Daily Dose of Protest – Page 12 – The Ongoing History of Protest Music

Daily Dose of Protest: 3 Songs Off Black Belt Eagle Scout’s Upcoming Album <em>The Land, the Water, the Sky</em>

Daily Dose of Protest: 3 Songs Off Black Belt Eagle Scout’s Upcoming Album The Land, the Water, the Sky

From the artist's Bandcamp Black Belt Eagle Scout is the alias of Katherine Paul, an indigenous multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter. Her third studio album, The Land, the Water, the Sky will be released…

CJ Baker January 11, 2023

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Daily Dose of Protest: Guns to a Playground Fight – Gabrielle Zwi

From the artist's website Today marks the 10-year anniversary of the Sandy Hook school shooting where 26 were killed. Instead of being an isolated event, sadly there have been several…

CJ Baker December 14, 2022

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Daily Dose of Protest: Inflation – Earnest Jackson and Sugar Daddy and the Gumbo Roux

Music is often an outlet for songwriters to express their political and personal frustrations. That was the case with the New Orleans singer-songwriter Earnest Jackson, who in 1975 composed the…

CJ Baker November 22, 2022

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Daily Dose of Protest: Waltzing Will Trilogy – Lavender Country

Photo via Sarah Stierch, (CC BY 4.0) On October 31st, 2022, trail-blazing singer-songwriter and activist Patrick Haggerty died at the age of 78. A few weeks earlier he suffered a…

CJ Baker November 9, 2022

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Daily Dose of Protests: Nazi Punks Fuck Off – Dead Kennedys

Photo via Stefan Brending, Lizenz: Creative Commons by-sa-3.0 de On October 28, 2022, Darren Henley, better known as D.H. Peligro sadly died at the age of 63. He was primarily…

CJ Baker October 31, 2022

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Daily Dose of Protest: Man with No Name – Fantastic Negrito

Photo courtesy of WFUV Public Radio In Virginia, back in 1759, a white Scottish servant, Elizabeth Gallimore, fell in love with a black slave whose name had been lost over…

CJ Baker October 25, 2022

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Daily Dose of Protest: Pour! Pour! Pour! (Starbucks Barista Union Song) – Pink Williams

From the artist's Bandcamp. Country music has long been viewed as a politically conservative music genre, but there are a handful of artists that have been challenging traditional views. This…

CJ Baker October 5, 2022

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Daily Dose of Protest: The Money – Rain Perry

From the artist's Bandcamp Singer-songwriter Rain Perry recently released A White Album, a concept piece that addresses white privilege. She is also working on producing a stage version of the…

CJ Baker September 21, 2022

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Daily Dose of Protest: The Spectacle – I Like Trains

From the artist's Bandcamp The latest single by the UK post-punk band is a scathing critique of political propaganda, which follows in the spirit of their 2020 album KOMPROMAT. “I…

CJ Baker September 16, 2022

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Daily Dose of Protest: Trouble – Miko Marks & The Resurrectors

From the artist's Bandcamp Disillusioned over a country music scene that was inhospitable to black women, Miko Marks took a 14-year hiatus before returning in 2021 with the powerful album…

CJ Baker September 15, 2022