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We once selected important and sometimes entertaining protest songs in music history.
10 important protest songs in music history:
Midnight Oil – “Beds are Burning”
The Australian rock band Midnight Oil showed itself in 1987 with the appearance of her song “Beds Are Burning” shocked by the current state of our planet. The destruction of the environment and nature played a major role.
In addition, they showed themselves touched what the “original fathers” of their country had done to the indigenous people of Australia, the Aboriginales, when they claimed and destroyed their country.
Cat Stevens – “Where do the Children Play”
The song title already reveals Cat Steven’s concern for what we humans will leave our descendants and whether there will be the world in which it grew up in the future. The destruction of nature by humans also plays a major role here.
The song appeared on his album Tea for the Tillerman in 1970.
Ton stone shards – “no power for nobody”
“No power for nobody” is the name of the second album and at the same time the title of the most famous song of the band Ton Steine brokener. The band is considered the original fathers of the protest in Germany.
The anarchic song, written by the singer of the band Rio Reiser, became a real protest anthem in Germany in 1972. In terms of content, the song defends itself against any kind of government, control and oppression.
Keny Arkana – “La Rage”
At Keny Arkana’s “La Rage”, the protest is very clear, especially in one form: anger. The French rapper from Argentina is a globalization opponent and political activist.
The song appeared in 2006 and shines with its driving beats, their distinctive voice and a “La Rage” (in German: the anger) that was repeatedly called in the choir almost as if by itself and to join a protest. It calls for anger and dissatisfaction to take advantage of it to take action against injustice in this world.