Protest Songs
Timetable and Themes:
1900–1920; Labor Movement, Class Struggle, and The Great War
1920s–1930s; The Great Depression and Racial Discrimination
1940s- 1950s; The labor movement vs McCarthyism; Anti-Nuclear songs
1960s; the Civil Rights Movement, The Vietnam War, and Peace and Revolution
1970s; The Vietnam War, Soul Music
1980s: Anti-Reagan protest songs, and the birth of Rap
1990s; Hard-Rock Protest Bands, Women's Rights, and Protest Parodies
2000- now; The Iraq War and the Revival of the Protest Song+ Contemporary Protest Songs