Blog: State Magazine

From Billie Holiday to Green Day , protest pop has had a long, nebulous history. Too long and nebulous, you might think, to be adequately addressed in a single-volume book, but tackling just such a mammoth task, Dorian Lynskey has written 33 Revolutions Per Minute: A History Of Protest Songs , a "weighty tome" which takes in Woody Guthrie, Country Joe and The Fish, Gil Scott-Heron, Bob Dylan, R.E.M., Public Enemy and many others over the course of its 33 fascinating chapters. It is an extraordinary piece of work; insightful, sensitively handled and [...]