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The deadly federal occupation of Minneapolis is leaving a cultural mark on America \u2014 with an upwelling of new protest music. The artists range from stadium acts to TikTok troubadours to the protesters themselves. They are producing songs that celebrate solidarity, perseverance, and bravery, even in the face of bloodshed.<\/p>\n
The emergence of this new songbook is, in some respects, a surprise. When Trump came back to power last year, many musicians appeared reticent to engage in overtly political songwriting. My brilliant colleague Meredith Blake marked that troubling silence in a piece headlined: \u201c<\/span>Where is the great anti-Trump protest song<\/a>?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n But the brutal street slayings of the poet and mother Renee Good and of the Veterans Affairs nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis \u2014 amid the broader, violent abuses of ICE and the Border Patrol \u2014 have altered the moral and artistic calculus.<\/p>\n Below, we survey artists who are denouncing the Trump regime and the presence of its roving <\/span>paramilitary gangs<\/a> on the streets of the Twin Cities \u2014 and wherever the fear of mass deportation hangs heaviest.<\/span><\/p>\n Billy Bragg<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cCity of Heroes\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n