Protest songs

Protest songs are interesting to me since it is taking something that we listen to all the time and haft the time we aren’t even thinking about haft the time. But back in the day they were more than just something to be humming while doing chores around the house or to keep you up while doing your homework. 

            But in the 60s and earlier a lot of the songs had some kind of protest to them, something that they can make a statement to about something that is not right in the world. 

            This week we learned about a few different artists that wrote these songs and a little bit of the history of why these songs might have been written. Some of the people that we heard songs about where; Woody Guthrie, Lead belly, Pete Seeger, and Bob Dylan. 

            These were all folk singers in America. Folk songs tell us a story and has the listener thinking more about what is happening and how the song is meaningful to the singer and time period of it all. 

            One song that I really enjoyed listening to is “Where Have all the Flowers Gone?” by Pete Seeger. This song is one of those songs that makes you think about what the hidden message behind the song is and why was this written and what is the importance of it. This song gave me something to think about since I love flowers so that’s the first part. But after that you start thinking about the importance of them and how they represent seasonal changes. They come to life in the spring and summer time and start to die off in the fall and then are dead in winter and it keeps going. History is like that in some sense how things in history go around and round again and how they never really get solved.

            One example that I can think is the black life’s matter movement and the civil rights movement. They both are around same skin equality and how we shouldn’t treat people with different skin colors differently. 

            We are supposed to be learning through history and not just keep going in these circles.