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Protest/Politically Charged Song Recommendations

sammyyummy

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Hello.

What are your favorite protest/ politically-charged songs of which some have a bit of a hopeful tone towards the end?
Your recommendations would be appreciated.

Here are mine:
Dixie Chicks - Not Ready to Make Nice/ Easy Silence
System of Down - BYOB
Donny Hathaway - He Ain't Heavy/ Someday We'll All be Free
Nina Simone - Mississippi ^&*damn/ Young Gifted and Black/ I Wish I Knew How...
Billie Holliday - Strange Fruit
Tracy Chapman - Talkin Bout Revolution/ Behind The Wall
Sinead O Connor - Black Boys on Mopeds
Cranberries - Zombie
U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday/ One/ Pride
Marvin Gaye - What's Goin On/ Mercy Mercy.
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Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name



This song makes the point that some members of the US police force were, and possibly still are, members of the Ku Klux Klan ("Some of those who wear forces are the same that burn crosses").
 
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I'll contribute a protest song about 100 years old - and I'm absolutely certain you've heard it so many, many times before.

If there ever was a Swedish protest singer writing a song to catch on like wildfire, it most certainly was Joel Emmanuel Hägglund (1879-1915), born in the province of Gästrikland, Sweden, but emigrated to the US in his early youth as did 1.5 million other Swedes in the late 19th and early 20th century.

Now you'll say that you've never ever heard of Joel Emmanuel Hägglund - but you have most certainly heard of: Joe Hill. And you have heard of Pie in the Sky!



Joe Hill took - if I remember correctly - a catchy old Salvation Army song, wrote a completely new text to totally change the message.

I thought it would be appropriate to have one of the greatest American folksingers take on this very irreverent tune - Pete Seeger!
 
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