Top Ten Protest Songs and the Events that Inspired Them – 7

I think the first people who are really
ever writing protest songs are people
who i like to call 20th century pioneers
for change a great example of this would
be a woman who a lot of us potentially
don’t know these days but her name is
Julia Ward Howe and basically what these
people did they didn’t seem too they
don’t seem to have written a lot of
their own music they tended to take
songs that were kind of like a great
American standards that everyone knew
that everyone could sit along sing along
to and they change the words now a great
example of this is the suffrage song
which is sung to the tune of America and
and that’s a that’s that’s house own own
song and why I find this so interesting
is that these songs were used to
motivate in rally people from many
diverse backgrounds and culture all
experiencing different type of
oppressions and I really feel that
they’re a precursor to for example a
George Harrison or Neil Young who have
their their farm aid in their Live Aid
and their concert for Bangladesh which
are really just all about raising
awareness and saying hey you see what’s
going on in the world this isn’t right
and without these early 20th century
kind of pioneers for change and without
this like this early movement these
later people wouldn’t have been possible
which is why I really wanted to to
single out a person like Julia Ward Howe