I found the article Music and Movement: The Tradition Continues very powerful that gives a strong idea of how music was used as a key and also a weapon during the early 1940s through 1960s to fight for equality, beliefs and express feelings such indignity, sadness and oppression.  It is really interesting how the article talks about music and it was used in favor of those who wanted their voices hard but in a different way.  Probably in a way that people would pay more attention to it as the message is being delivered, which still happens now a days. Singers/rappers or any other artist that belongs to the music environment still uses music as a way of sharing with people their message.  The article itself gives numerous examples of both singers and songs that were used at that time in order to deliver a message to other people.  In the article songs like “Solidary Forever, There is Power in the Union, and The Preacher and Slave” were songs that were used in 1900s in movements such as strikes, picket lines, and rallies by industrial Workers of the world to spread their message.  Interesting how even now a day’s people still use these actions in order for their voices to be heard.  In the article it is also mentioned how music was integrated into the civil rights movement and it mentioned some of the songs such as “Oh Freedom, Keep Your Hand on the Pillow, and I Shall Not Be Moved” that were used in order to raise hopes and lift morale for people that were going through periods of intense struggle.  Also along with the civil rights movement came the freedom song which besides the performance of African Americans it also had performances of white artists.  A new generation of folk troubadours in the early sixties came out to link their music and the social struggles for social justice.  In the future much more movements were linked to the civil rights and most of them had the aspect of involving music to help spreads the message.  Until today movements or just a single individual tend to use music in they favor in order to spread the message and make sure their message is heard.  That shows how much power music has either on people’s lives and the societies in general.