Protest requires people to take a stand and hold firm. Pop songs are designed to appeal across demographic lines. In music, ...

For a genre that confronts the horrors of the present, the protest song of 2026 is curiously backward-looking.

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In a halftime show that is charged with political expectation, Bad Bunny’s history of activism speaks for itself ...

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The Super Bowl is one of the few remaining cultural touchstones viewed by millions of people in real time and the halftime show is no stranger to controversy. But there are few parallels to this ...

Protest music has been around as long as protesting itself. Here we examine the power of the protest song, considering tracks ...

The singer’s song about the killings in Minneapolis translates private loss into a collective experience rapidly shared ...