In April 1966, Bob Dylan arrived in Stockholm as part of his controversial "electric" world tour, and a local interviewer asked him why he was no longer writing and performing protest songs.
She joined a small circle of New York-based intellectuals in support of the civil rights movement, speaking out against racism and injustice from her own platform, performing protest songs and writing a few of her own.
'Hands up, don't shoot,' is how people perform protests, but also people were yelling, 'I can't breathe.'" But as in the history of the black community, oppression and the circumstances surrounding it weren't the end of this portrayal.
Veteran songwriter Wolf Biermann, who was kicked out of the GDR in 1976, performed a protest song called Ermutigung (Encouragement) and took a number of swipes at politicians from Die Linke (the Left party), successors to East Germany's ruling party, the SED.
Her sentence was suspended because she had not performed the protest song with the others, which condemned President Vladimir Putin.
The military has been widely criticized for such reported tactics, and bands including Rage Against the Machine have performed in protest of Guantanamo prison. .
Thousands of musicians are expected to perform in protest this Friday in the Hague.
Grace was in Durham to perform in protest against North Carolina's controversial "bathroom bill", known commonly as HB2, which prevents transgender people from using bathrooms that do not correspond to their biological sex.
A young woman named Ezili, who described herself as a singer-actress-writer-composer, stopped by one afternoon to ask advice about how and where she might perform a protest song she'd written.
