This is acid man. Hello and welcome to ACFM the home of the weird left. I'm Jeremy Gilbert. I'm here on my own today.

I hope that won't be too disappointing.

This is one of our microdose episodes where we like to focus in on a specific theme that we've covered in a recent main episode,

what we like to call the trips. And our most recent trip was on the subject of protest and we thought we couldn't let go the chance to talk about

protest music in a little bit more detail.

Music after all is all about the expression of feelings, sentiments, vibes, what we like to call in the trade,

affect. And because of its incredible power to affect us physically and emotionally.

Music is an obvious vehicle for the expression of any kind of feeling,

including the mixture of feelings of hope, anger, joy, fear and longing, which all come together to make the experience and the emotional repertoire

of all the things we might call protest.

Now, I try to do this in the way that we did one of our previous microdose

episodes on the history of folk music with a fairly exhaustive historical look at different ideas and manifestations of protest in music and

music culture going back historically up to the present and I realized it was going to take like four hours

and while we would love to put together a whole little mini series on the subject we don't

really have the capacity to do that right now so instead this is going to be pretty arbitrary. It is basically

going to be me picking out 15 tracks from 1969 up until 2023 that all have some sort of protest or explicitly political theme arguably and talking

about them.

Now the thing we're really not going to cover there is the sort of protest music

tradition meaning basically folk music with political lyrics because we did

talk about that quite a lot rather I did on the microdose episode on folk music

from a couple of years ago. The history of what we might call protest music in some general sense is very old. You can trace it back really to lyrics

we still have in historical documents from the early 16th century. If you're interested in learning a little bit about that history, I would

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