Country Joe McDonald, whose late '60s group Country Joe and the Fish performed counterculture anthems at Woodstock, has died ...

“Country” Joe McDonald, the rocker who became a staple of protest music in the ‘60s, has died. He was 84. McDonald died ...

Why, in an era when music's biggest stars are more outspoken than ever, does it feel like we're still waiting for the contemporary political anthem?

With everything that’s going on in the world I've been thinking about the power behind people’s right to protest — and the equally powerful strength of a protest song. Music and protest go hand in ...

Peaceful protest is woven into the DNA of the United States, from the Boston Tea Party to the March on Washington. And music has always been one of its most powerful tools. Right now, as Minneapolis ...

This year, two arena-filling artists returned to the older civic function of song. Bruce Springsteen’s “Streets of Minneapolis” and U2’s elegiac “American Obituary,” written in response to immigration ...

Phil Ochs, Joan Baez, Nina Simone … none of them could have dreamed of a stage like this. Rows of field laborers hacking at sugar cane with machetes. Workers in harnesses dangling from power poles as ...

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