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100

What is this song protesting?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvLdawL3wHM

This song was made in 1768 and was the first propaganda song text "The Liberty Song" , words by John Dickinson, and set to an English tune by William Boyce, "Heart of Oak."

100

what is this song protesting?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x56qAJfLVEg

This song was written from a Northerner that used music to help spread the opposition to slavery. Songs like these contributed to tensions building between the North and South. 

100

What is this song protesting?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c52ElU5tQNo

In this song she exposed American racism towards African Americans, particularly with the lynchings that happened predominantly in the South, but also other parts of the world. After the 13th, 14th, & 15th amendments were passed, which abolished slavery and granted African American with rights, white americans mainly in the south, began to limit those rights and treat them unequally. Which arose in lynchings and attacks on African Americans by white supremist.

100

What is this song protesting?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I98KeKV_F9g

This song is protesting the government and their decisions on war in 1965.

100

What is this song protesting?

https://youtu.be/pF4D66f1mrs?t=28s


This song is about the African American experience in America, and the different struggles that come with it (racism, violence, police brutality).

200

What is this song protesting?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKj7FLg3WVA

This song is set to the tune of "God save the Queen", this piece of music was made to show Britain how America was becoming a world power without being under the tyranny of Britain. Proving the expectation of America failing wrong. 

200

What is this song protesting about?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jso1YRQnpCI

This song is from the Civil War. The song was popular in the Union during the American Civil War.  According to an 1890 account, the original John Brown lyrics were a collective effort by a group of Union soldiers who were referring both to the famous John Brown and also, humorously, to a Sergeant John Brown of their own battalion.  

200

What is this song protesting?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiwN5fLhKg0

"I Ain't Got No Home in This World Anymore," by Woody Guthrie talks about what most of the low class went through in the Great Depression.


200

What is this song protesting?

https://youtu.be/xG_RsFRdJGs?t=1m32s

This artist is rapping about the atomic bombs of World War Two.

200

What is this song protesting?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIzR9DpOxzc

This song is Green Day's way of criticizing modern American media, and how everyone tends to be brainwashed by it easily, becoming "American Idiots". 

300

What is this song protesting?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-zlSq4mWiE

This is an Early slave song when slaves could not actually protest they would sing to keep moral up within their communities. This song helped fellow slaves look forward to the end of a hard work day, and also helped slaves vent their frustrations. 

300

What is this song protesting?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW6EDtZZIyM

This song is about how it is wrong to tax a women when she is not represented in politics. As well as how women deserve to be able to vote, and that all people (probably meaning all white) should be treated equally.  

300

What is this song protesting?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KA40gBpDhc

(hint: Jake is an alcohol).

“Jake” was an alcoholic substance that people drank during the Prohibition as a way to go around the ban. The "Jake leg" is a paralysis caused by drinking improperly distilled or contaminated liquor.

300

What is this song protesting?

https://youtu.be/nV62OB3ORJ8?t=39s

This song was protesting about Lesbians in love in 1993; The Don’t ask, Don’t tell policy was enacted in 1994.

300

What is this song protesting?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MxCPy83shM

Similar to Childish Gambino, Tupac is rapping about the black experience in America, specifically in poorer areas. He raps about how no matter what happens, the community always tends to face hardship with no understanding or equality.