8-1+Protest+Music

Add your link to a protest song. Do a little research on the piece. Why is it considered protest music? Who wrote it? Who performs it? Is it an effective protest song? Why?

Piara Biggs- "Get Up, Stand Up" by Bob Marley This song was written in 1973. It was written to convince people to accept Bob Marley's religion which was Rastafarian and to keep people from oppressing people from that religion. media type="youtube" key="JuMlHdxiIZ8" height="315" width="420"

Sarah Shaw-

I chose "No Surrender" by Bruce Springsteen. "No Surrender" is considered protest music because it is says:
-- You say you're tired and you just want to close your eyes And follow your dreams down Chorus:

Well, we made a promise we swore we'd always remember No retreat, baby, no surrender Like soldiers in the winter's night With a vow to defend No retreat, baby, no surrender  Now on the street tonight the lights grow dim The walls of my room are closing in There's a war outside still raging <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">You say it ain't ours anymore to win <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">I want to sleep beneath <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">In a nut shell, they dont want to forget any of the things that they have made their promises about or anything else that is important to them. It was written by Bruce Springsteen himself and he preformed it too. It was an efective protest song because of many reasons. For one, it got the message across in the John Kerry presidential election (even though he didn't win, it was efective). Also, it has had an impact on many other singers. Taylor Swift used this as one of her quotes scrolled across her arm during her concerts. She used the line "We learned more in a three-minute record than we ever learned in school" because it showed that music is important.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; text-align: center;">No Surender by Bruce Springsteen. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; text-align: center;">Please start at 1 minute. That is where the lyrics start. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; text-align: center;">The music from 0 minutes to 1 minute is good, but this is faster.

Lindsay - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCWdCKPtnYE&feature=plcp Times they are a changing by Bob Dylan, it was about the civil rights movement and has religous ties to it. It was intended to be a reflection of the situation of racism and the gap between two cultures separated from eachother.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yApAg0hl490 - Alex

I chose bring them home by Bruce Springsteen It is protest music because it means to bring hom the soldiers over seas and it is exspressing what others feel about what we should do about the war. Bruce Springsteen preforms it. It's very efective because it is really touching and it's a good song. Bruce himself wrote the song.

Emily: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYa1eI1hpDE

The song I chose is Mean, by Taylor Swift. This song is a protest song because she is telling the bully something. She is saying that no matter what, she is not going to stop protesting the way she is being treated. I chose this song because it is very inspirational.

Maya http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU9JoFKlaZ0

Wake me up when September ends I chose this song because when i did some research on it and i thought it was a really good story behind the song. The song is about war and how its effects on families. in the video, a boyfriend and girlfriend are talking and promise each other to never leave, but when the boyfriend enrolls for war, they have a argument. They then show the broken hearted girlfriend and cut between the boyfriend getting ready going into war and him in war. This song was later adopted for song for veterans and soldiers in war.

Sarah Gooderham: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n64qA5hO4rc&feature=related

Siyahamba/We are marching/We are walking

This song was a very popular African-American freedom song. This song was originally a South African hymn. In fact, I sang it in church the other weekend. It was often sung during freedom marches as well as during church. Lyrics in english: We are marching in the light of God (over and over again in different ways).

<span style="background-color: #ff5700; color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 190%; text-align: center;">Sarah Balick = = <span style="background-color: #ff5700; color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 190%; text-align: center;">This song, not only is incredibly popular, but also very inspirational. This song talks about both point of views in a war. From both sides, each country fighting. This song will, and always will be, and inspiration to everyone. I chose this song because it has been around for exactly 40 years. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwUGSYDKUxU

Elena- This song is and anti-bullying song. media type="youtube" key="Lq3iagZzloU" height="360" width="640"

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 * Paisley - I chose the song Breathe (2 am) by Anna Nalick. The song is about breaking away from people who criticize you and tell you how you should be and what you should do. This song is protesting against those people and telling them that it will be okay and they should be themselves and make mistakes. It is effective because it tells people to be themselves and not follow what other people say and don't do themselves. People are trying to break free from being stuck where they are. You can't turn back time and change anything that has happened you just have to move on and try to fix things along the way. **


 * Why is it considered protest music? Who wrote it? Who performs it? Is it an effective protest song? Why? **


 * My piece of music is OHIO by CNSY (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young). This piece of music is referring to the Kent State shootings in 1970. At Kent State university in Ohio, on May 4, 1970, college students who were unarmed, were shot by the Ohio National Guard. Four students were dead, and nine others were injured. Some of the students that were shot were protesting president Nixon’s movement for the American invasion of Cambodia. So I think that this song does a good job at explaining some of the main points in this tragedy, and also it responds to the issue in a respectful way. Also you can tell that they are protesting the fact that these people died just because they were trying to speak their minds. So overall I would consider it an effective protest song, because they rallied against an event that obviously wasn’t right, but I also think that it was effective because over 40 years later someone can find the song and learn about this piece of history like me. Without the song however, there would be less of a reminder of this event, and it is important that it is not forgotten, and that people keep getting informed. :) **

==== <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">I chose the song "Promised Land" by Bruce Springsteen. This song represents how Bruce believes in a good America and believes that it will come. Critics took this song to mean that Springsteen is searching for the "American Identity." In the song it doesn't specify how you can get to the Promised Land, however it does hold hope that you can find it if you try. He says that it's hard the way he's living now, and he needs to make a change, but it won't happen unless he takes a chance. This could be protesting the America we have today because it is not as free and as hopeful as it should be, or it could be more focused on internal searching for the right person to be, and how if you aren't happy with the way things are, you should change them so you can get to the Promised Land. ====

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Kate

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The song I chose is Give Peace A Chance written John Lennon and performed by Plastic Ono Band. It is about putting aside all the other things humans are worrying about and just being peaceful. It became the anthem of the anti Vietnam-war movement and was sung by half a million protesters in Washington, DC on October 15, 1969.