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Pascarella: Protest songs are not simply cultural accessories to events. They are historical artifacts, rhetorical arguments and emotional archives.

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The 1970s carried the momentum of the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War’s final years, Watergate, economic turmoil, and second-wave feminism. Music did more than entertain during that decade. It ...