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• Protest songs are usually created when people get fed up with the status quo and sing about it. • They are usually written to be part of a movement for cultural or political change, and to stimulate that movement by drawing people together and inspiring them to take action or reflect. • The earliest protest songs can go as far back as the founding of America. • It is possible that the first protest song sung by American soldiers was Free America by Joseph Warren. • Yankee Doodle also finds its roots in this era. It originated as a song sung by British soldiers to mock the Americans. • When the Civil War ended, America became divided by class and race. Protest songs evolved with the music of the early 20th century. • Protest songs developed from the simple, easy-to-learn Civil War-era songs to more complex art at the same time as electrical music. • Billie Holiday’s 1939 song, Strange Fruit, is credited as being the first protest song to take an art form. • 1960s: significant ...

Michel Gondry is a French director, screenwriter, and producer known for his inventive visual style and distinctive manipulation of mine-en-scene. He won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay as one of the writers of the 2004 film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind , a film he also directed.  Other films: The Science of Sleep (2006), Be Kind Rewind (2008), The Green Hornet (2011), The We and the I (2012), Mood Indigo (2013). Well known for music video collaborations with Daft Punk, Donald Fagen, Radiohead, Björk, Beck, The Chemical Brothers, Kylie Minogue, and The White Stripes.  Gondry's vision and career began with his emphasis on emotion.  His career as a filmmaker began with creating music videos for the French rock band Oui Oui , in which he was also a drummer. The style of his videos for Oui Oui  caught the attention of music artist  Björk, who asked him to direct the video for her song "Human Behaviour". The collaboration proved long-las...

History: 1958: Jack Warner founds Warner Bros. Records as a soundtrack factory for Warner Bros. movie studios. 1960: Warner Bros. gets its first No. 1 hit, Bob Newhart's Button Down Mind of Bob Newhart. Frank Sinatra founds Reprise Records and names Mo Ostin to lead it. 1963: Warner Bros. and Reprise merge. 1964: Jac Holzman sounds Nonesuch Records as a licensee of classical music. 1966: Seymour Stein and Richard Gotterher found Sire Productions, which is later renamed Sire Records. 1967: Seven Arts buys Warner Bros. Studios, renames itself Warner-Seven Arts acquires Atlantic Records. Seven Arts Records of Canada established. 1969: Steve Ross' Kinney National Co. acquires Warner Seven Arts. 1970: Elektra and Nonesuch become part of Kinney National. Kinney National becomes Warner Communications and forms Warner-Elektra-Atlantic (WEA Corp.), the first major music distribution company in the U.S., marking the origins of the Warner Music Group. 1971: Nesuhi Erte...