Political arts are about raising awareness of issues, ideas and responses to society. Picasso’s 1937 painting Guernica showing the tragedy of bombing civilians during the Spanish Civil War has become an iconic anti-war artpiece. Visual and performance art is often in the form of protest against a government, a system, an act of war, on stage, in song or on film.

People hear Edwin Starr’s Motown song, ‘War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing.... only friend is the undertaker’, and know it's a political, antiwar pop song. Other classics include Universal Soldier, by Buffy Sainte-Marie (1964), Eve of Destruction (1965) and It’s Good News Week by Hedgehoppers Anonymous (Jonathan King, 1965) about nuclear holocaust.

Political music is not confined to pop. Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich came into conflict with the Soviet authorities who demanded music to glorify the state, propaganda. His Symphony No. 7 (The Leningrad) in 1941 was rebellion, non-verbal music seen as a denunciation of Stalin’s totalitarian regime.

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