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A piece of music, normally written about a political subject and intended to drive home some message. Will inevitably be [[Anvilicious]], [[Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped|not that there's anything]] [[Tropes Are Not Bad|wrong with that]]. Since they are also used to [[Educational Song|educate people]], [[Band of Brothers|unite them in the cause]], and should be easy to learn, they are often prime candidates for a rousing [[Crowd Song]] or an [[Audience Participation Song]].
 
Name a recording artist from between 1964 and 1978.; Chanceschances are he, she, or they have at least one protest song, and it's a folk song about the Vietnam War. More recently, common subjects include racism (especially police racism and profiling), the Iraq War, corruption, censorship, environmental issues, and big governments controlling lives. [[Lyrical Dissonance]] often arises when a director or a political candidate fails to appreciate that a sufficiently-subtle protest song is not in fact the upbeat anthem he believes it to be.<ref>For example, John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign used [[John Mellencamp]]'s song "Pink Houses", completely missing the point that Mellencamp was protesting against the things that McCain stood for.</ref>
 
This sort of music is at least [[Older Than Steam]], and may well be older still.
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