Songs of Social Protest is a comprehensive companion guide to music and social protest globally. Bringing together scholars from a range of fields it explores a wide range of examples of and contexts for songs and their performance that have been deployed as part of local regional and global social protest movements both in historical and contemporary times. Topics covered includeAestheticsAuthenticityAfrican American MusicAnticapitalismCommunity ampamp Collective MovementsCounterhegemonic Discourses Critical PedagogyFolk MusicIdentityMemoryPerformancePopular CultureBy placing historical approaches alongside cuttingedge ethnography philosophical excursions alongside sociopolitical and economic perspectives and cultural context alongside detailed musicological textual and performance analysis Songs of Social Protest offers a dynamic resource for scholars and students exploring song and singing as a form of protest.