John Lennon was no stranger to socially conscious music, contributing many notable tunes to the canon of protest songs. One of his standouts is “Working Class Hero” off of his 1970 album, John Lennon/Plastic Ono. While some of his songs might come across as simple sloganeering, “Working Class Hero” is an insightful social commentary on class splits and how society […]
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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 Cobra, which sold over 2.5 million copies worldwide. Her 1990 follow-up I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got was even more massive selling over 7 million worldwide, and featured her mega-hit rendition of […]
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One of the objectives of this site is to create an online archive of artists, albums, and songs that have made significant contributions to the canon of protest music. With that in mind, back in 2018, I decided to create an online Protest Music Hall of Fame. I invited website visitors to fill out a Google doc to nominate their picks, […]
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The Protest Music Hall of Fame is an online archival project to draw attention to the artists, songs, and albums that have made considerable contributions to the historical development of protest music. Part two will focus on the albums and songs inducted. This is an extended Spotify version that features a song off the inducted album and all of the […]
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The Protest Music Hall of Fame is an online archival project to draw attention to the artists, songs, and albums that have made considerable contributions to the historical development of protest music. Part one will focus on the artists inducted. This is an extended Spotify version that features songs from the artists discussed. The episode was originally published on December […]
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The Protest Music Hall of Fame is an online archival project to draw attention to the artists, songs, and albums that have made considerable contributions to the historical development of protest music. This episode announces the inductees for 2020. This is also the final episode for 2020, a new season will be starting in 2021.
Learn more →After tabulating the results of a previous poll, here are the 2020 nominees for the Protest Music Hall of Fame online archival project. The poll will be open until November 30. Loading…
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One of the objectives of this site is to create an online archive of artists, albums, and songs that have made significant contributions to the canon of protest music. With that in mind, back in 2018, I decided I create an online Protest Music Hall of Fame. It is now time to start the nominating process for 2020. The results […]
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The final results are in and we now have the list of inductees into the second year of the Protest Music Hall of Fame. I will admit that Hall of Fame could be considered a misnomer. Instead of awarding accolades, it is about building awareness for socially conscious music. As the reach of this website grows, we will be able […]
Learn more →One of this site’s objective is to create a digital archive of artists and recordings that have made a significant contribution to the canon of socially conscious music. With that in mind, last year I created an online Protest Music Hall of Fame as an archival project. A couple months ago I posted a poll to begin the nominating process […]
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