📚 Protest Songs

Melody with a brief: the labour canon, the sixties revival, and the singing movements they fed.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject protest songs in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	When the Spirit Says Sing!	Kerran L. Sanger	1995	7
	American Folksongs of Protest	John Greenway	1953	5
	The resisting muse	Ian Peddie	2005	5
	The Canadian Orange minstrel for 1860	McBride, Robert	1860	4
	Protest	Frederik Hetmann	1967	3
	Für meine Genossen	Wolf Biermann	1972	3
	Florilège de la chanson révolutionnaire	Robert Brécy	1978	3
	Quilapayun	Eduardo Carrasco	1988	3
	Pistol Packin' Mama	Shelly Romalis	1998	3
	Songs of Social Protest	Aileen Dillane	2018	3
	Socialist songs with music	Charles H. Kerr	1902	2
	Freedom is a constant struggle	Guy Carawan	1968	2
	Sing a song of social significance	R. Serge Denisoff	1972	2
	Toda Violeta Parra	Violeta Parra	1975	2
	Silvio Rodríguez	Silvio Rodríguez	1985	2
	Nové vlastenecké písně Karla Havlíčka Borovského	Ludvík Vaculík	1989	2
	Reprezentant Lůzy	Jiří Dědeček	1992	2
	Bob Marley - Songs of Freedom	Bob Marley	1992	2
	Poesia e política nas canções de Bob Dylan e Chico Buarque	Ligia Vieira Cesar	1993	2
	Avances de investigación--música	Américo Portella Egúsquiza	1998	2
	The People United Will Never Be Defeated	Frederic Rzewski	2005	2
	Messages of dissent	Darling, Charles W.	2005	2
	Nās al-Ghīwān	Abdelhaï Sadiq	2006	2
	Troubadours & troublemakers	Kevin Comtois	2014	2
	Melodies of transition	Caroline Louisa Leonard Goodenough	1900	1
	Melodies of the people	Caroline Louisa Leonard Goodenough	1900	1
	Socialist songs	Charles H. Kerr	1900	1
	Songs of rebellion	Covington Hall	1915	1
	Chants révolutionnaires de divers pays	Fédération musicale populaire	1930	1
	Songs of Phil Ochs	Phil Ochs	1964	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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