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Social Justice & Popular Music: Songs

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Songs

This page contains curated songs available on YouTube related to social justice, as well as information on CDs and vinyl records that can be found onsite at the Library & Archives. You can also enter your zip code into the WorldCat.org "Search Location" box to see what libraries near you may have this item available.

"American Skin" by Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band

"Baltimore" by Prince

"The Beast" by the Fugees

"Boys on Black Mopeds" by Sinead O'Connor

"Crime for Crime" by Ani DiFranco

"Fight the Power" by Public Enemy

"Freedom" by Beyonce feat. Kendrick Lamar

"Fuck Tha Police" by N.W.A.

"Hate the Police" by the Dicks

"Hell You Talmbout" by Janelle Monae, Women's March on Washington

"Love Me, I'm a Liberal" by Phil Ochs

"Make America Great Again" by Pussy Riot

"Mississippi Goddam" by Nina Simone

"Proud to Be Black" by Run-D.M.C.

"Respect" by Aretha Franklin

"Rhythm Nation" by Janet Jackson

"Nina Cried Power" by Hozier with Mavis Staples

"The Sleep of Reason" by Billy Bragg

"Tear the Fascists Down" by Woody Guthrie

"There but for Fortune" by Joan Baez

"The Times They Are A-Changin'" by Bob Dylan

"They Don't Care About Us" by Michael Jackson

"What's Going On" by Marvin Gaye

"Who Protects Us from You?" by Boogie Down Productions

CD & Vinyl Recordings

Be by Common
Call Number: CD COMMO BE 2005
Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood by Nina Simone
Call Number: CD SIMON-N DONT 1988
Equal Rights by Peter Tosh
Call Number: CD TOSH EQUA 2011
Freedom Highway by Staple Singers
Call Number: CD STAPL-S FREE 1991
It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back by Public Enemy
Call Number: CD PUBL-E IT 1988
Mermaid Avenue by Billy Bragg, Wilco
Call Number: CD BRAG MERM-COMP 2012
Mr. Love & Justice by Billy Bragg
Call Number: CD BRAG MIST 2008
Publication Date: 2008
Next stop is Vietnam [sound recording] : the war on record, 1961-2008
Call Number: BOX VAR NEXT-ST 2010
Publication Date: 2010
Raising Hell by Run-D.M.C.
Call Number: CD RUN-D RAIS 2005
Rising Down by Roots
Call Number: CD ROOT RISI 2008
Washington Square memoirs : the great urban folk boom, 1950-1970
Call Number: BOX VAR WASH-SQ 2001
Publication Date: 2001
We Shall Overcome: Recorded Live at his Historic Carnegie Hall Concert, June 8, 1963 by Pete Seeger
Call Number: VIN SEEG-P WE-S 1963
What's going on by Marvin Gaye
Call Number: CD GAYE WHAT 1986
Publication Date: 1986
Woody at 100 by Woody Guthrie
Call Number: CDB GUTH-W WOOD-100 2012

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