Politics in Music

Trapt are now in the market for a new drummer, after Michael Smith decided to quit the band, over "primarily poilitical" reasons. In a statement, which you can read in full below, Smith writes “There ...

Inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris was definitely memorable, but not for politics. It was the music.

Election time in Bengal is round the corner, and almost every party is looking for celebrity candidates, a trick that never fails. Playback superstar of the nineties Kumar Sanu, who joined Bharatiya ...

A multimedia collaboration from the UConn School of Fine Arts asks searching questions about values following a divisive election.

Her new film brought her back to D.C. for the story of Ahmet and Nesuhi Ertegun, the brothers behind Atlantic Records, and their early years as sons of Turkish ambassador Mehmet M ...

The inherent speed and anger and rawness of it really lends itself to protest music,” said Meyer, who also leads the veteran L.A. punk band The Streetwalkin’ Cheetahs and is a member of James ...

The Grammy-winning Las Vegas rockers tend to be a punchline to music critics ... Still, it’s illustrative of politics in the social media age. We’re not used to seeing politicians living ...

Those were just a few of her musical achievements. Inseparable from Joan Baez' music was her political activism: In 1963, she marched side by side with Martin Luther King against racial segregation.

Nearly three months after releasing her first political track, “Commander in Chief,” Lovato, 28, teased she intends to drop more politically inspired music after Wednesday’s takeover of the ...

This book is not about music or politics. It is about the 'and' that binds them together. How do these fields intersect, and what theories and approaches can help us understand their interactions? How ...