CJ Baker – Page 7 – The Ongoing History of Protest Music

Daily Dose of Protest: Get Together – The Youngbloods

RIP Jesse Coilin Young (November 22, 1941 – March 16, 2025), artist website On March 16, 2025 singer-songwriter Jesse Colin Young sadly died at 83. He had a long successful…

CJ Baker March 19, 2025

Daily Dose of Protest

Daily Dose of Protest: Red – Jesse Welles

Photo Credit: Justin, CC BY 3.0 The prolific singer-songwriter continues to regularly post topical tunes. This includes his most recent album Middle released in February, and two albums and an…

CJ Baker March 18, 2025

Songs Lists Videos

Top 25 Protest Songs of All Time (Video)

https://youtu.be/pADVUncx2wY?si=Xa_9Q2MlEoO_a2TO Check out the complete 100 Best Protest Songs list.

CJ Baker March 18, 2025

Songs Lists

100 Best Protest Songs of All Time

I recorded a reaction video when Rolling Stone posted its list of the 100 best protest songs of all time. I decided to go one step further and create my…

CJ Baker March 18, 2025

Protest Music Hall of Fame

Protest Music of Hall of Fame: Rebel Girl – Bikini Kill

From the artist's Bandcamp "When she walks, the revolution's comin'In her hips, there's revolutionWhen she talks, I hear the revolutionIn her kiss, I taste the revolution" These are lyrics to…

CJ Baker March 17, 2025

Protest Music Hall of Fame

Protest Music Hall of Fame: The Message – Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five

"Don't push me cause I'm close to the edgeI'm trying not to lose my headIt's like a jungle sometimesIt makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under" That famous…

CJ Baker March 16, 2025

Protest Music Hall of Fame

Protest Music Hall of Fame: Little Boxes – Malvina Reynolds

Source: malvinareynolds.com "And the people in the housesAll went to the universityWhere they were put in boxesAnd they came out all the same" "Little Boxes" is an anti-conformist anthem composed…

CJ Baker March 15, 2025

Protest Music Hall of Fame

Protest Music Hall of Fame: Sinéad O’Connor

Sinéad O’Connor (December 8, 1966-July 26, 2023) Photo courtesy of Man Alive, via Flickr The influential and controversial Irish singer-songwriter first received international success with her 1987 debut The Lion and the…

CJ Baker March 15, 2025

Protest Music Hall of Fame

Protest Music Hall of Fame: We Shall Overcome – Pete Seeger and Joan Baez

Joan Baez performing at the March on Washington, August 28, 1963. Photo Credit: Scherman, Rowland, U.S. Information Agency. Press and Publications Service "We shall live in peaceWe shall live in peaceWe…

CJ Baker March 14, 2025

Protest Music Hall of Fame

Protest Music Hall of Fame: Strange Fruit – Billie Holiday

August 7, 1930 photograph of the lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, helped inspire Abel Meeropol to compose "Strange Fruit". Photo Credit: Lawrence Beitler "Southern trees bear strange fruitBlood on the leaves…

CJ Baker March 14, 2025