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I suppose this series is going to be about songs that turned into protest songs rather than actual protest songs. The one on the podcast was used in a protest in Hong Kong but, had been around since 2007.

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#24

Yeah, the idea I had was for songs that became the focal point of a movement or represented a movement in some way or became the binding force conceptualising and actualising a mood or feeling or otherwise brought a message from one place to another to ignite solidarity, support and action

#25

big fan of old anti-recruiting folk songs

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#26

So like the Pop Smoke track that was used during the BLM protests in summer?

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#28

for example, yeah

Wanted to trace a whole history of protest in song from folk music to the present day

#29

Feels like the most obvious recent example:

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#30

In the OP

But it raises an interesting classification; songs of hope in the face of oppression

of which ‘Change is gonna come’ is also one

#31

Came here to post this. Is Fields Of Athenry a protest song? Lyrically obv it’s about the famine but it’s been used in a protest sense I guess.

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#32

Ah, that will be why no-one else mentioned it then. Oops.

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#34

Of course! How could I forget this?! Sublime song

#35

This from Bob Mould last year - in fact most of the songs on the album are protest songs.

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#36

Surprised no one has mentioned this yet

or this

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#38

Brilliant song about this:

Massacre of Puerto Montt - Wikipedia.

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#39

good song, but not quite in the mould I’m looking for

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#40

Buffy Sainte-Marie. So many songs to choose from but this is one of her better known protest songs

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