Bruce Springsteen adds Streets of Minneapolis to his protest music canon

Today on Commotion, Slate columnist Carl Wilson and podcaster Vish Khanna join guest host Radheyan Simonpillai to talk about ...
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Bruce Springsteen’s new anti-ICE anthem is no ‘Blowin’ in the Wind.’ And that’s OK.

Bruce Springsteen’s anti-ICE anthem "Streets of Minneapolis” dropped on YouTube after the deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. I'll take it.

From ‘this machine kills fascists’ to ‘King Trump’s private army’: the art of protest music

Musicians are giving voice to the urgency of Minneapolis. America has a long history of political protest in song.

Bruce Springsteen’s Streets of Minneapolis: how digital circulation boosts the impact of a protest song

The singer’s song about the killings in Minneapolis translates private loss into a collective experience rapidly shared ...

Bruce Springsteen’s Song About Minneapolis Follows a Long Tradition of Protest Songs—Here Are the 10 Most Powerful

Protest songs transform emotion into action, and Bruce Springsteen's anthem to Minneapolis is one in a long line of powerful ...

Bruce Springsteen releases protest song ‘Streets of Minneapolis’

In his most direct protest song in a long career of activism, Bruce Springsteen is singing about the ICE occupation in an incendiary new tune “Streets of Minneapolis,” which he posted on YouTube on ...

From Bruce Springsteen on Minneapolis to CSNY on Kent State - a History of Instant Protest Songs

We trace the lineage of rapid-response songs, from Woody Guthrie and Nina Simone to Bruce Springsteen's quick turnaround on "Streets of Minneapolis" ...
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10 of Bruce Springsteen’s Strongest Political Songs

Not long after that, Springsteen made good on his word by releasing " Streets of Minneapolis ," a new song inspired by the ...

Is protest music coming back? From Bad Bunny to Bruce Springsteen, Grammys to the Super Bowl, the answer seems to be yes

Bad Bunny vows to protest with love. Bruce Springsteen has opted for a more confrontational approach. Both are part of a growing wave of pop-music dissent aimed at what critics see as overreach by the ...