• Anthologies

  • Robert Anderson The Poetical Works of Robert Anderson 2 vols Carlisle 1820
  • Max Arthur (ed.) When This Bloody War Is Over: Soldiers' Songs of the First World War London: Piatkus 2001
  • Mary Ashraf (ed.) Political Verse and Song from Britain and Ireland London: Lawrence Wishart 1975
  • Samuel Bamford Homely Rhymes, Poems, and Reminiscences 2nd edn London 1864
  • James Basker (ed.) Amazing Grace: An Anthology of Poems About Slavery, 1660–1810 New Haven: Yale University Press 2005
  • Kevin Binfield (ed.) Writings of the Luddites Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press 2004
  • Edward Carpenter (ed.) Chants of Labour: A Song Book of the People with Music London 1888
  • Edward Corvan et al. A Choice Collection of Tyneside Songs Newcastle 1863
  • Karl Dallas (ed.) The Cruel Wars: 100 Soldiers' Songs from Agincourt to Ulster London: Wolfe 1972
  • John Freeth The Political Songster 6th edn Birmingham 1790
  • Alexander Grosart (ed.) English Jacobite Ballads, Songs, & Satires Printed Privately 1877
  • John Harland (ed.) Ballads and Songs of Lancashire London 1865
  • James Hepburn (ed.) A Book of Scattered Leaves: Poetry of Poverty in Broadside Ballads of Nineteenth-Century England 2 vols Lewisburg PA: Bucknell University Press 2000/2001
  • Dick Holdstock (ed.) Again With One Voice: British Songs of Political Reform, 1768–1868 Windsor CT: Loomis House 2021
  • Eckhard John and Dave Robb Songs for a Revolution: The 1848 Protest Song Tradition in Germany Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer 2021
  • Josh MacPhee An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels New York: Common Notions 2019
  • Joseph Mather The Songs of Joseph Mather Sheffield 1862
  • James Montgomery The Poetical Works of James Montgomery, Collected by Himself London 1841
  • Alison Morgan (ed.) Ballads and Songs of Peterloo Manchester: Manchester University Press 2018
  • Roy Palmer (ed.) The Rambling Soldier 2nd edn Gloucester: Sutton 1985
  • Roy Palmer (ed.) A Touch on the Times: Songs of Social Change, 1770–1914 Harmondsworth: Penguin Education 1974
  • Roy Palmer (ed.) A Ballad History of England: From 1588 to the Present Day London: Batsford 1979
  • Hardeep Phull Story Behind the Protest Song: A Reference Guide to the 50 Songs That Changed the 20th Century Westport CT: Greenwood 2008
  • Michael Scrivener (ed.) Poetry and Reform: Periodical Verse from the English Democratic Press, 1792–1824 Detroit: Wayne State University Press 1992
  • Claude M. Simpson (ed.) The British Broadside Ballad and its Music New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press 1966
  • Thomas Spence Spence's Songs London 1807/1812
  • Robert Thompson A Tribute to Liberty: Or New Collection of Patriotic Songs, Entirely Original London 1793
  • Thomas Thompson et al. A Collection of Songs, Comic, Satirical, and Descriptive Newcastle 1827
  • Marcus Wood (ed.) The Poetry of Slavery: An Anglo-American Anthology, 1764–1865 Oxford: Oxford University Press 2003

