Our Subversive Voice: The History and Politics of English Protest Songs, 1600–2020

Our Subversive Voice establishes the protest song as a mode of political communication. Covering five centuries in England’s history, from street ballads and art song to grime, hymns, music hall, and punk, this book explores the causes that protest songs adopt, the conditions that give rise to them, and the institutions that have suppressed them.

• | Author: Alan Finlayson, Oskar Cox Jensen, Matthew Worley, John Street, Angela McShane
• | Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 11, 2025
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• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9780228023722
• | ISBN-10: 0228023726