00:00:03ever writing protest songs are people
00:00:05who i like to call 20th century pioneers
00:00:10for change a great example of this would
00:00:13be a woman who a lot of us potentially
00:00:16don’t know these days but her name is
00:00:18Julia Ward Howe and basically what these
00:00:22people did they didn’t seem too they
00:00:24don’t seem to have written a lot of
00:00:25their own music they tended to take
00:00:27songs that were kind of like a great
00:00:28American standards that everyone knew
00:00:30that everyone could sit along sing along
00:00:31to and they change the words now a great
00:00:34example of this is the suffrage song
00:00:37which is sung to the tune of America and
00:00:40and that’s a that’s that’s house own own
00:00:44song and why I find this so interesting
00:00:47is that these songs were used to
00:00:49motivate in rally people from many
00:00:51diverse backgrounds and culture all
00:00:52experiencing different type of
00:00:54oppressions and I really feel that
00:00:55they’re a precursor to for example a
00:00:58George Harrison or Neil Young who have
00:01:00their their farm aid in their Live Aid
00:01:02and their concert for Bangladesh which
00:01:04are really just all about raising
00:01:05awareness and saying hey you see what’s
00:01:07going on in the world this isn’t right
00:01:08and without these early 20th century
00:01:11kind of pioneers for change and without
00:01:13this like this early movement these
00:01:15later people wouldn’t have been possible
00:01:16which is why I really wanted to to
00:01:18single out a person like Julia Ward Howe
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