protest song report

Report by Peggy Seeger and Ewan MacColl's protest song "This bomb disappeared." Peggy Seeger and Ewan MacColl were popular folk musicians before and during the Vietnam War era. They love humanity and are longing for justice and peace in the world. The theme of their song is the reality people of the real world. They wrote and sang to survive. Their lyrics are simple, sometimes traditional melodies form the basis of their songs. Their music equipments are mainly audio equipment, they play for large audiences around the world.

Sociologist R. Serge Denisoff sees the protest song narrowly as a form of persuasive power and propaganda. Denisov believes that tradition protesting against songs comes from songs of "psalm" or grassroots "Protestant Renaissance Movement", and these hymns are called "protest propaganda". Denisov subdivided the protest song into "magnetic" or "rhetorical". The purpose of the "magnetic" protest song is to encourage people to participate in sports, encourage group solidarity and dedication. For example, "Let's stare your eyes with the prize" and "We will overcome." On the other hand, 'rhetorical' protest songs often feature personal indignation and provide direct political information aimed at changing political views. Denisov believes that "rhetorical" songs are usually not clearly related to the construction of larger sports, but they should be considered "protest - propaganda".

Protest songs are songs that protest against problems perceived by society. Every major movement in Western history is accompanied by a collection of protest songs, from slavery liberation to women's voting rights, workers' movement, civil rights, antiwar movement, feminist movement, and environmental movement. Over time, these songs are more abstract (such as not purely protesting individual wars), corruption, racial discrimination, morality of general war, globalization, inflation, social inequality, imprisonment, I began to protest against moral problems.

The text of protest songs may have important cognitive content. Labor Movement Musical "pin and needle" summarizes the definition of protest song called "song of my social meaning to sing". Phil Ochs explained earlier: "The protest song is a very specific song, you can not mistake it with the BS." An example of an 18th century feature song as a feminist protest song is "women's rights" (1795) "God saves the king" was written anonymously by "A Lady" and was published in Minerva, Philadelphia on October 17, 1795. There is no evidence that it was sung as a song of sports. Recent songs that claim liberation are "Sexo" (1985) by Los Prisioneros.