In this lesson plan, students learn about protest music by reading an excerpt of a text lesson. Students will then listen to Vietnam War protest music, and dissect it and its meaning through class discussion. Learning Objectives After this lesson, students will be able to: ...
Yoko Ono and John Lennon in December 1969,"The War Is Over"one of the best war protest songs. Baby boomers conjure up the memories of the Vietnam war protests of the 60's and 70's.Some of the best protest songs are the one's that will be spotlighted in this article which include ...
"Ball Of Confusion"was one of the many songs of Psychedelic/Soul Norman Whitfield wrote /produced for the Temptations between the late '60 and early '70s. The song attacks the Vietnam War, Nixon's government and drug addiction, making it one of the few if not the only protest records th...
Absolutely not. Many people feel like protest music is something that came and went with the Vietnam War era and civil rights, but that's just not so. Protest music has accompanied every major (and many minor) periods of progress in America, and the current generation is no exception. The...
But whether any of the songs come to crystallize recent events in the way Buffalo Springfield's "For What It's Worth" came to symbolize the Vietnam War era, well, it ain't exactly clear. "It often takes time for ideas to percolate through and for people to step back and take a brea...
This chapter examines a set of compositions and cover songs created by Latin American musicians between 1967 and 1973 in reaction to the Vietnam War. These songs belonged to a broader "playlist of protest," a transnational repertoire of music composed during the 1960s to grow support for ...
commentary and protest songs. Because of thefolk music revivalin the middle of the 20th Century - and the socio-political climate in America in the 1950s and '60s (the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War era, etc.) many people these days conflate American folk music with political ...
Protest Music“Four Dead in O-hi-o” Kent State: 1970Life magazine of May 15, 1970 showing one of the Kent State University students who was shot by National Guardsman during a time of unrest over the Vietnam War. Click for Amazon page. “Ohio” is the name of a song that marks ...
The mid-seventies saw the end of the Vietnam War, and the decline of protest music. As the war came to an end, so did opposition to the war (which was the most popular topic for protest songs). Also, during the 70’s, corporations started taking over the music industry and it becam...
Vietnam War protestors at Kent State University, the event that effectively ended US support of the disastrous war. CSNY added to the pressure with this classic, catchy song that ensured that the the Kent State shooting stayed on the mind of the American public for months and years to come....