20 Facts About Protest song

Protest song is a song that is associated with a movement for social change and hence part of the broader category of topical songs.

Ludwig van Beethoven's "Ode to Joy", a Protest song in support of universal brotherhood, is a Protest song of this kind.

Music, and Protest song, we suggest, can maintain a movement even when it no longer has a visible presence in the form of organizations, leaders, and demonstrations, and can be a vital force in preparing the emergence of a new movement.

Protest song music was a big feature of plays organized by the Indian People's Theatre Association.

The Protest song was recorded and distributed on cassette tapes, reaching millions of Burmese eventually becoming an anthem of the 8888 Uprising.

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Korean protest song called Minjung-Gayo reflects the will of crowd and voices of criticism of the day.

Korean protest song has emerged on 1980s, especially before and after of the June Democracy Movement in 1987.

Protest song formed a group named 'Dobidoo' when he was in Seoul University and started writing music.

Lloyd claimed that "The Cutty Wren" song constituted a coded anthem against feudal oppression and actually dated back to the English peasants' revolt of 1381, making it the oldest extant European protest song.

Protest song offered no evidence for his assertion, however and no trace of the song has been found before the 18th century.

The Protest song was sung by over half a million demonstrators in Washington, DC, at the second Vietnam Moratorium Day, on October 15,1969.

The video for the Protest song depicted a wrestling match between then-President Ronald Reagan and then-Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko for the benefit of group members and an eagerly belligerent assembly of representatives from the world's nations, the event ultimately degenerating into complete global destruction.

The Protest song faced an all-out ban in the UK, and has never been re-released or appeared on any Paul McCartney or Wings best-ofs.

In no other Protest song is this more noted that the ballad "Trova do Vento que Passa", whose lyrics by the writer Manuel Alegre were a direct criticism of the state.

Protest song recorded a musical version of the Jonasz Kofta's poem "Pamietajcie o ogrodach", protesting against the industrialism of life promoted by the communist propaganda.

Song "Parisien Du Nord" by Cheb Mami is a recent example of how the genre has been used as a form of protest, as the song was written as a protest against the racial tensions that sparked the 2005 French riots.

Protest song teamed up in the 1960s with composer Sheikh Imam Eissa who gave music to his verses, the partnership lasting for twenty years.

Later on that year, a different point of view of the Protest song was introduced by the folk singer Meir Ariel, who recorded an anti-war version and named it "Jerusalem of Iron".

The Protest song signifies the ultimate rightness of those steadfast in their beliefs, suggesting the rightness of Gush Emunim's struggle against anti-settlement policy by the government.

Botha of the apartheid regime – is turned into "Sit dit aan" [Switch it on] by Koos Kombuis, now a song protesting mismanagement resulting in chronic power failures.