Songs on specific topics
Many chapters in Rise Up Singing and Rise Again are organized by topic or subject matter (e.g. "Freedom", "Earthcare", "Peace", or "Work"). Others are organized by song genre (e.g. "Blues", "Jazz and Swing").
At the end of each chapter you can find a list of songs in other chapters on the same subject or topic.
Here is a list a webpages that will help you find songs on a particular subject.
Songs relating to social justice:
- Climate & earthcare
- Immigration
- LGBTQ+
- Labor (on working people's lives & the unions that empower them)
- Native/Indigenous (under construction - songs by Native artists + ones on Indigenous issues)
- Peace
- Racial justice (including U.S. Freedom Movement and South African anti-apartheid movement, Black Lives Matter, etc.)
- Rich & Poor (on wealth, poverty & economic justice)
- Struggle
- Women
Other topical lists:
- Hope
- Healing (comforting songs for facing transitions including aging, illness, and death)
- Harvest & autumn
- Love songs