Widespread distress (the song was 'pitiful', the musicians in 'great grief') leads 'everybody' ('the common people', 'the musicians') to rise up in musical protest (theprotestsong, the burial march).
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The song is aprotestsongon the evils of prejudice and bullying.
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It is considered an early example of aprotestsong.
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Rock music inherited the folk tradition ofprotestsong, making political statements on subjects such as war, religion, poverty, civil rights, justice and the environment.
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We couldn't really make aprotestsongout of itwe kind of snuck it in.
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The verses refer to the crisis of the 1930, with an early form ofprotestsongand the inevitable appeal to the lunfardo.
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This is aprotestsong, more ironic than angry perhaps, but a protest nonetheless.
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On the other hand, once a revolution is established, some of the aspects ofprotestsongmay be considered counter-revolutionary.
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Another says it added much-needed humour to theprotestsonggenre.
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The song can be narrowly categorized as an anti-recruiting song, a specific form of anti-war song, and more broadly as aprotestsong.
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Secondly, he explained that it is not an anti-nuclearprotestsong"per se" despite the nuclear imagery at the end of the video.
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It is an anti-warprotestsongwritten from the viewpoint of a female whose partner has gone off to war.
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It is aprotestsongon war, referring to all war as civil war and stating that war only feeds the rich while it buries the poor.
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The song deals with the themes of drugs and alcohol; in thisprotestsong, the narrator addresses a friend, trying to make him think about the dangers of these substances.
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Their protest songs tempted him to become a musician.
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