• Monographs

  • Mark W. Booth The Experience of Songs New Haven: Yale University Press 1981
  • Kate Bowan and Paul A. Pickering Sounds of Liberty: Music, Radicalism and Reform in the Anglophone World, 1790–1914 Manchester: Manchester University Press 2017
  • Oskar Cox Jensen Napoleon and British Song, 1797–1822 Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2015
  • Nick Crossley Networks of Sound, Style and Subversion Manchester: Manchester University Press 2015
  • Robert Darnton Poetry and the Police: Communication Networks in Eighteenth-Century Paris Cambridge MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2010
  • R. Serge Denisoff Great Day Coming: Folk Music and the American Left Chicago: University of Illinois Press 1971
  • Robin Denselow When the Music's Over: The Story of Political Pop London: Faber & Faber 1989
  • Ron Eyerman and Andrew Jamison Music and Social Movements: Mobilizing Traditions in the Twentieth Century Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1998
  • Simon Frith Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Music Oxford: Oxford University Press 1996
  • Robin Ganev Songs of Protest, Songs of Love: Popular Ballads in Eighteenth-Century Britain Manchester: Manchester University Press 2009
  • James Garratt Music and Politics: A Critical Introduction Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2019
  • Ian Goodyer Crisis Music: The Cultural Politics of Rock Against Racism Manchester: Manchester University Press 2009
  • Dave Harker One for the Money: Politics and Popular Song London: Hutchinson 1980
  • John Horden John Freeth (1731–1808): Political Ballad-Writer and Innkeeper Oxford: Leopard's Head 1993
  • Kate Horgan The Politics of Songs in Eighteenth-Century Britain, 1723–1795 London: Routledge 2014
  • Michael Kenny The Politics of English Nationhood Oxford: Oxford University Press 2014
  • Dorian Lynskey 33 Revolutions Per Minute: A History of Protest Songs London: Faber & Faber 2010
  • Noriko Manabe The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Protest Music After Fukushima Oxford: Oxford University Press 2016
  • Christopher Marsh Music and Society in Early Modern England Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2010
  • Dario Martinelli Give Peace a Chant: Popular Music, Politics and Social Protest Cham: Springer 2017
  • Angela McShane Political Broadside Ballads of Seventeenth-Century England: A Critical Bibliography London: Routledge 2011
  • Ingrid Monson Freedom Sounds: Civil Rights Call Out to Jazz and Africa Oxford: Oxford University Press 2010
  • Katrina Navickas Protest and the Politics of Space and Place, 1789–1848 Manchester: Manchester University Press 2016
  • Keith Negus Popular Music in Theory: An Introduction Cambridge: Polity 1996
  • Jonathan Pielsak Radicalism & Music: An Introduction to the Music Cultures of Al-Qa'ida, Racist Skinheads, Christian-Affiliated Radicals, and Eco-Animal Rights Militants Middletown CT: Wesleyan University Press 2015
  • Murray Pittock Poetry and Jacobite Politics in Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1994
  • Stefan Putigny Song Cultures and National Identities in Eighteenth-Century Britain, c.1707–c.1800 London: King's College London, PhD Thesis 2011
  • Dave Randall Sound System: The Political Power of Music London: Pluto 2017
  • Simon Rennie The Poetry of Ernest Jones: Myth, Song, and the 'Mighty Mind' New York: Legenda 2016
  • Rob Rosenthal and Richard Flacks Playing for Change: Music and Musicians in the Service of Social Movements Boulder: Paradigm 2012
  • William Roy Reds, Whites, and Blues: Social Movements, Folk Music, and Race in the United States Princeton: Princeton University Press 2010
  • Johanna Siméant and Christophe Traïni Bodies in Protest: Hunger Strikes and Angry Music Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press 2016
  • Bruce R. Smith The Acoustic World of Early Modern England: Attending to the O-Factor Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1999
  • David Spener We Shall Not Be Moved/No Nos Moverãn: Biography of a Song of Struggle Philadelphia: Temple University Press 2016
  • John Street Music and Politics Cambridge: Polity 2012
  • Brodie Waddell God, Duty and Community in English Economic Life, 1660–1720 Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer 2012
  • Brian Ward Just My Soul Responding: Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness and Race Relations London: UCL Press 1998
  • David Wilkinson Post-Punk, Politics and Pleasure in Britain Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2016
  • Justin Williams Brithop: The Politics of UK Rap in the New Century Oxford: Oxford University Press 2020
  • Andy Wood Riot, Rebellion and Popular Politics in Early Modern England Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2001
  • Marcus Wood Slavery, Empathy, and Pornography Oxford: Oxford University Press 2002
  • Matthew Worley No Future: Punk, Politics and British Youth Culture, 1976–1984 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2017

