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protest

Last updated: Wed Oct 22 2025 19:14:07 GMT+0300 (Eastern European Summer Time)

Description

Protest music uses song as a vehicle for social and political commentary, challenging injustice and rallying listeners around causes of change. It spans diverse genres from folk and rock to punk and hip-hop, unified by confrontational lyrics that question authority and advocate for reform. The sound ranges from acoustic intimacy to aggressive intensity, prioritizing message over musical convention.

100 chronological releases

Place	Cover	Date	Artist	Album	Tags	Other places
63		1970	Lee Hazlewood	Cowboy In Sweden (1970 Original Soundtrack)	acoustic baroque pop country pop protest psychedelic pop singer-songwriter
45		1971	Country Joe McDonald	War War War Live	folk rock protest
75		1974	Gruppo Z	Canti anarchici italiani	italian italy protest
79		1975	Hugues Aufray	Chante Dylan	folk rock francais french protest
50		1976-01-01	Various Artists	Cantacronache 4. Canti di protesta del popolo italiano. Canti della resistenza	italiano italy protest
17		1977	Various Artists	Cantacronache 1	cantautore cantautori folk italian italy protest	cantautore # 19 cantautori # 20
36		1977	Choir And Marching Band	mmmmimm	alternative alternative pop alternative rock art pop art rock chant indie pop one man band post-rock protest science fiction singer-songwriter	chant # 19 science fiction # 27
42		1977	Choir And Marching Band	virtual rocketry	alternative alternative rock art pop art rock chant classic rock indie pop indie rock male vocalists one man band pop pop punk pop rock post-punk post-rock protest psychedelic rock rock science fiction singer-songwriter stoner rock world	one man band # 6 chant # 23 science fiction # 31
43		1980	Various Artists	The Little Red Box Of Protest Songs	protest
97		1983	The Wailers	Burnin' (Deluxe Edition)	protest roots reggae spiritual	roots reggae # 37 spiritual # 82
59		1986	Leon Rosselson	Bringing the News from Nowhere	folk protest singer-songwriter
86		1988	Various Artists	Pietà l'è morta - Canti della resistenza italiana 1	italian italy protest	italy # 47
23		1989	Frank Ferrer	Puerto Rico 2013	folk latin protest
7		1990	Bill Spoon	I Still Remember	protest
52		1990	Phil Ochs	There and Now: Live in Vancouver	folk protest
9		1991	The Rye	Songs of Innocence and Expedience	english protest rock
56		1991	The Specials	Protest Songs 1924-2012	british protest
83		1992	Woody Guthrie	Very Best Of Woody Guthrie	blues folk protest singer-songwriter
69		1994	Si Kahn	In My Heart: A Retrospective	protest
5		1995	Sivan Perwer	Ya Star	kurdish	kurdistan # 63 kurdish # 84
11		1995	21st Century Blues	Oohs Ahhs and Nice Guitars	acoustic protest rock
13		1995	Rob Lytle	Rob Lytle	adult contemporary ballad country folk protest singer-songwriter
81		1997	Shapur	Marg Bar Kolle Nezam	iranian protest rap	iranian # 35
37		1997	The Watts Prophets	The Black Voices: On The Street In Watts	los angeles poetry protest spoken word
85		1997-01-03	Grup Yorum	Marslarimiz	turkish folk
61		1998	Lisa Sunshine	Hello Sunshine	alternative blues diy folk folk rock philadelphia protest	philadelphia # 40
51		1998	Various Artists	Quella Sera A Milano Era Caldo - Antologia della canzone in Italia 2	italiano protest
66		1998	Various Artists	Avanti Popolo Alla Riscossa - Antologia della canzone socialista in Italia	protest
80		1998	Various Artists	Don't Mourn-Organize!: Songs of Labor Songwriter Joe Hill	folk protest
74		1998-01-09	Grup Yorum	Yürek Çagrisi	turkish folk
8		1999	The Molotov	Manifesto	australia female fronted metal hard rock metal protest punk rock rock
65		1999	Grup Özgürlük	Komün Şarkıları	german protest turkish
94		2002	The Coup	Steal This Double Album	conscious hip hop funk hardcore hip hop hip-hop protest sampling underground hip-hop west coast hip hop	hardcore hip hop # 5 sampling # 11 conscious hip hop # 20 west coast hip hop # 79
4		2004	Various Artists	Forces Favourites - 12 SOngs by SOuth Africans Supporting the End Conscription Campaign	protest
40		2004	John Mccutcheon	Stand Up! Broadsides for Our Times	folk protest roots
62		2004-07-01	Infernal Noise Brigade	For Battery And Voice	protest
78		2005	Vic Sadot	Broadsides & Retrospectives	accordion americana blues blues rock electric guitar folk rock protest rock roots singer-songwriter soul spiritual	accordion # 55 electric guitar # 78
76		2005	Vic Sadot	Ride the Wind	americana blues rock protest roots
88		2005-02-15	Willy Mason	Oxygen	americana protest
87		2006	Filastine	Burn It	beat broken beat illbient jazz protest	broken beat # 47 beat # 66 illbient # 71
10		2006	Various Artists	Pietà l'è morta / fischia il vento (canti della resistenza in Italia)	italian italy protest
77		2006-04-26	Grup Yorum	Yildizlar Kusandik	turkish folk
92		2006-05-02	Neil Young	Living With War	rock
