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, ...
The New YorkerOpinion

What Do We Want from a Protest Song?

For a genre that confronts the horrors of the present, the protest song of 2026 is curiously backward-looking.
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How historic protest music, including old Bible hymns, has inspired anti-ICE resistance in Minnesota

Some of protest music’s power has to do with singing itself. Making music in a group creates a tangible sense of community ...

Bruce Springsteen’s Song About Minneapolis Follows a Long Tradition of Protest Songs—Here Are the 10 Most Powerful

Protest songs transform emotion into action, and Bruce Springsteen's anthem to Minneapolis is one in a long line of powerful ...
BroadwayWorld

WHICH SIDE?: A Protest Music Teach-Out Continues This February at the Burren Backroom in Somerville

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 ...
The New York Times

How a Pro-Greenland Song Became a Protest Anthem

Locals are speaking out against President Trump’s gestures toward annexing the territory, and the song “Greenland Belongs to Greenlanders” has become “a soundtrack of the movement.” By Lisa Abend ...
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Lucinda Williams gives new voice to protest music on 'World's Gone Wrong'

Singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams tapped into America's current period of struggle on her latest album, a collection of protest songs called... Lucinda Williams gives new voice to protest music on ...
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Lucinda Williams gives new voice to protest music on 'World's Gone Wrong'

Singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams has always had a dark edge to her stories, but her new music seems darker. You can clearly see the evolution in the titles of two of her albums released decades ...