33 Revolutions Per Minute: A History of Protest Songs by Dorian Lynskey – review

This ambitious history of protest songs suggests their best days are over. They can, of course, be recycled…Among the challengers hoping to keep the X Factor winner Matt Cardle from topping the charts last Christmas were a new recording of John Cage's "4'33" and "Liar Liar" by Captain Ska. The first was the work of a group calling themselves Cage Against the Machine, who were trying to replicate the success of 2009's campaign to make Rage Against the Machine's "Killing in the Name" Christmas N...

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