Here are three recent, Australian protest songs: Protest songs are back, hitting our mainstream airwaves. Could this be an effect of social media? The 1960’s saw an explosion of protest songs which Marshall McLuhan saw as an effect of the new medium of television, which brought the Vietnam war ‘into our living rooms’ through the TV screen. No longer could we ignore what was happening – television collapsed the distance between nations, we were one human family and this violence affected all of us. Here are some of the anti-war protest songs from this era: Just like television, social media … Continue reading Protest Songs Are Back