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87The Best 10 Protest Songs
For as long as people have sung there have probably been songs of protest! There is something incredibly moving about a group singing with passion as any English football fan will tell you! Well this is...
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83Famous Songs With a Message
When I think about songs with a message I have to think back to the Vietnam War. There were many songs written in protest of the war. Some of them were good and some were rabble rousing for the express...
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64The Best 10 Protest Songs
3 artists just pops in my head when i think about protest anthems: Bob Dylan, Bob Marley and Marvin Gaye... But here are just a few of my top picks.... 1. Get up Stand up by Bob Marley 2. Minority by Green...
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66Tom Lehrer
In the earliest days of my life things in America were not as they are now. On our tiny black and white TV tube images of Joe McCarthy interrogating people as if they were convicted felons filled the day....
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69The Best 10 Protest Songs. Part 2
This is part two in my list of the greatest 10 protest songs. You can view part one here. It seems that the majority of my favourite protest songs are anti-war... This song was written by Woody Guthrie...
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63The Power of Song (The Pete Seeger Story)
The documentary, "The Power of Song," tells the story of the long and sometimes rocky road traveled by a remarkable American, Pete Seeger. For the pre-boomer generation it will bring back memories of the...
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61Folkmusic and culture
Recurring questions are: what is folkmusic? How does it differ from popular music or country music? Except among scholars, I’m not sure anyone asked such questions before the “folk music revival” in the...
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71Pete Seeger is 90 !
I can't make it to Madison Square Gardens on May 3rd 2009 but I will be there in spirit paying my tribute to this remarkable man. Artists who will be there with Pete include Bruce Springsteen, Eddie Vedder, Ben Harper and...
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70You Have To Be Taught To Hate And Fear
I was a child of the 60's and 70's - a big Bob Dillon fan; also Donovan, Cat Stevens and Joni Mitchell. OK, so I’m no longer a kid, but I live in the present and more importantly, I share the dreams of today's youth - that being, it's time for change. It's also time to resurrect some old tunes including one little known Rodgers & Hammerstein tune.
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62Audience Preferences On Various Websites
Until I began uploading original song videos to the Internet a few months ago, differences in audiences were not something to which I paid a lot of attention. The thought was: Write a great song that people...
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