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And that’s just my folk-music-biased corner of the music world. There’s a lot more out there. 12/12

Amy Ray, Ben Harper, Brandi Carlile, Dessa, Faithless (Mass Destruction), Michael Franti (Hey World), Rhiannon Giddens. 11/12

For your next article, I’d like to suggest some artists: Ana Tijoux (1977, Somos Sur), Anais Mitchell (Hadestown), A Tribe Called Red, 10/12

Take MILCK’s “Quiet” as an example if you really need something that “went viral.” 9/12 youtube.com/watch?v=5M1WJ48_…

Protest songs are for singing together with strangers when you are all afraid and discouraged and need something to hope for. 8/12

Protest songs are not for topping the charts. 7/12

“If I Had a Hammer” made it to the top 10 in '62 when Peter Paul and Mary covered it, but that was 13 yrs after Seeger wrote it in '42. 6/11

Sure the top 40 is dominated by dance songs. But was Woody Guthrie commercially successful in the 40s? 5/11

when Hamilton has popularized a song about the Federalist Papers! youtube.com/watch?v=_yHEX9zx… 4/11

How can you possibly conclude that “there’s nothing that deals with the waist up” 3/11

It’s just not true that “there’s no music” that addresses “this period we are in… of social disruption.” 2/10

As one of your younger subscribers, I was disappointed by this article. Please reach beyond the tired “kids these days” trope. 1/10