Noun
protest song (plural protest songs)
A song that is associated with a movement for social change.
A protest song is a song that's so specific that you cannot mistake it for bullshit. Phil Ochs
In the '60s, when I was growing up, one of the great elements of American culture was the protest song. There were songs about the civil rights movement, the women's rights movement, the antiwar movement. It wasn't just Bob Dylan, it was everybody at the time. George Clooney
The nice thing about a protest song is that it takes the complaint, the fussing, the finger-pointing, and gives it an added component of sociable harmony. Nicholson Baker