Pete Seeger could be called the King of the Protest Song, in the words of folk musician Tony Trischka.

VOA: special.2009.07.27

That is all I know." Here is Billie Holiday singing a popular song of the Nineteen thirties, "More Than You Know."

VOA: special.2010.02.28

In ancient times,however, people believed that the swan was given a special gift of song at the end of its life.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

He was also among the many singers who recorded a special new version of the song "We Are the World."

VOA: special.2010.02.26

Brown said that song was one of the most important things he ever did in the way of changing music rhythms.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

Yet for all his influence, millions of Americans today remember him for just one song, which children learn in school.

VOA: special.2009.07.27

The series includes digitally improved versions of every song the British band released between nineteen sixty-three and seventy.

VOA: special.2009.09.18

It was named Song of the Year at the Austin Music Awards, the closing event of the South by Southwest Music conference.

VOA: special.2010.04.02

The name of that song is "Dang Me." It was written and recorded by Roger Miller in nineteen-sixty-five.

VOA: special.2010.10.03

The song was about injustice and oppression of black people in the southern part of the United States.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

In nineteen thirty-four, John Lomax became honorary consultant and curator of the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress.

VOA: special.2010.01.18

Sixty years later, President Obama awarded the British musician the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for American Song.

VOA: special.2010.06.18

The Lomaxes went to Washington to examine the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress.

VOA: special.2010.01.18

You can tell all kinds of stories in a song, and put your ideas across to another person."

VOA: special.2010.06.13