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Podcast: Ongoing History of New Music
Episode: A Brief History of Protest Music: Part 1
Description: This can be a weird, difficult world, filled with injustice, inequality, and bad people doing bad things…we’re always up against things like racism, women’s rights, labour rights, the plights of marginalized people, class struggle, the disenfranchised, various social movements—the list of righteous causes and grievances is pretty much endless.
And sometimes, you just gotta fight back…but how?... Not all occasions called for armed insurrections and assassinations.
One way is through music…come up with something topical and specific, put it all to music, and you have a chance of getting your message...