Throughout history, musicians have used music as commentary on current events. It’s often powerful, and it’s a phenomenon ...

Messersmith captured the unexpected occurrence in a video, filming himself listening and laughing as The Current's Jill Riley ...

Artists from Jesse Welles to Nashville songwriter Zach Schmidt are singing about the senseless killing of Renee Good ...

Music was the heartbeat of the Civil Rights era. It provided a powerful voice for change by transforming spirituals and folk ...

When Maui musician Gail Swanson was growing up in Chicago, she would often accompany her mother on protest marches. “On the ...

Bob Dylan's radical reworking of "Masters of War" at the 1991 Grammys split fans between those who declared the performance a bold success and others who derided it as a muddled mess. If the verdict ...

Bob Dylan started his career by writing inherently political protest music. He moved away from this style of music relatively quickly, but his protest songs are still culturally significant. When ...

The set-up for a typical Jesse Welles video is simple: the 32-year-old stands in an open field under a string of powerlines, clutching an acoustic guitar. From behind a tousled, curly mop of hair, he ...

Ali Primera sang songs of resistance to inequality and injustice—songs of resistance to the United States. And he had reason ...

With a guitar and banjo in hand, a handful of students braved freezing weather at The Rock at noon last Sunday to sing protest songs against the University’s recent deal with the Trump administration ...

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