Joan Baez: where are new protest songs?

07 Dec 24 - 07:43 AM (#4213058)
Subject: Joan Baez: where are new protest songs?
From: Thompson

Joan Baez interviewed in The Irish Times:

She worries that there aren’t enough new protest songs. “The different movements, the women’s, the LGBTQ movement, they’re still using Bob Dylan songs. There are good songs out there but that new anthem has not been written.”

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07 Dec 24 - 08:24 AM (#4213059)
Subject: RE: Joan Baez: where are new protest songs?
From: mayomick

Just like a Woman perhaps? Otherwise I can't think of any Bob Dylan song ever being sung by the LBGTQ movement

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07 Dec 24 - 09:54 AM (#4213063)
Subject: RE: Joan Baez: where are new protest songs?
From: DaveRo

Maybe there are 'protest songs' in genres she (and I) are unfamiliar with - rap for example. Or in the languages of the protesters, such as Gaeilge

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08 Dec 24 - 07:24 PM (#4213154)
Subject: RE: Joan Baez: where are new protest songs?
From: Thompson

Dylan sang He's Funny That Way on the Pride EP Universal Love, and wrote Jimmy Berman (Gay Lib Rag) about Allen Ginsberg besotted by an 18-year-old.

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09 Dec 24 - 10:08 AM (#4213220)
Subject: RE: Joan Baez: where are new protest songs?
From: GUEST,Berkshire Haddaway

Not folk, but "Alright" by Kendrick Lamar is the most recently released song I've heard used in a protest context

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10 Dec 24 - 02:32 PM (#4213330)
Subject: RE: Joan Baez: where are new protest songs?
From: Mark Ross

Listen to David Rovics who lives in Portland, Oregon, he reminds me of Phil Ochs.

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10 Dec 24 - 03:55 PM (#4213336)
Subject: RE: Joan Baez: where are new protest songs?
From: GUEST,Phil d'Conch

My, my, my, look how the turns have tabled… Vu Déjà … you've seen it all before but... from the other side of the mirror.

Baez & Dylan are so-called 'lefties.' Their last national election ran a former prosecutor on a law & order ticket steeped in enough big money, back room machinations to make Machiavelli blush.

The pride song EP mentioned above was released by ultra-mega-capitalist-multi-national Sony Music Entertainment (Legacy.) Dylan is halfway to billionaire by now.

They are the “Establishment” defending against the criminals & outlaws on the so-called 'right' trying their very best to blow it all up and tear it all down.

Protest? The next Bob Dylan? What the left needs now is the next Kate Smith & Barry Saddler.

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11 Dec 24 - 07:25 AM (#4213368)
Subject: RE: Joan Baez: where are new protest songs?
From: GUEST,PHJim

There are lots of modern protest songs Joan.

A modern protest song

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11 Dec 24 - 02:32 PM (#4213385)
Subject: RE: Joan Baez: where are new protest songs?
From: Mrrzy

Joan Baez called What Have They Done To The Rain "the gentlest protest song I know" - so maybe we could rethink some modern songs as protests? Says I, who live under a rock, musically, listening to mp3's of my parents' music...

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11 Dec 24 - 05:17 PM (#4213400)
Subject: RE: Joan Baez: where are new protest songs?
From: Jack Campin

My Blood Is Palestinian

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11 Dec 24 - 06:39 PM (#4213401)
Subject: RE: Joan Baez: where are new protest songs?
From: pattyClink

Here ya go, Joan.

This is not a direct link but I don't know if that's worse than putting in a tiktok link. Mudcat authorities please correct if wrong.

There ain't no you, in United Health

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12 Dec 24 - 03:38 AM (#4213405)
Subject: RE: Joan Baez: where are new protest songs?
From: Thompson

That's fantastic, pattyClink. What a singer, what a song.

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12 Dec 24 - 03:59 AM (#4213407)
Subject: RE: Joan Baez: where are new protest songs?
From: Acorn4

The songs of Grace Petrie definitely fit the bill.

A wordsmith in the true tradition of protest:-

https://www.gracepetrie.com/

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14 Dec 24 - 12:05 AM (#4213479)
Subject: RE: Joan Baez: where are new protest songs?
From: GUEST

Check out Christy Moore’s new album

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14 Dec 24 - 03:42 AM (#4213485)
Subject: RE: Joan Baez: where are new protest songs?
From: Thompson

Gosh, yes; just played Cumann na Mná and was startled at the happy history lesson!

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11 Sep 25 - 01:44 PM (#4228422)
Subject: RE: Joan Baez: where are new protest songs?
From: Felipa

Thompson, watch your grammar - don't you mean "Cumann na mBan"?

Joan Baez is doing something rather different now, a singing-dancing role in a production at a circus in Oakland California. It appears different from the traditional circus I'm familiar with.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/joan-baez-soiled-dove-21033457.php

re protests, in the interview she says "all the risks are getting so dire that I wouldn't ask a kid to take part in a demonstration right now."

also:
Q: In the kinds of projects that you've been saying yes to these days — like being on John Mulaney's show, your poetry collection and now “The Soiled Dove” — do you see a pattern?

A: Everything is shifted now with the change in politics. They're so, so dire that it affects everything that everybody says and does — if they're aware.

This circus is irreverent, and it’s gaudy. It's about laughter and joy, which are really not part of the program of our dear leaders. Mark Twain said that “The human race has only one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.”

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