7-1+Protest+Music

Add your link to a protest song. Do a little research on the piece. Why is it considered protest music? Who wrote it? Who performs it? Is it an effective protest song? Why?

lyrics: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/c/cat+stevens/peace+train_20028199.html music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Q7iLPnDCQ1g#! My song is "Peace Train" written and performed by Cat Stevens. In this song I believe that he is singing about all the good things to come including peace. The peace train represents peace finally arriving, and he wants everyone to get on the peace train and resolve conflict. I think it is considered protest music because it is saying things against war and hate. I think that it is an effective protest song because the music is pretty and catchy, which will make people want to listen and it will affect people more. -Grace Para = = =this was michael black or white. he was just basically saying it does not matter if you black white indian or what ever. we all are pretty much the same. Also he singing for world peace and no fights. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dgAaCUa4nM = -robert baldwin

For my protest song i chose the song __at the end of the day__ from les miserables. i think this song can be clasified as a protest song because it really shows how terrible the people’s lifes are here is a verse that really demonstrate this: At the end of the day you're another day older And that's all you can say for the life of the poor It's a struggle, it's a war And there's nothing that anyone's giving One more day, standing about, what is it for? One day less to be living.At the end of the day you're another day colder And the shirt on your back doesn't keep out the chill And the righteous hurry pastThey don't hear the little ones cryingAnd the winter is coming on fast, ready to kill One day nearer to dying! it was written about a ffrench war but not acualy written during the war it is from a broadway play.

Jerica Xu- [|Here's my Protest Song] I think my protest song is protesting about how everywhere there are signs that are discriminating people from places. Also, they are stating what others should do, and what others should not do. I think it means that there is always someone having control.

Marie's protest song: Give Peace a Chance by John Lennon song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwNg4lHFj7I lyrics: http://www.absolutelyrics.com/lyrics/view/john_lennon/give_peace_a_chance This song is about having peace with everyone and no war

Ryan Wolynetz-[|Here's my song:)] I chose this because it opposes war.

My song is: __99 Luftballoons__, by Nena. It is actually in German, but the lyrics I found are (not intirelly direct) translated into english. I think this is a protest song because it says at one point: '//99 war ministers matches and gasoline canisters. They thought they were clever people. Already smelled a nice bounty. Called for war and wanted power. Man, who would've thought that things would someday go so far because of 99 balloons//.' It is an effective protest song, at least for those who can understand it, because it talks about how the people have had to much of war, and want for the madness to stop. The song is sung in German, but there are English lyrics in the video: [] -**//Victoria S//**

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_s0b-gwnWQ This song is called we're the 99 it is a protest song because there singing about what they want to change and what is wrong currently also how it never hsould have happened in the first place. -Delaney


 * This Is my Protest Song. It is a protest song because it is about standing in the way of control and living your own life because of that. This song is performed by the group Gossip. It could be used to talk about standing in the way of control and not letting other people control your life or who you are .**

Protest Song:

[] -Lyrics to Protest Song Link for Protest song: [] -Leah

====My song is "We Will Overcome," sang by Joan Baez. This song is a protest song because it talks about overcoming hard things. It was originally titled as, "I'll Overcome Someday," written by Charles Albert Tindley. But, in 1947 the song was published as "We Will Overcome." Joan Baez sang this song at rallies, folk festivals, and concerts in the North.====

Link for Protest Song:
http://billmoyers.com/content/a-twenty-one-protest-song-salute/

-Jake

The song that i chose to use for this protest piece was Lonesome death of Hattie Carroll by Bob Dylan. Bob Dylan's inspiration came out of a news paper article, that he only changed a few words to make his song. The song is about a girl who was murdered for being black and was killed by a white man. Jack Coons http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5suICGgOX8

My protest song is We Can Make The World Stop by Alun Parry. This is a protest song about the government, but they need us to be in charge! My link to the lyrics: http://parrysongs.co.uk/go/songs/we-can-make-the-world-stop/ My Lyrics to the song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPe4SM8rhcg

My protest song is called "This land is your land". I chose this song as my protest song because I like the message. I think the song message is saying that if you have nowhere to go then you can go to their "land". By their "land" I think it means home, you can come to my home. It is a protest song because it is saying that someone you can be alone and doing something you believe in but they are always welcome to that persons "land". This is the link to my song with lyrics> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4OmHUExIEk

~Sammie Conner

My protest song was "Get Up Stand Up" by Bob Marley. I picked this song because I felt like it had a good meaning by saying "don't give up the fight" I think that it says after you start what you want to do even though it's hard don't give up the fight. This song was protesting rights for people. Here's the link to the song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuMlHdxiIZ8 -Nathaniel


 * This is my protest song It is by steel pulse. **
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** I chose Michael Jackson's "Earth Song" **one of the most unusual, audacious protest songs in popular music history.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joe-vogel/michael-jackson-earth-song_b_882740.html

-steven