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history of american protest music

Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Story

A History of American Protest Music: Come By Here

by Tom Maxwell January 10, 2019October 19, 2022

How cultural appropriation and erasure turned an African American spiritual into a white campfire sing-along.

Posted inArts & Culture, History, Nonfiction, Story

A History of American Protest Music: Which Side Are You On?

by Tom Maxwell August 29, 2018October 19, 2022

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?

John Henry
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Story

A History of American Protest Music: This Is the Hammer That Killed John Henry

by Tom Maxwell October 4, 2017October 19, 2022

How a folk hero inspired one of the most covered songs in American history.

John Henry
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction

A History of American Protest Music: This Is the Hammer That Killed John Henry

by Tom Maxwell October 4, 2017October 19, 2022

How a folk hero inspired one of the most covered songs in American history.

Posted inArts & Culture, History, Nonfiction, Story

A History of American Protest Music: ‘We Have Got Tools and We Are Going to Succeed’

by Tom Maxwell October 4, 2017October 19, 2022

Lead Belly, Lee Hays, and the hammer songs that powered the folk movement.

Posted inArts & Culture, History, Nonfiction

A History of American Protest Music: ‘We Have Got Tools and We Are Going to Succeed’

by Tom Maxwell October 4, 2017October 19, 2022

Lead Belly, Lee Hays, and the hammer songs that powered the folk movement.

Nina Simone
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Story, Uncategorized

A History of American Protest Music: When Nina Simone Sang What Everyone Was Thinking

by Tom Maxwell April 20, 2017October 19, 2022

“Mississippi Goddam” was an angry response to tragedy, in show tune form.

Hutchinson Family Singers, 1845
Posted inArts & Culture, Featured, Nonfiction, Story, Uncategorized

A History of American Protest Music: How The Hutchinson Family Singers Achieved Pop Stardom with an Anti-Slavery Anthem

by Tom Maxwell March 7, 2017October 19, 2022

“Get Off the Track!” borrowed the melody of a racist hit song and helped give a public voice to the abolitionist movement.

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