But “Streets of Minneapolis” is not Springsteen’s first protest song. Across his almost 60-year career, he has addressed war, racism, state-sponsored violence, economic anxiety, and the loss of civil ...

Bruce Springsteen wrote and recorded ‘Streets of Minneapolis’ within days of Alex Pretti’s killing, continuing a long ...

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Prisoners facing execution have made it into many songs, These four tracks movingly capture that dramatic scenario.

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For a genre that confronts the horrors of the present, the protest song of 2026 is curiously backward-looking.

Protest songs transform emotion into action, and Bruce Springsteen's anthem to Minneapolis is one in a long line of powerful ...

Protest requires people to take a stand and hold firm. Pop songs are designed to appeal across demographic lines. In music, ...

Clergy demonstrating against ICE in Minneapolis have turned to classic ‘freedom songs’ – the music associated with protests ...

Iron Maiden are one of the world’s most popular heavy-metal bands, and have been for close to 50 years. Naturally, decades of activity and a discography of 17 albums and countin ...

Although Kendrick Lamar and SZA walked away with the 2026 Grammy for Record of the Year for their song “luther”—which sampled ...