Higginson had heard the songs in camps and on marches with colored soldiers. 3 Singing at contraband camps helped former slaves navigate the gray area between slavery and freedom. Members of the ...

These songs and chants of freedom, sung by protestors, activists, and civil rights leaders during the 1950s and 1960s, have now been taken up anew in "Soundtrack" by such contemporary performers ...

Domingos 'Berliku' Gabriel was a guerilla fighter and fought for East Timor's freedom. When he was not fighting, he wrote songs. "As I was always singing, our commander Xanana Gusmão called me ...

The new film No Direction Home captures Bob Dylan in a period of transition, moving away from the acoustic-based folk songs on his earliest recordings into the incendiary blues-rock songs that would ...

Decades after Soskin first started writing these powerful songs, her music is reaching audiences beyond family and longtime friends through the documentary (view the trailer below) and a new musical, ...

Murundak charts one of the most significant music events in Australian Indigenous history as the Black Arm Band draws on the power of protest song to call for freedom in a country trying to reconcile ...