Former President Barack Obama reflects on gospel, protest music, and hip-hop in a 'Rolling Stone' essay about music in ...

What gives music the power to move people from witness to action? Sociologist Ronald Eyerman reflects on protest songs, political memory, collective identity, and the enduring role of artists from Joe ...

Steve Earle on America's proud history of protest songs by artists from Woody Guthrie to Neil Young to Bruce Springsteen and more.

Bob Dylan changed rock forever in 1965 with a groundbreaking protest anthem that still stands as his greatest song ever.

Protest songs had reached a boiling point in the 1960s. Many of the greatest political songs of all time can be found in that decade. But 1970s protest songs were nothing to sneeze at, and many of ...

This video explores how Rage Against the Machine reached the Christmas number one spot through a fan-driven campaign It examines how listeners organized to challenge the usual chart patterns dominated ...

The great Bette Midler is raising her voice in a new anti-Trump protest song, following in the legacy of American music legend Woody Guthrie. "You know I've been around a long time, but I have never ...

I guess we can start calling 2026 the year of the protest song, because another washed-up celebrity is back to fight the man. First, we had Bruce Springsteen regale us with some of the worst ...

Covering a nearly 20-year-old song, this band reinvented a political anthem through the power of rock, winning the adoration of a divided nation. "Black and White" was written in 1954 about the Brown ...

Greg Kot, former music critic for the Chicago Tribune and co-host of ‘Sound Opinions,’ joins John Williams to talk about the history of protest songs, where you can hear contemporary artists doing ...