom Morello, the former Rage Against ...