A History of American Protest Music: Come By Here By Tom Maxwell Feature How cultural appropriation and erasure turned an African American spiritual into a white campfire sing-along.
A History of American Protest Music: Which Side Are You On? By Tom Maxwell Feature Just as we were in the 1930s and ’60s, America is suffering a moral crisis. We have to decide which side we are on: hate and exclusion, or justice, inclusion, and democracy?
A History of American Protest Music: This Is the Hammer That Killed John Henry By Tom Maxwell Feature How a folk hero inspired one of the most covered songs in American history.
A History of American Protest Music: ‘We Have Got Tools and We Are Going to Succeed’ By Tom Maxwell Feature Lead Belly, Lee Hays, and the hammer songs that powered the folk movement.
A History of American Protest Music: When Nina Simone Sang What Everyone Was Thinking By Tom Maxwell Feature “Mississippi Goddam” was an angry response to tragedy, in show tune form.
A History of American Protest Music: How The Hutchinson Family Singers Achieved Pop Stardom with an Anti-Slavery Anthem By Tom Maxwell Feature “Get Off the Track!” borrowed the melody of a racist hit song and helped give a public voice to the abolitionist movement.
