Out of the many Vietnam War protests she performed at in the 1960s and 1970s, Judy Collins can never forget one in Washington, D.C., where she stood before thousands and sang Bob Dylan's “Masters of ...

War, as it turns out, is good for absolutely nothing when it comes to anti-war songs. At the risk of sounding like Bill O’Reilly (who, no doubt, listens only to Wagner), it’s time to protest the ...

Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman John Fogerty performs in 2007 in Los Angeles. (Mark J. Terrill/AP) Editor’s note: April 30, 2025, marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the end of ...

Alex Garland’s incendiary “Civil War” is now in theaters, and it’s sure to get people talking. The film imagines a near-future where America is engaged in another Civil War, this time with multiple ...

Music has never been just entertainment. Throughout decades, certain songs have served as catalysts for political movements, ...

Perhaps ironically, the tragedy and courage of the Ukrainians puts me in mind of Russian songs about soldiers and soldiering. I can't think of any great modern American songs about this (I'm not ...

As young as he was, John Bush Jones remembers World War II on the home front. He was 5 at war’s end but has vivid memories of meals under rationing, bombers dropping war-bond leaflets over his Chicago ...

Not every great protest song is in your face or direct about its message. Some songwriters take a more poetic approach to singing anti-war songs. Let’s take a look at four tracks that are very much ...

Donald Trump was hit with backlash online after he shared a video featuring footage of the U.S. military raid in Venezuela ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

Last week the war song bottleneck appeared to be broken. Three were going great guns: > Lyricist Frank Loesser’s Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition! (inspired by a Navy Chaplain’s historic remark ...