Protest Songs
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Protest Music
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Protest Music
| Song Title | Year | Artist | Subject |
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| How Could a Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live? | 1929 | Blind Alfred Reed | Class Struggle |
| Which Side Are You On? | 1931 | Florence Reece | Labor Movement |
| Strange Fruit | 1939 | Billie Holiday | Racial Violence |
| The Rock Island Line | 1940 | Lead Belly | Labor Movement |
| This Land Is Your Land | 1940 | Woody Guthrie | Labor Movement/Civil Rights |
| Deportee (Plane Wreck At Lost Gatos) | 1948 | Woody Guthrie | Racial Justice |
| If I Had A Hammer | 1949 | Pete Seeger | Labor Movement/Civil Rights |
| Soldier Boy | 1961 | The Shirelles | Anti-War |
| If I Had a Hammer | 1962 | Peter, Paul And Mary | Civil Rights |
| Where Have All the Flowers Gone? | 1955 | Pete Seeger | Anti-War |
| Blowin' in the Wind | 1962 | Bob Dylan | Civil Rights/Peace |
| The Times They Are a-Changin' | 1963 | Bob Dylan | Social Change |
| Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues | 1963 | Bob Dylan | Anti-Persecution |
| Masters Of War | 1963 | Bob Dylan | Anti-War |
| We Shall Overcome | 1963 | Pete Seeger | Civil Rights |
| A Change Is Gonna Come | 1964 | Sam Cooke | Civil Rights |
| Universal Soldier | 1964 | Buffy Sainte-Marie | Anti-War |
| Keep On Pushing | 1964 | The Impressions | Civil Rights |
| Chimes Of Freedom | 1964 | Bob Dylan | Civil Rights |
| The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll | 1964 | Bob Dylan | Civil Rights |
| Mississippi Goddam | 1964 | Nina Simone | Civil Rights |
| The Ballad Of Ira Hayes | 1964 | Johnny Cash | Civil Rights |
| I Ain't Marching Anymore | 1965 | Phil Ochs | Anti-War |
| We Didn't Know At All | 1965 | Tom Paxton | Anti-War/Civil Rights |
| People Get Ready | 1965 | The Impressions | Civil Rights |
| (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction | 1965 | The Rolling Stones | Anti-Consumerism |
| Eve Of Destruction | 1965 | Barry McGuire | Anti-War/Social Change |
| In The Ghetto | 1965 | Elvis Presley | Social Change |
| My Generation | 1965 | The Who | Rebellion |
| For What It's Worth | 1966 | Buffalo Springfield | Social Change |
| The Ballad Of The Green Berets | 1966 | Barry Sadler | Anti-War |
| Respect | 1967 | Aretha Franklin | Civil Rights/Feminism |
| Backlash Blues | 1967 | Nina Simone | Racial Jusctice |
| I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free | 1967 | Nina Simone | Civil Rights |
| Ain't No Mountain High Enough | 1967 | Marvin Gaye | Civil Rights |
| Say It Loud I'm Black And I'm Proud | 1968 | James Brown | Racial Equality |
| Lennon/McCartney Revolution | 1968 | The Beatles | Anti-War |
| Sister Suffragette | 1968 | Mary Poppins | Feminism |
| Fortunate Son | 1969 | CCR | Anti-War |
| The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down | 1969 | The Band | American Civil War |
| Give Peace a Chance | 1969 | John Lennon | Anti-War |
| I Wanna Be Your Dog | 1969 | The Stooges | Rebellion |
| One Tin Soldier | 1969 | Coven | Anti-War |
| Gimme Shelter | 1969 | The Rolling Stones | Social Change |
| Mississippi | 1969 | John Hurt | Civil Rights |
| One Tin Soldier | 1969 | The Original Caste | Anti-War |
| The Fiddle And The Drum | 1969 | Joni Mitchell | Anti-War |
| Vietnam | 1969 | Jimmy Cliff | Anti-War |
| War | 1970 | Edwin Starr | Anti-War |
| War Pigs | 1970 | Black Sabbath | Anti-War |
| Working Class Hero | 1970 | John Lennon | Class Struggle |
| Changes | 1970 | Black Sabbath | Social Change |
| United We Stand | 1970 | Brotherhood Of Man | Anti-War |
| The Revolution Will Not Be Televised | 1970 | Gil Scott-Heron | Social Change |
| Ohio | 1970 | CSNY | Anti-Persecution |
| Peace Train | 1971 | Cat Stevens | Anti-War/Peace |
| Imagine | 1971 | John Lennon | Anti-War/Peace |
| What's Going On | 1971 | Marvin Gaye | Anti-War |
| I Am Woman | 1972 | Helen Reddy | Feminism |
| Funky Kingston | 1973 | Toots And The Maytals | Social Justice |
| Get Up Stand Up | 1973 | Bob Marley | Social Justice |
| Fight The Power | 1975 | The Isley Brothers | Anti-Authority/Racial Justice |
