The greatest songs about debate, protest, struggle and fighting the power: from John Lennon to The Doors, The Clash to Peter Gabriel.

CSNY’s 1971 protest song comes as a direct response to the four students who died at an anti-Vietnam War protest at Kent State University in 1970. The song not only commemorates the fallen but ...

Creedence Clearwater Revival was massively popular for their entire short run. They played Woodstock, dominated the charts, ...

Protest songs are of their nature tied to immediate context — be it a war, economic conditions, an unpopular government, or what have you. But pop music is, after all, itself largely ephemeral.

It’s interesting that a Vietnam War protest song has become one of the biggest Yuletide songs ever. It’s probably so ubiquitous that many people don’t bother to listen to its lyrics closely.

George W. Told The Nation: Tom Paxton's another contribution to the list of anti-war songs Tom Paxton’s ‘Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation’: The voice of protest in American folk music ‘Boom!’: ...

Facing the camera, Khlyvnyuk sang The Red Viburnum In The Meadow, a protest song written during the first world war, which has become a rallying cry in Ukraine over last six weeks. "It just struck ...