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Protest Pop? Resistance Rock?

Two of the greats
Can popular music be a force for societal change? What an irrelevant question for anyone who came of age in the 1960s, when most popular music was all about political action. Pete Seeger, the Weavers, Peter, Paul, and Mary, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Arlo Guthrie, the list goes on and on, from the lyrical soliloquy of “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?” to the anthem of “We Shall Overcome.”

So where’s popular music today on the Resistance spectrum? Ironically, that question was raised by a recent article Read More 
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