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As the envelope continues to be pushed by modern day art, it is important that we open up our definitions and conditions as to what is and what is not. The correlation between civil rights protest and modern-day protest/demonstrations by artist through their creative mediums is apparent by the likeness of the result of the two.

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This type of demonstration does exactly what RM analyst would suggest is done and needs to be done by collective protest; draw the attention of the people and disrupt the pattern of silent compliance.

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Childish Gambino - This Is America (Official Video)

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Less than three months ago, artist Donald Glover released a new single accompanied by a music video that to this day still has people talking. Musically analyst of Time magazine says that the single-take video is “laden with metaphors about race and gun violence in America”. From death looming in the background of the video being covered up by catchy beats and popular dances to Glover gunning down a church choir mid video the release sparked many conversations and much controversy.

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This false categorizing makes it easy to criminalize and demonize the actions of a collective protest. However, the actions are not meant to be criminal, but are meant to be eye-opening.

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Protest are meant to stick out so that catch attention, but this cannot be done if the actions are thrown under the category of everyday living.

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Resource mobilization analyst insist that the normalization of collective protest is flawed and the reality that highlighting social issues is an absolute necessity

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As stated by the concept of artist expression, it is paramount that artist not only express themselves but depict the times that they live/lived in.

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If we cannot come to a definite agreement as to the subject matter, as stated in 1A, it makes it much easier for us to discredit a type of artist we do not directly subscribe to.

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Contributor to The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music, Andrew Kania, points out what I consider to be one of the most important takeaways from my research; Defining what is and is not considered music is no easy task.

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Fans of artist are effected the same way people were effected by activist of the civil rights movement

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Highlighting social issues is necessary for any kind of protest.

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As difficult as it is to nail down a concrete definition of music, it is equally difficult defining who is an "artist"

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I am researching the correlation between civil rights protest and modern-day protest/demonstrations by artist through their creative mediums to find out to what degree the two are related so that my readers can have a better understanding of why it's important that artist not only stand for something but accurately reflect the times they live in.