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Ibrahim Qashoush (Arabic: إبراهيم قاشوش; born September 3, 1977 – died July 3 or July 4, 2011) was a prominent Syrian protest singer active during the civil uprising phase of the Syrian Civil War. Posthumously, international media ascribed him the role of a leading author and singer of protest songs in his home city. He became a ...
Philip David Ochs (/ ˈ oʊ k s /; December 19, 1940 – April 9, 1976) was an American songwriter, protest singer (or, as he preferred, "topical singer"), and political activist. Ochs was known for his sharp wit, sardonic humor, and political commentary. He wrote approximately 200 songs [1] throughout the 1960s and 1970s, and released eight ...
"The Protest Singer: Pete Seeger and American folk music," The New Yorker, April 9, 2006, pp. 44–53. Wilkinson, Alec (2009). The Protest Singer: An Intimate Portrait of Pete Seeger. New York: Vintage Books. ISBN 978-0307390981. Winkler, Allan M. (2009). To Everything There Is a Season: Pete Seeger and the Power of Song. Oxford [Oxfordshire ...
"Outside of a Small Circle of Friends" is a song by Phil Ochs, a U.S. protest singer from the 1960s. "Outside of a Small Circle of Friends", which was originally released on Ochs' 1967 album Pleasures of the Harbor, became one of Ochs' most popular songs.
The Last Protest Singer is a posthumously produced album by the American singer-songwriter Harry Chapin, released in 1988. Chapin had been working on the album when he died in 1981. Up to 18 songs were on the master tape to a greater or lesser extent. Eleven of these were far enough advanced to create this album.
Anne Feeney (July 1, 1951 – February 3, 2021) was an American folk musician, singer-songwriter, political activist and attorney. She began her career in 1969 as a student activist playing a Phil Ochs song at a Vietnam War protest, one of many causes she embraced.
Sosa disliked being identified as a protest singer. [13] [14] While she was outright in her political stances, Sosa said the following on the position of the artist: “An artist isn’t political in the party political sense – they have a constituency, which is their public – it is the poetry that matters most of all.”
A third album, Memories, was issued in 1968, after his death. In early 1966, Richard and Mimi Fariña appeared as the sole guests on Episode 16 of Pete Seeger's short-lived UHF television program Rainbow Quest. [12] Fariña, like Dylan and others of this time, was considered a protest singer, and several