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Music and Activism

Library resources for the study of music in political and protest movements.

Music Websites for Recent Activist Movements

Music from the Arab Spring

Rap Songs of the Arab Spring at N.P.R.
Video of M.I.T. Wind Ensemble performing piece about Arab Spring
composed by Jamshied Sharifi, a Persian-America, first performed in March 2012

Music from Occupy Wall Street

“Beyond ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’: The Music of Occupy Wall Street,”
by Quinn Norton in Wired magazine of Dec. 30, 2011