Protest Music by Rolando Daniel Acosta Avila https://padlet.com/acostard96/t39iakcwrh85 12 Songs of Protest Music en-us 2017-03-17 00:44:13 UTC 2017-03-28 00:05:21 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Shakinghands.png Frijolero alonaug_9308 https://padlet.com/acostard96/t39iakcwrh85/wish/160684365 Molotov
2003
Alternative Rock

In this song, the Mexican group talks about the racism and the discrimination that Mexicans get from Americans; they not only mention this when talking about Mexicans in their land, but alzo about immigrants in the United States, claiming that them getting there illegally doesn't mean they have the right to treat them wrongly, seeing as they are the ones doing the hard work in the American land.]]> 2017-03-17 00:50:37 UTC https://padlet.com/acostard96/t39iakcwrh85/wish/160684365 They Don't Care About Us valeria_pescador https://padlet.com/acostard96/t39iakcwrh85/wish/160684394 Michael Jackson
1995
Pop

This song was made to invite people to protest and fight the system, Michael personally was fighting the music industry, yet he made it as an anthem for people not to be repressed.]]> 2017-03-17 00:50:53 UTC https://padlet.com/acostard96/t39iakcwrh85/wish/160684394 Imagine acostard96 https://padlet.com/acostard96/t39iakcwrh85/wish/160684418 John Lennon
1971
Soft Rock - Pop

The song concerns how positive thinking can make political change - if you imagine a new world, you can help achieve it. ]]> 2017-03-17 00:51:12 UTC https://padlet.com/acostard96/t39iakcwrh85/wish/160684418 Hit me sofiaaluna13 https://padlet.com/acostard96/t39iakcwrh85/wish/160684718 Molotov
2003
Alternative rock

It’s a song composed by the mexican group “Molotov”, was released in 2003. 
This song express the nonconformity against the mexican government. 
]]> 2017-03-17 00:55:03 UTC https://padlet.com/acostard96/t39iakcwrh85/wish/160684718 I Give You Power valeria_pescador https://padlet.com/acostard96/t39iakcwrh85/wish/160684734 Arcade Fire
2017
Alternative

Posted on the eve of Donald Trump's inauguration as the 45th President Of The United States Of America, the Canadian band tagged their supposedly anti-Trump diatribe by saying: "It's never been more important that we stick together & take care of each other."]]> 2017-03-17 00:55:14 UTC https://padlet.com/acostard96/t39iakcwrh85/wish/160684734 Forever Young acostard96 https://padlet.com/acostard96/t39iakcwrh85/wish/160684829 Alphaville
1971
Synth Pop - New Wave

On the surface, this is a hopeful song celebrating the virtues of youth, but a closer listen reveals a fear of aging and death. The song was written during the Cold War, where the singer is "hoping for the best, but expecting the worst; are you gonna drop the bomb or not?"]]> 2017-03-17 00:56:27 UTC https://padlet.com/acostard96/t39iakcwrh85/wish/160684829 Spotify Playlist valeria_pescador https://padlet.com/acostard96/t39iakcwrh85/wish/160684989 2017-03-17 00:58:28 UTC https://padlet.com/acostard96/t39iakcwrh85/wish/160684989 A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall valeria_pescador https://padlet.com/acostard96/t39iakcwrh85/wish/160816697 Bob Dylan
1963
Acoustic

This classic protest song sums up the tensions of post-war America. It was written just before the Cuban Missle Crisis of 1962, in which the US and USSR faced each other off, with a very real threat of nuclear war hanging over the world. While Dylan was keen to stress that the "hard rain" wasn't nuclear fall-out, he acknowledged that the song was apocalyptic in tone.

]]> 2017-03-17 14:53:29 UTC https://padlet.com/acostard96/t39iakcwrh85/wish/160816697 Killing In The Name valeria_pescador https://padlet.com/acostard96/t39iakcwrh85/wish/160831837 Rage Against The Machine
1991
Alternative Metal

Rodney King was savagely beaten by members of the Los Angeles police in March 1991, and the whole incident was caught on camera. The subsequent acquittal of the officers in question on 29 April 1992 caused many to accuse the LAPD of institutionalised racism and sparked the worst riots in the US since the 1960s. Rage Against The Machine's classic track was released in November that year and compares such racism to the notorious cross-burning activities of the Ku Klux Klan.

]]> 2017-03-17 15:44:31 UTC https://padlet.com/acostard96/t39iakcwrh85/wish/160831837 (Sing If You're) Glad To Be Gay valeria_pescador https://padlet.com/acostard96/t39iakcwrh85/wish/160832899 Tom Robinson
1978
Rock

Hard to believe, but homosexuality was only decriminalised in 1967 - however, even ten years later, gay culture was still a target for abuse, violence and even police victimisation. Now better known as a broadcaster, Robinson’s song was direct, confrontational and heartfelt. The BBC refused to play it on the Top 40 countdown, but it became the defining anthem of gay liberation in Britain.]]> 2017-03-17 15:48:53 UTC https://padlet.com/acostard96/t39iakcwrh85/wish/160832899 Get Up, Stand Up valeria_pescador https://padlet.com/acostard96/t39iakcwrh85/wish/160847590 Bob Marley & The Wailers
1973
Reggae

“You can fool some people sometimes / But you can't fool all the people all the time.” Written by Marley and fellow Wailer Peter Tosh and released on their 1973 album Burnin’. It was inspired by Marley touring the Caribbean island of Haiti and being alarmed by the poverty of the people there. It would be the last song that Marley performed live onstage before his untimely death in 1981, aged 36.]]> 2017-03-17 16:48:55 UTC https://padlet.com/acostard96/t39iakcwrh85/wish/160847590 Revolution sofiaaluna13 https://padlet.com/acostard96/t39iakcwrh85/wish/160971049 The Beatles
1968
Rock

This was the first overtly political Beatles song. It was John Lennon's response to the Vietnam War.]]> 2017-03-19 07:38:06 UTC https://padlet.com/acostard96/t39iakcwrh85/wish/160971049 Burnin' and Looting a01329533 https://padlet.com/acostard96/t39iakcwrh85/wish/162292092 Bob Marley & The Wailers
Reggae
1973

This song, written by Marley, shows the abuse and suffering of the people in the ghetto in Jamaica; it tells the story of a man that has woken up in jail and reminisces about his actions. Mostly talking about breaking down and destroying the system that enslaves]]> 2017-03-23 23:41:31 UTC https://padlet.com/acostard96/t39iakcwrh85/wish/162292092 All Together Now valeria_pescador https://padlet.com/acostard96/t39iakcwrh85/wish/162292523 The Farm
1991
Madchester

The Liverpool band told the story of the Christmas Day truce during World War I in 1914: “Countries' borders were right out of sight / When they joined together and decided not to fight.”]]> 2017-03-23 23:47:27 UTC https://padlet.com/acostard96/t39iakcwrh85/wish/162292523