7-3+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?

River Harper http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xpyMvYYGjY This song is me and a gun by Tori Amos. I chose this song because I hate rape and rapists. This song talks about a woman after being raped.

This song is about fighting the power. It has a cat to represent its cause. Another good song is get up stand up by Bob Marley http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuMlHdxiIZ8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LrPHozzy24

Jeffrey Mcabee

This song is call Lord abide with me by JIMMY & VELLA CAMERON its from the civil rights movement. The video describes how the african-americans are done they can't take it anymore, and they need the Lord to take them through.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj0wgQN2xiA

The piece of protest music I found is Get Up Stand Up. It is considered a protest song because the lyrics tell you to "Stand Up For Your Rights," and this tells you that the song is against oppression. Bob Marley and Peter Tosh wrote it, and Bob Marley and the Wailers performed it. It is an effective protest song because first of all it is reggae, and I think that a lot of people enjoy that category of music. It is also effective because a lot of people are probably affected by oppression even though we may not realize it, so this song can speak to many people. I also think that it is effective because the line that tells you to stand up for yourself gets repeated many times. -Hailey []

Sloan Maas Bring ‘Em Home- Pete Seeger []

Bring ‘Em Home was a song originally meant to be about bringing the U.S. soldiers back from the war in Vietnam. Lately, Pete Seeger resurrected the song so now, it’s a tribute to the U.S. soldiers that have been serving in Afghanistan and Iraq. This new version was then repeated by Bruce Springsteen in his tribute to Pete Seeger.

This song Get Up Stand Up, written by Bob Marley and Peter Tosh, is a protest song because it talks about avoiding oppression. Bob Marley and the Wailers perform this song. It is an effective protest song because the song is actually enjoyable so many people will hear it and it repeats the message a ton of times. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuMlHdxiIZ8
 * __Tony Bennett__**

Maxwell Okolo in this song by bob Marley he says that slavery was never abolished just changed over time passed. I personally liked this song it had a good tempo and i would recommend it. it is considered protests music because chants how bad slavery was. i think its affective because it was sung by Bob Marley and almost everyone knows him. so its really popular. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPbPXHaQjQQ

Faith Lewis This song is about how we cant do anything that is going on around us. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E28RoPgmsU

Take Me For What I’m Worth by The Searchers -Alice []

Eric Pincus In this song by public enemy they are telling people to fight the people trying to keep them down. They are standing in front of a large audience mostly african americans. I felt this was a good song to post because its about fighting through hardship and standing up to the "power".http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_t13-0Joyc


 * This song is about a man named Jonathan Pollard an american spy who helped the israeli avoid destruction by giving them our allies our info. this song is by Andy Gross. There **** are israelis protesting so the americans let Jonathan go. It is effective because it gets stuck in your head **
 * -Alex Patterson **

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNukC4HoVlA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82CYNj7noic
Ohio is a protest song against the Vietnam war and the killing of four protestors that went to Ohio State University. Crosby, Stills, and Nash wrote and performed this song. This song was a very affective protest song because it changed the way people thought about the war.