58		2007	Фронт	Фронт_2008 "За и против" (Pro et Contra)	alternative classic rock moscow protest rock russian russian alternative russian rock	russian alternative # 5 moscow # 41
53		2007-01-27	Neil Young	Living with War - "In the Beginning"	protest
82		2007-06	Gaia Consort	Vitus Dance	folk folk rock pagan protest psychedelic rock rock soft rock	pagan # 23
91		2007-08-31	No, Really	Rust
16		2008	Jon Fromer	Gonna Take Us All	folk protest roots san francisco singer-songwriter
20		2008	Verbal Terrorists	Small Axe	alternative rap grime hip-hop industrial hip hop protest rap underground hip-hop
14		2008-01-01	Ronald Mulero	...anarchy and love...	acoustic folk protest
2		2009	Kev Boyle	Palestine Grove	folk folk rock irish protest
29		2009	Various Artists	South African Freedom Songs	folk protest south africa traditional world
30		2009	Jennie Arnau	Occupy This Album	protest
96		2011-04-26	Swingin' Utters	Here, Under Protest
28		2011-10-12	Daniel Davies	Daniel Davies EP	folk folk rock protest
21		2011-11	Verbal Terrorists	The War On Terra	alternative rap grime hip-hop industrial hip hop protest rap underground hip-hop
19		2012	Margot	Il vespero vermiglio	italian protest
35		2012-03-19	Mitch Benn and The Distractions	Breaking Strings	comedy parody protest
73		2013-06-14	Mary Ocher	EDEN	ambient berlin experimental pop garage germany hamburg lo-fi protest	hamburg # 56
98		2014	Roy Harper	Stormcock (Remastered)	acoustic chamber folk folk rock progressive folk protest psychedelic folk singer-songwriter	psychedelic folk # 46 chamber folk # 63 progressive folk # 91
67		2014-05-27	Sophie Villy	Position	folk protest
100		2014-10-01	Kino	Последний герой	new wave post-punk protest
39		2015-06-15	Gülcan Altan	Devrim Şarkıları	protest turkish
46		2017-01-23	Mitch Benn	Breaking Strings	comedy parody protest
99		2017-06-02	Benjamin Booker	Witness	blues protest
93		2018	Grace Petrie	Queer as Folk	folk protest
90		2018-09-14	Low	Double Negative	post-industrial slowcore ambient pop	sadcore # 56 ambient pop # 57 slowcore # 60 glitch pop # 62 post-industrial # 94
89		2019	Çağrı Sinci	Çığlık	boom bap conscious hip hop jazz rap protest turkish	conscious hip hop # 6
31		2020-06-19	Terry Blade	Strange Fruit	acoustic baritone jazz piano protest	baritone # 60
95		2022-11-04	Against Me!	Vivada Vis	protest
15			Conscious Mentalism	The Conscious-Mentalism Mixtape	electronic hip-hop oregon poetry portland protest rap turntablism	oregon # 23
68			Bandiera rossa	Canti Anarchici	italiano italy protest	italiano # 21
1			Il Canzoniere delle Lame	Il prezzo del mondo: Canti politici-satirici sul caro-vita di Fausto Amodei	italian italiano italy protest
3			Il Canzoniere delle Lame	Il prezzo del mondo (Canti politici-satirici sul caro-vita di Fausto Amodei)	italiano italy protest
6			Bob A. Feldman	Biographical Folk Songs	folk protest roots singer-songwriter
12			Silence reflection	c0up13 p!x31$ 0f my h3@r7	protest
18			Karl Ramirez	Makibaka (Struggle)	pop protest rock
22			Isobelle et Jean Luc	May 1968 Reverberate	ambient electronica french protest
24			Latife	Latife	ethnic protest
25			Tadek feat. Roman Bosski	Niewygodna prawda	protest
26			Rafael Manríquez and Friends	¡Que Viva el Canto! Songs of Chile: Rafael Manríquez and Friends	folk latin protest traditional world
27			Bandiera rossa	Il Fascismo Non Passerà	italiano italy protest
32			Il Canzoniere delle Lame	Gli anni che cantano (A cura di Janna Carioli)	italian italy protest
33			DJ Infektial Blowjob!	Bring Back the Old Last.fm Remixes	protest
34			The Harrisburg Family Band	Rudhall Demos	alt-country alternative country americana folk protest singer-songwriter
38			Project Bluebird	Egyptian Violet	acoustic alternative folk native american protest
41			mice and rifles	Beginner's Luck	american anti-folk protest texas usa
44			BrokenJaraFingers	Where Did The Protest Songs All Go?	acoustic protest
47			Eal F. Skillz	Ben de Varım	protest rap turkish
48			Northern Git	Getting Worse in my Wardrobe	folk folk punk protest
49			Bandiera rossa	Italia in Lotta!	italiano italy protest
54			Ideal Standard	Communications Down	alternative british england folk piano protest rock
55			Bandiera rossa	Canti Antimperialisti	italiano italy protest
60			Ausdruck	Riddim sRagga	protest reggae
64			The Rorschach Audio	Movement Underground	protest rave
70			Peter Alsop & Friends	Ebenezer's Make Over	protest
71			BrokenJaraFingers	Songs Of Romance And Revolt	acoustic protest soft rock spiritual
72			Jaja00	BlackBolshevik	east coast hip hop experimental hip hop glitch hop hardcore hip hop protest sampling trap
84			Coro de la Libertad	Las Canciones del ¡no Pasarán!	protest
57			Ausdruck	O dwóch knutach, co ukradli SYR-DANZ

Related genres

• folk
• rock
• italy
• singer-songwriter
• acoustic
• italian
• folk rock
• italiano
• rap
• alternative