5 Protest Songs
Publié le 22/05/2020
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5 protest songs
· Bob Dylan, Hurricane (1975)
When Bob Dylan became aware of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a professional boxer in
jail for a murder he claimed he did not commit, he decided to write a protest song about it.
Dylan wrote an impassioned eight-minute tune about Hurricane's ordeal, dramatically raising
public awareness of the situation.
It compiles alleged acts of racism and profiling against
Carter, which Dylan describes as leading to a false trial and conviction.
· Buffalo Springfield , For What It's Worth (1967)
This protest song is about The Sunset Strip riots, also known as the "hippie riots," who
were a series of early counterculture-era clashes that took place between police and young
people on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood, California, beginning in the summer of 1966 and
continuing on and off through the early 1970s.
· Country Joe , I Feel Like I’m Fixing to Die (1967)
This is an anti-Vietnam War protest song.
The text of the song is a sarcastic invitation
for young and able men to join in the Vietnam War.
It culminates in urging parents to send
their children to war as soon as possible, so as to have a chance to be "first on the block" to
see their son coming back "in a box"
· Paul McCartney , Give Ireland Back to the Irish (1972)
This song was written in response to the events of Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland
on January 1972, in which soldiers of the British Army shot 26 civil rights protesters and
bystanders, demonstrating against discrimination towards the Catholic minority in Northern
Ireland.
· Donovan , The War Drags On (1965)
British folk singer, Mick Softley, wrote this 1960s protest song.
It tells the story of
Dan, a soldier who is sent to Vietnam.
He goes to war for justice and to fight the good fight
but discover the war and its bath of blood and bones.
He then has a regular nightmare about a
nuclear war that ends the world..
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