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Animal rights has been a subject of both popular and independent music since the 1970s. [1] Associated with the environmentalist musical counterculture of the previous decade, animal rights songs of the 1970s were influenced by the passage of animal protection laws and the 1975 book Animal Liberation. [1]
Environmentalism has been a theme and cultural trend in popular music. Ecomusicologists (musicologists and ethnomusicologists focusing on music and environmental issues) and music educators are increasingly emphasizing the intersections of music and nature, and the role of music in ecological activism.
Saltwater (Julian Lennon song) Sámiid ædnan; Save the World (George Harrison song) Self-Immolate (song) Seminole Wind (song) Send It On (Disney song) Shapes of Things; Signs (Five Man Electrical Band song) Sink, Florida, Sink; So Long, It's Been Good to Know Yuh; Sunday (Foals song) Superfast Jellyfish; Supernature (song) Surf's Up (album)
Ray Davies composed "The Village Green Preservation Society" around August 1968, after the other eleven songs for the Kinks' next album had been recorded. In a contemporary interview, he explained that the song's central inspiration spawned from a conversation where someone suggested that the Kinks had been preserving "nice things from the past", [5] and he hoped to capture the idea within a ...
Protest songs in the United States are a tradition that dates back to the early 18th century and have persisted and evolved as an aspect of American culture through the present day. Many American social movements have inspired protest songs spanning a variety of musical genres including but not limited to rap , folk , rock , and pop music.
Benigno S. Aquino, Jr. Award for Social Artistry (Joey Ayala) has taught the young generations through his well-celebrated songs, the essence of communion and community, of compassion and service, and of human dignity. He exemplified through his most ordinary actions what it means to be a man of God and a man for others.
The song appears on an album of the same name released by Rogers in 1981, and is considered one of the classic songs in Canadian music history. In the 2005 CBC Radio One series 50 Tracks: The Canadian Version , "Northwest Passage" ranked fourth, behind only Neil Young 's " Heart of Gold ", Barenaked Ladies ' " If I Had $1,000,000 " and Ian and ...
Some anti-war songs lament aspects of wars, while others patronize war.Most promote peace in some form, while others sing out against specific armed conflicts. Still others depict the physical and psychological destruction that warfare causes to soldiers, innocent civilians, and humanity as a whole.