Protest Music

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Wonder Cabinet Productions

Society & Culture, Wonder, Philosophy, Ttbook, Knowledge, Interview

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2017

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

We explore secret history of protest music -- from the early days of rock and roll to the non-violent hip hop message of FM Supreme. The Soundtracks of the Vietnam War; Blind Alfred Reed's Early Protest Song; Sam Phillips: In Search of Revolutionary Music ; Industrial Music: The Ultimate Protest Music?; FM Supreme, Humanitarian Rap Artist.

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0:00.0	Support for WPR comes from St. Luke's Burthing Center, providing expectant mom's low intervention options with labor tubs, remote telemetry, and nitrous oxide.
0:10.3	More information is at slh Duluth.com slash baby.
0:14.8	Hi, I'm Anne Strandchamps.
0:17.2	There's something happening here here But what it is
0:21.6	Ain't exactly clear
0:23.6	Remember this, the sound of protest.
0:40.3	For one generation, this was the sound of resistance, but for another, it was more like this.
0:45.3	Fight the power!
0:47.3	Fight the power!
0:49.3	Fight the power!
0:50.3	Fight the power!
0:52.3	Or maybe this was more your sound.
0:59.7	Whatever your musical tastes, whatever your politics, music can be a tool for social change.
1:07.2	Today, unto the best of our knowledge, protest music.
1:10.0	You may think you know what it sounds like.
1:12.3	But this hour, we're going to give you a secret history of protest music.
1:16.2	Songs you might have missed or misinterpreted, beginning with the sound of the Vietnam War.
1:21.7	Sometimes I think that Vietnam was America's Second Civil War, and we never recovered from it.
1:26.3	We decided we were just going to
1:27.8	forget it and move on. You can't. That's Doug Bradley. He's a Vietnam vet and co-author of a
1:34.3	groundbreaking new musical history. It's called We Gotta Get Out of This Place, the soundtrack of
1:39.7	the Vietnam War. Rolling Stone picked it as the best music book of 2015. Bradley wrote it with cultural
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