Protest songs in the United States Tom Paxton ("Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation" - about the escalation of the war in Vietnam, "Jimmy Newman" – the story of a dying soldier, and "My Son John" – about a soldier who returns from war unable to describe what he's been through), among others. The first protest song to reach number one in the United States was P.F. Sloan's "Eve Of Destruction", performed by Barry McGuire in 1965. The civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s often used Negro spirituals as a source of protest, changing the religious lyrics to suit the political mood of the time.
Protest song singing songs 'We will win'<우리 승리하리라>, 'Freedom song'<해방가>, 'The child blowing flowers' <꽃피우는 아이> and so on and all of his song prevented from broadcasting. After he got out from Korean army, he wrote Heeuen, Yang's song 'Like the pine needles in wild grassland' <거치른 들판의 푸르른 솔잎처럼> and also wrote the song named 'The light in the factory' <공장의 불빛>. <nowiki>'People who're finding songs'[노래를 찾는 사람들] is the music group writing Korean protest songs in 1980~90s (known as 'Nochatsa'[노찾사]). There're many demonstrations against the Korean military dictatorship around Korean universities in 1980s, and since then, lots of protest songs