Would you say that our society has more politicaly charged art and music created by liberals or conservatives?

What kind and how much of an influence does it leave on one side or the other?

What is your favorite politically charged work of art or music?

This can include a large range of things like political images or music videos.

I’ll start with a few and I’ll probably add more later:

Just to let you know, this female singer has no filter on her voice… yes… it’s really that deep and scary. She’s great in concert too. The video was designed to look like a protest sign come to life. The music is heavier than the average listener too I’m sure.
Otep- Warhead

Rage Against The Machine - Testify

Eminem-mosh

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Though I cannot explain why, I believe there are more liberally driven works of music in American society. I’m not basing this off of any facts just observation.

I also think there is less politically driven music today than 20 or 40 years ago. If this is a cultural change that has caused the decline in political music, I’m not sure what caused it. It seems more likely however that it is a corporation change that has caused the decline. Does political music not sell well? Is that why there is less of it today?

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What exactly do you mean with "political music"?

I guess he means music with a poltical statement or statements about society. Songs that are about something else than how to cope with the current love affair or the end of it or about umbrellas or how much money and girls the singer has... etc

Yes exactly. I’m talking about music that was meant to be politically advocating. Sorry if that wasn’t clear.

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I would agree with this. Protest music has historically come from the left, politically. And I believe that protest type music is in reaction to what is considered "hard times" or war or a government run rampant.

Music from the right seems to be in response to the left or else what is determined to be an attack on country. The songs that speak of Mother, God, home and apple pie and God Bless the USA came out after 9/11 and stand united with country and government, whereas the left's music seems more opposed to government.

Just my thoughts.

I think its different here at least as far as I know it about Austrian music. I also know some Bavarian artists who produced very political songs.

Many of them are a consquence out of the experience of the total war, or the ignorance of people or xenophoby.

A very common theme is also showing in either a sarcastic or sublime way where people normally are the hypocrites or the bad sides of our society.

The good thing I think is that most of those singers give a damn about party politics or the current political agenda. Those songs are normally timeless and hardly loose their message even though the decades pass by.

For example this song of the Bavarian song maker Konstantin Wecker:

Vaterland (Fatherland)

...and his son dreams of law and order, and powerful straight steps, and in his imagination he hears them already walking and in his imagination he already walks with them... and the father thinks about the past, and hears the cruel boots marching, and in the imagination he still can hear them, and tomorrow it could happen again...

Sage Nein! (Say no)

Ignore the communist underlining of the video, I could not find a better one, but the sound is authentic.
Its a song not only against nazis, sexists, homophobes etc, but its in first line a song for civil courage.

A more contemporary song (of my favorite band, its cult nothing less), its principally like the song above about civil courage, but it does not say at all, what political view you should follow, just that you should not shy away from also demonstrating for it.
Es ist nicht deine Schuld (Its nor your fault)

I tend to dislike today's "political" music. I don't really have a problem with the majority of musical artists today being intransigently (and often obnoxiously) liberal, but it bothers me when they try to mix their political ideologies in with their music.

I lose a lot of respect when a band of otherwise talented musicians cranks out a CD's worth of puerile, leftist (or rightist) propaganda. Unless something serious happens in the political universe, bands should concentrate on music, not politics.

I love the sound of the German language in song. It always sounds so powerful.

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I disagree.
Musicians are artists, as such its their very right to be as political (or not) as they like. Art has to be free.

No one is forced to hear political music he does not agree with.