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The Staple Singers: Freedom Highway Complete

by Nenad Georgievski
September 27, 2015

Music has always been the perfect medium over which people expressed their dissatisfaction and protested social injustices. As such it has a tremendous ability to show the world from the perspective of the oppressed. During the '60s in US the revival of protest music was propelled as a reaction to the social changes and turmoils during that turbulent and dark period, from the civil rights movement to anti war movement. A myriad of musicians have used their music to address ...