On this edition of Jukebox Journey, as a nod to the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, Kevin explores the building blocks of American protest music.

This past weekend, Bad Bunny kicked off his first shows of 2026 with the Debi Tirar Mas Fotos World Tour stop in Santiago, ...

Protest songs are already being written and posted online about the ICE shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis.

While they get rich on the profits that I lose And leaving me here with the working girl blues.” Born in West Virginia in 1935, Hazel Dickens lived and understood the experiences of working people — ...

On this day (October 23) in 1963, Bob Dylan entered the Columbia recording studio in New York and recorded “The Times They Are a-Changing.” The song captured the hearts and minds of listeners who, at ...

Today, entertainment is political. Despite this trend, however, political conviction continues to elicit resolute objection: people continue to dislike the invasive nature of today’s politics, and ...

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 ...

One of the most famous protest songs of all time is “Give Peace a Chance” by John Lennon. Famously performed from Lennon and wife Yoko Ono‘s hotel room in Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal, Canada, the ...

I was delighted to see the June 9 op-ed by Rebecca Spiess and Alicia Chen, “In the Trump era, where have all the protest songs gone?” Yes, we need the famous singer-songwriters of our time to be a ...

Some of Bob Dylan‘s most famous Civil Rights and general protest songs include “Blowin’ In The Wind”, “The Times They Are A-Changin’”, “Oxford Town”, “All Along The Watchtower”, and “The Lonesome ...

Many immigrants are pushing back against President Trump's crackdown on migrants in the country without legal status, and a new song has become something of a rallying cry. This song, "Donaltron," is ...