Wartime songs, or "ditties" (an old-fashioned term for poems with catchy tunes), create camaraderie among troops yearning for places, people, and things they've left behind. These tunes live long ...

The Civil Rights movement used music extensively, with songs like "People Get Ready" serving as anthems. Many protest songs from the 1960s remain relevant and are still sung at demonstrations today.

ROCHESTER — The Rochester Area Historical Society will sponsor the program, “Songs of the Civil War,” at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 16, in the Rochester Municipal Building, 300 W. Spring St. Doors open at ...

Civil war songs; sung by Frank Warner, with Jeff and Gerret Warner. Table of contents Old Abe Lincoln -- Battle of Bull Run -- Battle cry of freedom -- The twenty-third -- Marching along -- Bonnie ...

TWIN FALLS — The College of Southern Idaho’s Herrett Forum in February will focus on songs of the Civil War era. Presenter Bill Rossiter — who performed in coffeehouses in the 1960s and 70s and ...

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Not every great protest song is in your face or direct about its message. Some songwriters take a more poetic approach to singing anti-war songs. Let’s take a look at four tracks that are very much ...

Music played a key role in the civil rights movement. People marched to freedom songs while artists from Sam Cooke to Bob Dylan took the message to the masses in recordings as enduring as "A Change is ...