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Protest Music: A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall

Protest Music: A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall. A song intended to bring attention to societal problem. Every major movement in Western history has seen protest songs - slave emancipation - women’s suffrage - civil rights - Vietnam War - Iraq War.

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Protest Music: A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall

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  1. Protest Music: A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall

  2. A song intended to bring attention to societal problem Every major movement in Western history has seen protest songs - slave emancipation - women’s suffrage - civil rights - Vietnam War - Iraq War

  3. Purposes? Present problem in emotional, not rational terms

  4. Create moral unity on an issue

  5. Recruit more members by gaining sympathy

  6. Present a solution to the problem

  7. Important Singers?

  8. Bob Dylan: Blowin’ in the Wind, Hard Rain, Times They Are A Changing

  9. Pete Seeger: Where Have all the Flowers Gone?

  10. Peter, Paul & Mary: If I Had a Hammer, Leaving on a Jet Plane, Abraham Martin & John

  11. Credence Clearwater Revival:Run Through the Jungle, Fortunate Son

  12. Joan Baez:We Shall Overcome

  13. Janis Joplin:

  14. Arlo Guthrie:Alice’s Restaurant Massacre

  15. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young:Ohio, Teach Your Children Well

  16. The Beatles: Imagine Give Peace A Chance

  17. Pro-War Songs? Yes! Battle of the Green Beret Proud to be a Okie from Muskogee

  18. Woodstock: Summer of Love Summer of ‘69 Huge outdoor music festival Culmination of the hippie generation Free love Mucho drugs

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