1. Australia's rebel heritage of poetry and song
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2016
   Ballads like the one published in Borough, London, by the famous printer HP Such, had been sold on the streets of the towns and cities from which convicts were transported to Australia from the First Fleet onwards. This street literature was hawked for less than a penny and was sung, or "chaunted" by the seller to a large audience, many of them poor. HP Such's ballad provides us with a sample of the early industrial working class' emotional and political understanding of the rising empire.
2. Bound for Glory
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1970
   The autobiography of folk singer Woody Guthrie.
3. Canadian Lies
   Resource Type: Audio
   Published: 2015
   A parody song aimed at Canada's Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
4. Connexions
   Volume 10, Number 1 - Spring 1986 - The Arts and Social Change
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1986
   
5. Harperman
   Resource Type: Audio
   Published: 2015
   Harperman is a song lampooning Canada's Conservative Prime Minister Stepehn Harper, written and performed by Ottawa scientist and folk singer Tony Turner. Singing the song got him suspended from his job as a habitat planning scientist with Environment Canada.
6. The ignorant, repressive attack on Frank Loesser's "Baby, It's Cold Outside"
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2018
   A look at Frank Loesser's 1944 song "Baby, It's Cold Outside" and the social forces which have aggressively pushed the new 'Puritanism' that seeks to have the song banned.
7. Kris Kristofferson lyrics
   Resource Type: Article
   
8. Little Boxes and other handmade songs
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1964
   The best songs I write turn out to be something like folks songs because these traditional pieces say things the way I want to say them and am impelled to say them; they mean to speak surely and quietly, almost as an aside or half-heard observation, with a way of sticking in the memory as though they had something to say that you didn't catch the first time.
9. Phil Ochs: There but for Fortune
   Resource Type: Film/Video
   Published: 2011
   A documentary film on the life and times of folk singer-songwriter Phil Ochs.
10. Socialist and Labor Songs
    An International Revolutionary Songbook
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2014
    Seventy-seven songs -- with words and sheet music -- of solidarity, revolt, humor, and revolution.
11. Take action: Help free imprisoned songwriter
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Freemuse, a free expression organisation for musicians and composers, is asking for your support to help dissident singer/songwriter Lapiro de Mbanga. He was imprisoned in 2008 and fined US$640,000 for writing a song critical of Cameroonian President

Experts on Songwriters in the Sources Directory

1. Open Music Archive