Protest Music: A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall

A song intended to bring attention to societal problem

Every major movement in Western history has seen protest songs

- slave emancipation - women’s suffrage - civil rights - Vietnam War - Iraq War

Purposes? Present problem in emotional, not rational terms

Create moral unity on an issue

Recruit more members by gaining sympathy

Present a solution to the problem

Important Singers?

Bob Dylan: Blowin’ in the Wind, Hard Rain, Times They Are A Changing

Pete Seeger: Where Have all the Flowers Gone?

Peter, Paul & Mary: If I Had a Hammer, Leaving on a Jet Plane, Abraham Martin & John

Credence Clearwater Revival:Run Through the Jungle, Fortunate Son

Joan Baez:We Shall Overcome

Janis Joplin:

Arlo Guthrie:Alice’s Restaurant Massacre

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young:Ohio, Teach Your Children Well

The Beatles: Imagine Give Peace A Chance

Pro-War Songs? Yes!

Battle of the Green Beret

Proud to be a Okie from Muskogee

Woodstock: Summer of Love

Summer of ‘69 Huge outdoor music

festival Culmination of the

hippie generation Free love Mucho drugs