To mark Soul Music's exploration of Songs of the Civil Rights Movement and Sam Cooke's A Change Is Gonna Come, BBC 6 Music's Craig Charles picks ten of his favourite pivotal protest songs.

These four tracks are some of the best underrated songs from the late 1970s, though some megafans would probably disagree ...

From The Vapors to The Buggles, many 1980s one-hit wonders were a product of their time and wouldn't have been as big in ...

The idea of grace-as-movement perfectly captures the essence of what we tried to achieve,” explains re-recording mixer Cyril ...

Music was used in songs about and for work as well as a form of protest and as a way of joining people together. In the Labor Movement, songs were, and are, used to unite people and to influence ...

An African American woman's voice, a child of Southwest Georgia, a voice raised in song, born in the struggle against racism in America during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s ...

He said he felt the need for a song that captured the energy of the protesters, so composed the marching-style tune. "In the Umbrella Movement [the 2014 protests] people sang pop songs and at the ...