Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War This concept of intimate involvement reached new heights in May 1968 when the "Composers and Musicians for Peace" concert was staged in New York. As the war continued, and with the new media coverage, the movement snowballed and popular music reflected this. As early as the summer of 1965, music-based protest against the American involvement in Southeast Asia began with works like P. F. Sloan's folk rock song "Eve of Destruction", recorded by Barry McGuire as one of the earliest musical protests against the Vietnam War. A key figure on the rock end of the antiwar spectrum was Jimi Hendrix
Protest song spe is explicitly in favour of an Estonian identity. Finland has a long tradition of socialist and communist protest songs beginning in years before Finnish Civil War, most of which were imported and translated from Soviet Russia. Notably, right-wing protest songs are completely absent in contrast to Estonian tradition and widely considered socially unacceptable. In the 21st century the socialist protest song tradition is continued by rap artists and to lesser degree in more traditional Taistoist form by KOM-theatre choir. "The Internationale" (""L'Internationale"" in French) is a socialist, anarchist, communist, and social-democratic anthem. "The Internationale" became the anthem of international