20 Protest Songs That Matter: No. 20

I liked the list, but this song is missing from the list you:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEs-nNw4-yQ&list=UUd3582WHReGzua5XJv9u7jQ&index=1&feature=plcp

Here's a new protest song about the Afghan's protest over the burning of the Quran

http://youtu.be/zuL5OCKqyxw

Awesome list! There are some great protest songs, and it's good to see them still being appreciated. The folks over at the Riverfront Times just posted a list of their own 10 favorite American protest songs, in time for this weekend's 4th of July holiday. Here's the link (with videos): http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/atoz/2011/07/american_protest_songs_most_effective_fourth_of_july.php

What does your response have to do with the topic?

How about the "Ballad of Ira Hayes" by Johnny Cash, which was a protest against the way we treated Indians, or "Blowin in the Wind", written by the Godfather of protest songs, Bob Dylan, which blended the Civil Rights and the anti-war movement into a common cause. The real target of this song was apathy. ("How many times can a man turn his head and pretend he just doesn't see?")

Johnny Rebel on the jukebox back in the sixties was the best there ever will be..

During that time, I enjoyed Johnny Rebel on the jukebox.
Now that was some great music,, and still is..

You missed some great ones. The Great Mandala by: PP&M, Richie Havens, Pete Seagar, who wrote it, Revolution, Let It be, and several others by the Beatles, And so many. Get real about the rap, Those are hate songs, not proteat songs.

EVE OF DESTRUCTION BY BARRY MCGUIRE should have been #1 song of the top 20. your selection of the top 20 of which 1 song was in there that i believed was worthy. you guys better research better when you make selections cause you are way off on this one. there are plenty of songs that are far,far better than the ones you picked. check you bloggers remarks.

Peter Tosh wrote this anthem, taught Bob,( Bunny Wailer whom wrote The Electric Slide)and Alton Ellis , one of Jamaica's best musicians, how to play MUSIC. As far as rap, Jamaicans outside Kingston did not have electricity so enterprising men drove there with 'sound systems' on trucks and held dances with bands and people would get up and 'signify ' just like calypso where they did not watch the government controlled evening news on tv. They listened to the truth being spewed by Sparrow or whom ever who would turn in out during carnival. Third world's lead Singer Rugs said when he was a lickle bwoy he saw King Stitt and some of the founding fathers of reggae were DJs U-Roy, Eek-A-Mouse etc. and when the Wailers were teens making a record was a hustle, they rented the facilities to record, engineer, and pressed their own records! It seems americans think of the 3rd world as backwards. In remote parts of the world India e.g.the first phone they had was a cell, first tv a satellite for the whole village! Jamaicans were 'rapping' in the 50s and mixing in the 60 sand by the 70s Biggie Smalls mom was a Jamaican. Teenage Jamaicans in NYC invented Rap! Bob Marley worked at a facory in Delaware where his mom lived to make money to do 'Catch A Fire' recorded in Jamaica then he took the tapes to England where they added rock licks and pressed the records in Canada!