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Articles: Why & How

Protest Music Illustrates Strife, Discontent Throughout History
by Chris Duncan, in Daily Texan (newspaper). Mar 6, 2017. Accessed via database Sirs Reacher
Who's Afraid of Music?
By Carol Estes in Yes! A Journal of Positive Futures. Summer 2002. Accessed via database, Sirs Researcher.
SOUND AND FURY OF PROTEST MOVEMENTS
NPR Tell Me More (segment) , host Michel Martin, 2011. Accessed via database, In Contest: US History.
Music, An Underlying Force Behind Protests
NPR Tell Me More (segment), host Celeste Headlee, 2013. Accessed via database Gale in Context: US History.
One, Two, Three, Four! What Makes a Protest Song Really Soar?
by Kim Ode in Star Tribune (newspaper). Feb 17, 2017. Accessed via database Sirs Researcher.
The history of American protest music, from “Yankee Doodle” to Kendrick Lamar: How protest music evolved from Civil War refrains to viral Trump videos.
by By Bridgett Henwood, May 22, 2017. VOX (news and media with a mission explain the news)

Music of the Movement: Protest Music Has Long Been a Messenger of Resistance | NBCLX

Learning Commons Books

782.42 MEA Songs of America : patriotism, protest, and the music that made a nation by Jon Meacham & Tim McGraw

781.6409 SOU Sounds of rebellion: music in the 60's edited by Jeff Wallenfeldt

781.65 SHA The encyclopedia of jazz & blues by Keith Shadwick

781.6309 DIS Disco, punk, new wave, heavy metal, and more : music in the 1970s and 1980s edited by Michael Ray

781.640973 ALT Alternative, country, hip-hop, rap, and more : music from the 1980s to today edited by Michael Ray

782.42166 BON Surrender : 40 songs, one story by Bono

782.42 LYN 33 revolutions per minute : a history of protest songs, from Billie Holiday to Green Day by Dorian Lynskey

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