Where have all the protest songs gone?

"Why don't young people write protest songs any more? It's not like the 1960s when we cared about the world and weren't glued to a screen."

You might have heard this argument. Protest songs are usually thought to have disappeared or at the very least dwindled in their power and influence. But is that true?

A careful examination reveals a quite different story, of an art form that not only never  went away but evolved into something less visible to many but still vibrant and compelling.

Join me on a quest to discover whatever happened to the protest song.