Harvard has offered "Modern Protest Literature: From Thomas Payne to Tupac".
"It represents the first time that British policing has examined modern protest in such a public way," Hughes said.
The highlight, Wedding, staples bubbling beats to lyrics that imply they're a modern protest band ("Leaders, we have none").
"The Keeping the Peace manual of guidance has reshaped the nature of modern protest policing, but we acknowledge that there is more work that we need to do.
It is all as misguided as a recent attempt to yank Hair out of its 1960s world and treat it as a modern protest musical.
At Harvard, you can study 'Modern Protest Literature: From Thomas Paine to Tupac', while the University of Washington offers 'The Textual Appeal of Tupac Shakur'.
But more important than any figures is what these protests represent: a focus for outrage, as networked and agile as modern protest demands, that can keep the issues simmering away.
Hopelessness has been hailed as a modern protest album, full of environmental bangers and cinematic crisis reports – some such as Drone Bomb Me sung from the perspective of a civilian, inviting a drone bomb strike like a lost lover.
Released on Welsh indie Peski last year and recently reissued by Heavenly, only a minority will understand this very modern protest album, but its motorik spin and soft synths recall Broadcast and Chromatics, and shimmer with universal magic.
Its bleakness contrasted starkly with the optimism that tended to feature in songs about New York (eg Take the A-Train), and it has barely dated: the sentiment would fit neatly into a modern protest song.
