“Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!”
Bob Marley was one of many artists expressing his political views through his music. His ‘Legend’ album (as with a lot of the reggae genre) preached anti capitalism. However the sale of 10 million albums slightly contradicts his anti capitalist ideas! Although it may have been inspiring to individuals it never did create a political change.
The music on it’s own simply doesn’t seem enough.
Live Aid is an example of popular music achieving political change, raising over 150 million for Africa. However it was a combination of huge publicity, worldwide footage and some of the biggest names in popular music for this to happen. A song on its own is not enough to achieve a political change.
A Reasonable summary.
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