Bruce Springsteen adds Streets of Minneapolis to his protest music canon

Today on Commotion, Slate columnist Carl Wilson and podcaster Vish Khanna join guest host Radheyan Simonpillai to talk about ...

Bruce Springsteen’s Song About Minneapolis Follows a Long Tradition of Protest Songs—Here Are the 10 Most Powerful

Protest songs transform emotion into action, and Bruce Springsteen's anthem to Minneapolis is one in a long line of powerful ...

From ‘this machine kills fascists’ to ‘King Trump’s private army’: the art of protest music

Musicians are giving voice to the urgency of Minneapolis. America has a long history of political protest in song.

Bruce Springsteen’s Streets of Minneapolis: how digital circulation boosts the impact of a protest song

The singer’s song about the killings in Minneapolis translates private loss into a collective experience rapidly shared ...

From Bruce Springsteen on Minneapolis to CSNY on Kent State - a History of Instant Protest Songs

We trace the lineage of rapid-response songs, from Woody Guthrie and Nina Simone to Bruce Springsteen's quick turnaround on "Streets of Minneapolis" ...

Bruce Springsteen released the topical, anti-ICE track 'Streets of Minneapolis' today

The song is in the vein of such previous songs of his such as 'American Skin (41 Shots)' and 'We Take Care of Our Own' ...
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Bruce Springsteen’s new anti-ICE anthem is no ‘Blowin’ in the Wind.’ And that’s OK.

Bruce Springsteen’s new anti-ICE anthem isn’t quite as bad as Paul McCartney’s ghastly post-9/11 anthem “Freedom.” Not quite. Still, he’s arguably done more than any other major artist to speak out ...