Songs of Protest

Locations
Call Number: CD Rock Songs
On Shelf At: Malletts Creek Branch, Westgate Branch

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Malletts Adult A/V 2-week checkout	CD Rock Songs	2-week checkout	On Shelf
Westgate Adult A/V 2-week checkout	CD Rock Songs	2-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown 3rd Floor, CDs 2-week checkout	CD Rock Songs	2-week checkout	Due 05-09-2024

All selections previously released.
Compact disc.
Program notes inserted in container.
Where have all the flowers gone / Seeger (The Kingston Trio) -- Eve of destruction / Sloan (Barry McGuire) -- With God on our side / Dylan (Manfred Mann) -- Universal soldier / Sainte-Marie (Donovan) -- Laugh at me / Bono (Sonny) -- Let me be / Sloan (The Turtles) -- It's good news week / King (Hedgehoppers Anonymous -- I ain't marchin' anymore / Ochs (Phil Ochs) -- The Fish cheer/I-feel-like-I'm-fixin'-to-die rag / McDonald (Country Joe & The Fish) -- People got to be free / Cavaliere ; Brigati (The Rascals) -- Sky pilot / Burdon ; Briggs ; Weider ; Jenkins ; McCulloch (Eric Burdon & The Animals) -- Society's child / Ian (Janis Ian) -- Abraham, Martin and John / Holler (Dion) -- Ball of confusion / Whitfield ; Strong (The Temptations) -- War / Whitfield ; Strong (Edwin Starr) -- Signs / Thomas (Five Man Electrical Band).

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

The Sound of the Angry Sixties submitted by Meginator on August 11, 2021, 5:06pm This collection of protest songs dates from the 1960s; as such, it features a lot of folk and pop music with the era’s familiar production qualities and vocal styles. The lyrical content focuses, usurprisingly, on anti-war sentiments (both generally and specifically in relation to Southeast Asia) and on uncertainty. I was surprised to find more of a sense of mourning and resignation than anger, though the words are no less poignant for it (this is most evident in Country Joe & the Fish’s classic “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die-Rag”, which trades heavily in sarcasm and irony). The songs are a mix of familiar classics (with Edwin Starr’s “War” and Barry McGuire’s “Eve of Destruction” foremost among these) and lesser-known recordings, including the minor hit that gave me my senior high school yearbook quote. Overall, this album offers a good musical introduction to the protest music of the 1960s even if it omits such important artists as Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, among many others.