Results for “economic inequality”

Songs

Minutemen

A terse, two-minute sketch that moves from a blunt political indictment of poverty and inherited injustice to a single, almost…

economic inequality inherited injustice the US-Mexico border region

The Band

A narrator in a fading, mob-shadowed Atlantic City weighs a desperate financial choice against a fragile romantic vow, using…

economic desperation moral compromise decay and renewal

Aretha Franklin

Aretha Franklin's 1967 reworking of Otis Redding's song turns a man's plea for domestic deference into a woman's non-negotiable…

demanding respect sexual and economic bargaining power gender and domestic power

Creedence Clearwater Revival

CCR's version of this traditional folk-blues song reworks a prison-labor lament into swampy rock, keeping the old imagery of…

incarceration and forced labor longing for deliverance folk mythology / superstition