Protest songs are of their nature tied to immediate ... Everyone by now knows the boomer litany, predominantly associated with the 1960s, and one can aurally anticipate them when the relevant ...

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings playlists, Sounds of the Civil Rights Movement and Peace Songs of the 1960s, reveal the vibrancy of the genre.

Peter, Paul and Mary quickly emerged as the winning 1960s iteration of a clean-cut, meticulously arranged supper-club and ...

“The lyrics express a similar longing and hopefulness, a dream that must have felt near-impossible during the darkest days of the early 1960s,” Jeremy Helligar wrote. Bob Dylan’s protest ...

Before he starts to sing, a bootleg recording catches his disclaimer, “This here ain't no protest song or anything like that, 'cause I don't write no protest songs.” A few months later ...

Kenya's leadership, at different epochs of our existence as an independent state, has not been spared from music of protest. During the leadership of Jomo Kenyatta in the 1960s and '70s ...