Why, in an era when music's biggest stars are more outspoken than ever, does it feel like we're still waiting for the ...

Pascarella: Protest songs are not simply cultural accessories to events. They are historical artifacts, rhetorical arguments and emotional archives.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Responding to tragedy in song is an age-old American tradition. From slave spirituals to civil rights-era protest songs to the YG ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In late January, Bruce Springsteen released "Streets of Minneapolis," memorializing Minnesota residents shot by Immigration and ...

Politics is the enemy of art. When art is conscripted into a cause, it risks shrinking into instruction. This is not a novel idea. Albert Camus warned that art pressed into ideological service ...

Performers, poets, artists and artisans came together for an emotionally charged evening of protest and peace in Flossmoor.

Music has always been more than entertainment. It's a rallying cry, a shared heartbeat in moments when words alone fall short. Throughout history, certain songs have transcended their melodies to ...

The 1970s carried the momentum of the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War’s final years, Watergate, economic turmoil, and second-wave feminism. Music did more than entertain during that decade. It ...