| Takin' It To The Streets | 1976 | The Doobie Brothers | |
| I Don't Like Mondays | 1979 | The Boomtown Rats | Gun Violence |
| Bring The Boys Back Home | 1979 | Pink Floyd | Anti-War |
| Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2) | 1979 | Pink Floyd | Social Change |
| London Calling | 1979 | The Clash | Political Protest |
| Redemption Song | 1980 | Bob Marley | Rebellion |
| Biko | 1980 | Peter Gabriel | Apartheid |
| The River | 1980 | Bruce Springsteen | Class Struggle |
| Holiday In Cambodia | 1980 | The Dead Kennedys | Political Protest |
| The Message | 1982 | Grandmaster Flash | Inequality |
| Rock The Casbah | 1982 | The Clash | Censorship |
| 99 Red Balloons | 1983 | Nena | Social Change/Cold War |
| Born In The U.S.A. | 1984 | Bruce Springsteen | Vietnam |
| Pride (In the Name of Love) | 1984 | U2 | Civil Rights |
| Two Tribes | 1984 | Frankie Goes To Hollywood | Anti-War |
| We're Not Gonna Take It | 1984 | Twisted Sister | Anti-Authority |
| Between The Wars | 1985 | Billy Bragg | Anti-War |
| Meat Is Murder | 1985 | The Smiths | Animal Cruelty |
| Wasted Years | 1986 | Iron Maiden | |
| Fight Like A Brave | 1987 | RHCP | Drug Abuse |
| Bullet The Blue Sky | 1987 | U2 | Anti-War |
| Beds Are Burning | 1987 | Midnight Oil | |
| Copperhead Road | 1988 | Steve Earle | Political Protest |
| Fuck Tha Police | 1988 | N.W.A | Anti-Authority |
| Fight The Power | 1989 | Public Enemy | Anti-Authority/Racial Justice |
| Keep On Rockin' In The Free World | 1989 | Neil Young | Social Justice |
| I Won't Back Down | 1989 | Tom Petty | Civil Rights |
| Black Boys On Mopeds | 1990 | Sinead O'Connor | |
| Freedom! '90 | 1990 | George Michael | Social Justice |
| Wind Of Change | 1990 | Scorpions | Social Change/Cold War |
| Black Or White | 1991 | Michael Jackson | Racial Equality |
| One | 1991 | U2 | Anti-War |
| Tennessee | 1992 | Arrested Development | Social Change |
| Killing In The Name | 1992 | RATM | Racism/Policing |
| Zombie | 1994 | The Cranberries | Anti-War |
| Common People | 1995 | Pulp | Class Struggle |
| Gangsta's Paradise | 1995 | Coolio | Social Justice |
| Ghost Of Tom Joad, The | 1995 | Bruce Springsteen | Labor Movement/Civil Rights |
| Just A Girl | 1995 | No Doubt | Gender Equality |
| They Don't Care About Us | 1996 | Michael Jackson | Social Justice |
| Bulls on Parade | 1996 | RATM | Anti-Consumerism |
| If You Tolerate This | 1998 | Manic Street Preachers | Political Protest |
| Gorilla Radio | 1999 | RATM | Political Protest |
| Spawn (Again) | 1999 | Silverchair | Animal Cruelty |
| American Skin (41 Shots) | 2001 | Bruce Springsteen | Police Violence |
| No More War | 2001 | KRS-One | Anti-War |
| Toxicity | 2001 | SOAD | Social Change |
| American Idiot | 2004 | Green Day | Political Protest |
| B.Y.O.B | 2005 | System Of A Down | Anti-War |
| I Am Not My Hair | 2005 | India Arie | Social Justice |
| Waiting On The World To Change | 2006 | John Mayer | Political Protest |
| Crisis | 2006 | The Sound | Political Protest |
| War Is Kind | 2008 | Jakob Dylan | Political Protest |
| Uprising | 2009 | Muse | Political Protest |
| Help Is On The Way | 2011 | Rise Against | Political Protest |
| Weather Wall | 2012 | Brilliantfish | Evironmental Collapse |
| Take Me to Church | 2013 | Hozier | Anti-Religion |
| Take Back The Power | 2014 | The Interrupters | Political Protest |
| I Can't Breathe | 2014 | The Knowledge | Racial Violence |
| Black Lives Matter | 2015 | The Knowledge | Racial Violence |
| Rise Up | 2015 | Andra Day | Political Protest |
| Black Man In A White World | 2016 | Michael Kiwanuka | Racial Justice |
| No Justice, No Peace | 2017 | The L.A. Punk Band | |
| Comply/Resist | 2017 | Propagandhi | Anti-Authority |
| Police State | 2017 | Pussy Riot | Political Protest |
| What About Us | 2017 | Pink | Political Protest |
| This Is America | 2018 | Childish Gambino | Racial Violence |
| March To The Docks | 2019 | The Lilac Time | Class Struggle |
| JU$T | 2020 | Run The Jewels | Racial Justice |
| Can't Go On This Way | 2022 | Van Morrison | Anti-Authority |
| This Is Your Time | 2022 | Derek Christie | Anti-War |
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