Public Enemy’s frontman Chuck D called out fans for misusing his band’s protest song, “Burn Hollywood Burn,” during the Los Angeles fires. The ’90’s hip-hop group’s track, which repeats the line “Burn ...

Common elements like memorability, teachability and timelessness can lead to songs moving from the stage to the streets.

If you've ever been to a protest, you know there'll be singing ... A tribute to the hip hop trio themselves, the song could equally work for the Occupy Central movement, with its never-give ...

In any case, as popular music overtook literature as a dominant medium, the protest genre followed suit. Protest songs are of their ... describe the later “Rainy Day Women #12 and 35” as ...

In many ways, it was his most all-encompassing protest song of all, rounding up all those who needed a boost under one benevolent umbrella. Bob Dylan upended the folk music world with his back-to ...