Songs of the Civil Rights Movement Come to Brockton Church and CoffeehouseKnox, Robert
reworked, and reapplied within the context of the civil rights movement. Like the original, this adaptation talked about the importance of endurance while struggling toward freedom. The song has been through many incarnations, but the refrain has remained much the same: ...
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This early 1964 track was a departure forSam Cooke, who hadn’t previously addressed the Civil Rights Movement in his music. But the times were a-changing and he’d been inspired both by Dylan’s “Blowing in the Wind” and Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. (Cooke...
black. (Source: The RS 500 Greatest Songs of All Time). This was an era of segregation, and Cooke was very popular with white audiences due to his hit “Twistin’ the Night Away,” so it took guts to create this song and perform it before the Civil Rights Movement had really begun....
seriesPose). A Pettibone co-production, "Vogue" brought an underground movement into the mainstream, winking to (and even name-checking) the past while creating something cutting-edge. It's also very possible that "Vogue" is the ultimate LGBTQ Pride Month anthem. This is a song about unity...
Those were the days of the civil rights movement, which all of us cared passionately about, so this was really a song from me to a black woman, experiencing these problems in the States: “Let me encourage you to keep trying, to keep your faith; there is hope.” Applied to the ...
Covering the first three decades of Franklin's life — from her traumatic childhood and church beginnings to her pivotal role in the civil rights movement, abusive marriage and recording of seminal live album Amazing Grace — Liesl Tommy's directorial debut delves deep into the opening...
referencing the 1918 Spanish Flu, beginning of the Great Depression in 1930 and the Civil Rights movement of 1968. (“There’s the sense that time is accelerating by the day,” Folds says of the song in a press statement. “It’s personally disorienting, and also artistically disorienting.”...
Paul McCartney originally wrote 1968's “Blackbird” as a hopeful essay about the Civil Rights movement in contentious times. Now repurposed by Bey, she invites several Black female artists to cover the track. With acoustic guitar, gentle handclaps, and beautiful harmonies, Beyoncé ushers in a...