Bruce Springsteen wrote and recorded ‘Streets of Minneapolis’ within days of Alex Pretti’s killing, continuing a long tradition of songs as protest against violence and repression.
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Where are all the protest songs?
Protest requires people to take a stand and hold firm. Pop songs are designed to appeal across demographic lines. In music, ...
During tough times, protest songs can bring us together and spur us to action ...
Clergy demonstrating against ICE in Minneapolis have turned to classic ‘freedom songs’ – the music associated with protests ...
Springsteen has repeatedly turned moments of violence and injustice into songs that demand moral reckoning ...
For a genre that confronts the horrors of the present, the protest song of 2026 is curiously backward-looking.
This time it’s personal. Bruce Springsteen seethes with righteous fury on his dramatic new protest song, Streets of ...
Which Side?: A Protest Music Teach-Out will return in the new year with an evening of music, story, and solidarity at the Burren Back Room on Tuesday, January 20. What began as an experiment in ...
The song in Morris’s head was “ Unsatisfied ,” a track from The Replacements’ 1984 album Let It Be. In his usual fashion, ...
Ten days ago, as he closed out the annual Light of Day festivities at Red Bank, New Jersey’s Count Basie Theater, Bruce Springsteen stepped up to the plate and bemoaned the troubling nature of ...
The "Which Side?: A Protest Music Teach-Out" series, a monthly gathering that combines protest music with conversation, returns at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 17, at The Burren Backroom, 247 Elm St. in ...
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