In 2014, a Rolling Stone poll declared Bob Dylan’s “Masters of War” the best protest song of our time. Recorded in April of 1963, during that fierce spell of racial and economic tumult, Dylan, in his folksy pragmatism, rages against the Cold War and the military industrial complex. “You play with my world/ Like it’s your little toy,” he sings. Hemmed in by social margins during the same era, the tenor of resistance for artists like Sam Cooke (“A Change Is Gonna Come”) and James Brown (“Say It Loud—I’m Black and I’m Proud”) was defined in anthems of anti-racism and self-pride. Out of the 1970 Kent State shootings—where the National Guard killed four students during a school protest—Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young recorded the stringent “Ohio.” Donald Glover’s trap gospel “This Is America” is a piece of trickster art that soundly rebukes the natural DNA of the protest song and constructs it into a freakish chronicle of imprisoned torment. In the dozen or so times I’ve watched the 4-minute video, which was released last Saturday and has already amassed nearly 50 million views on YouTube, I kept thinking how much it reminded me of Kara Walker’s grand Antebellum silhouettes, which… Read full this story
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