Hand in Hand: Music & Protest
Music and protest have gone hand in hand since the beginning of civilized society. Music moves people to do things that spoken word alone cannot. It creates a feeling inside that is so powerful that it drives change. Music is something that brings people together and creates discussion and addresses issues and drives the movement forward. As I was preparing to write this post I was researching the history of protest music, especially the history of American protest music and I found some articles that talk about it much better than I can so I am just going to link them here. Vox - "The history of American protest music, from "Yankee Doodle" to Kendrick Lamar" https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/4/12/14462948/protest-music-history-america-trump-beyonce-dylan-misty AXS - "Songs of the Civil Rights Movement" https://www.axs.com/songs-of-the-civil-rights-movement-74297 Music says things that cannot be described with just words, as I stated before. It is ofte
