Protest & Topical Song Singers--From the 60s & 70s through Today
One For the Road 1776 · erm76
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Show Notes
Most folks don’t realize that your vote is about the bestthing you got in the world because it is the best thing you can use to change the world and make it better.”
Woody Guthrie, in an essay to Alan Lomax, ca. November, 1940
The podcast explores some of the protest and topical songsand their writers/singers from the 1960s through to the present day. This is Part 1 of a 2-part podcast. In Part 1, Liz, Bob and I lay out the landscape of the songs and singers. Part II is a more give and take conversation.
Pete Seeger famously used the phrase “Woody’s Children” todescribe the generation of political folk singers in the 1960s who were directly inspired by the music, activism, and legacy of Woody Guthrie. And this title can be extended to the present day to those who ae protesting againstmany of the same issues we’re faced some 60+ years ago. While the Vietnam War ended in the 1970s, we’re still fighting against racism, government abuses, civil rights and poverty. So, while the world has been made over in many ways, much has also remained the same. And it’s ultimately up to us to keep the music and the activism alive.
Opening photo: © MMM 1972