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The 1920s and 30s also saw a marked rise in the number of songs which protested against racial discrimination, such as Fats Waller's "(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue" in 1929, and the anti-lynching song "Strange Fruit" by Lewis Allan and performed and recorded by Billie Holiday, which contains the lyrics "Southern trees bear strange ...
Sam Cooke had first-hand experience with such racial discrimination and violence in the South. He’d spent at least part of his life in the state of Mississippi, and during his music tours in the ...
Songs about racism and xenophobia (3 C, 264 P) B. Songs about black people (9 C, 31 P) E. Songs about East Asian people (10 P) I. Songs about indigenous peoples (1 C ...
It rails against racism, the Jim Crow laws, and the conditions of contemporary African Americans in the southern United States. The song was recorded in December 1938 for the Library of Congress and re-recorded in 1939 for commercial release. "The Bourgeois Blues" is regarded as one of Lead Belly's best original works, but it also drew controversy.
The actress, who is currently starring in the “Star Wars” series, “The Acolyte,” released a song titled “Discourse,” which addresses the “intolerable racism” she has experienced.
"I'm Not Racist" is a song by American hip hop recording artist Joyner Lucas, released on November 28, 2017, by Atlantic Records. It features a heated discussion about race and society from the perspective of a white man and a black man. Lucas has said that the song's lyrics represent the uncomfortable race talk that people shy away from. [5]
The song was later placed on the publications year-end list of the best songs. [4] Rolling Stone characterized the track as "a powerful song about the strife of the African American community", and named it one of the "most powerful new protest anthems to come out of the Black Lives Matter era". [ 5 ]