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A protest song is a song that is associated with a movement for protest and social change and hence part of the broader category of topical songs. It may be folk, classical, or commercial in genre.
Bob Dylan songs such as "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'" became anthems for the civil rights and anti-war movements in the 1960s.
Billie Holiday’s haunting rendition of "Strange Fruit" powerfully protested violence, making it a "rhetorical" protest song of political and social systems of her time.
Mona Borzouei co-wrote "Woman's Anthem", a key protest song during the 2022 Mahsa Amini protests, highlighting women's struggles in Iran.
Jews singing Hebrew protest songs when Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke at Columbia University in 2007
Protest songs in the United States are a tradition that date back to the early 18th century and have persisted and evolved as an aspect of American culture through the present day. Many American socia
Protest song
…performed in Chile to protest rape culture and victim shaming. Videos of the song and its accompanying dance went viral, spreading across the world. Protest songs in the United States Civil Rights anthem…
Woody Guthrie, an American singer-songwriter and folk musician well known for his protest songs.
Joe Hill, one of the pioneering protest singers of the early 20th century
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom leaders marching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial, August 28, 1963.
Bob Dylan with Joan Baez during the March on Washington in Washington, D.C., 1963