Folk music also played an influential role in environmental political efforts and anti-war protests during the United States' engagement in Vietnam. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings playlists, Sounds ...

Protest songs are of their nature tied to immediate context — be it a war, economic conditions ... predominantly associated with the 1960s, and one can aurally anticipate them when the relevant ...

The 1960s was a time of change and innovation. The Civil Rights Movement was fighting racial segregation, pacifists were protesting the Vietnam War ... by sweet pop songs and well-dressed ...

I don’t even know if it’s a protest song, it’s a song ... as an old man of the early 1960s when we all thought we were under the cloud of nuclear war and Vietnam, the anger and the fury ...