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Article: Sing Now, Or Hold Your Peace: Where are the new protest songs?
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- February 26, 2003
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`Bl of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today)," the Temptations' apocalyptic 1970 hit, recently popped up on a local oldies station and set my mind a-stewing. That a protest song railing against war, racism, rising unemployment and an indifferent government should still be deeply resonant, 33 years after it was first recorded, was sad enough. But what really depressed me was that the song dissected the state of our nation far more effectively than anything currently on MTV, commercial radio or the Billboard charts.
Where are the new protest songs? Over a million Americans have already taken to the streets to protest President Bush's war on Iraq, so there's clearly an audience for ...
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