"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.