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For some marginalized groups, the simple act of creating music at all can be a form of speaking out against an unjust world. Some of these songs decry oppression and demand justice, others are prayers for positive change; some grab you by the shoulders and shout in your face, others are personal, private attempts to subtly embody the contradictory nature of political struggle and change from the inside.

Nuclear anxiety never sounded so funky.

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The song truly became a mutually assured dance-floor destructor after it was remixed by Sleeping Bag Records owner and dance-music visionary Arthur Russell. When most people think of resistance, they think of taking the streets. What better way to protest Reaganism, Thatcherism, racism, nuclear anxiety, and the creep of fascism than with a raucous synth-pop hit that bleeps by at bpm?

In , Sydney college-rock band Midnight Oil and Aboriginal country-rock group Warumpi Band toured the Australian continent, bringing their music to some of its most remote and isolated settlements. The ecstatic song teams his mix of trauma and hope with electric jazz-funk, Zora Neale Hurston references, and a shining chorus. Olympia, Washington, queercore rebels Team Dresch break down the intolerance, confusion, and daily hassle of lesbian life in the Nineties in this jangle-punk cry to be heard.

In the deluge of anti-George Bush songs that appeared during W. The big bang of anarchist punk, Essex County collective Crass were outspoken, profane, militaristic, Dadaist, and doggedly do-it-yourself Brits. Led by Mexican singer-songwriter Natalia Lafourcade and her chicken-scratching cuatro , this joyous gathering of Mexican indie-pop musicians created the sound of the YoSoy movement in