• Collections

  • Stephanie Carter, Kirsten Gibson and Roz Southey (eds) Music in North-East England, 1500–1800 Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer 2020
  • Rachel Cowgill and Peter Holman (eds) Music in the British Provinces, 1690–1914 Aldershot: Ashgate 2008
  • R. Serge Denisoff and Richard Peterson (eds) The Sounds of Social Change Chicago: Rand McNally 1972
  • Aileen Dillane et al. (eds) Songs of Social Protest: International Perspectives London: Rowman & Littlefield 2018
  • Daniel Fischlin and Ajay Heble (eds) Rebel Musics: Human Rights, Resistant Sounds, and the Politics of Music Making London: Black Rose 2003
  • Patricia Fumerton (ed.) Living English Broadside Ballads, 1550–1750: Song, Art, Dance, Culture Huntington Library Quarterly vol. 79, no. 2 2016 : 163–342
  • Paula Guerra and Elizabeth Turner (eds) People Have The Power Cidades, Comunidades e Territórios vol. 42, no. 3 2021
  • Éva Guillorel, David Hopkin, and William G. Pooley (eds) Rhythms of Revolt: European Traditions and Memories of Social Conflict in Oral Culture Abingdon: Routledge 2018
  • Knut Holtsträter and Michael Fischer (eds) Musik und Protest – Music and Protest Lied und populäre Kultur / Song and Popular Culture vol. 60/61 2015/2016 : 11–364
  • David Kennerley and Oskar Cox Jensen (eds) Music and Politics in Britain, c.1780–1850 Journal of British Studies vol. 60, no. 2 2021 : 362–429
  • Beate Kutschke and Barley Norton (eds) Music and Protest in 1968 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2013
  • Noriko Manabe and Eric Drott (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Protest Music Oxford Handbooks Online Oxford: Oxford University Press TBC
  • Ian Peddie (ed.) The Resisting Muse: Political Music and Social Protest Aldershot: Ashgate 2006
  • Mark Pedelty and Kristine Weglarz (eds) Political Rock Burlington, VT: Ashgate 2013
  • Ron Sakolsky and Fred Wei-Han Ho (eds) Sounding Off! Music as Subversion/Resistance/Revolution New York: Autonomedia 1995

• Articles

  • Katie Barclay Sounds of Sedition: Music and Emotion in Ireland, 1780–1845 Cultural History vol. 3 2014 : 54–80
  • Anthony Bennett Broadsides on the Trial of Queen Caroline: A Glimpse at Popular Song in 1820 Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association vol. 107 1980/1981 : 71–85
  • Todd A. Borlik and Clare Egan Angling for the 'Powte': A Jacobean Environmental Protest Poem English Literary Renaissance vol. 48 2018 : 256–89
  • Sean Campbell 'Agitate, Educate, Organise': Partisanship, Popular Music and the Northern Ireland Conflict Popular Music vol. 39 2020 : 233–56
  • Michael T. Davis 'An Evening of Pleasure Rather than Business': Songs, Subversion and Radical Sub-Culture in the 1790s Journal for the Study of British Cultures vol. 12 2005 : 115–26
  • Phil Eva Home Sweet Home? The 'Culture of Exile' in Mid-Victorian Popular Song Popular Music vol. 16 1997 : 131–50
  • Anna Feigenbaum 'Now I'm a Happy Dyke': Creating Collective Identity and Queer Communication in Greenham Women's Songs Journal of Popular Music Studies vol. 22 2010 : 367–88
  • Alan Finlayson Proving, Pleasing and Persuading? Rhetoric in Contemporary British Politics Political Quarterly vol. 85 2014 : 428–36
  • Alan Finlayson Rethinking Political Communication Political Quarterly vol. 90 2019 : 77–91
  • Louise Haynes From Vietnam to Iraq: A Content Analysis of Protest Music Studies in Humanities and Culture vol. 10 2008 : 247–61
  • Alun Howkins and C. Ian Dyck 'The Time's Alteration': Popular Ballads, Rural Radicalism and William Cobbett History Workshop Journal vol. 23 1987 : 20–38
  • David Martin Jones and M. L. R. Smith Blowin' in the Wind? The Musical Response to the War on Terror Studies in Conflict & Terrorism 2021
  • David Kennerley Strikes and Singing Classes: Chartist Culture, 'Rational Recreation' and the Politics of Music after 1842 English Historical Review vol. 135 2020 : 1165–94
  • Elizabeth Kizer Protest Songs as Rhetoric Popular Music and Society vol. 9 1983 : 3–11
  • Stephen Kosokoff and Carl Carmichael The Rhetoric of Protest: Song, Speech, and Attitude Change Southern Speech Journal vol. 35 1970 : 295–302
  • Jennifer Lena and Richard Peterson Politically Purposed Music Genres American Behavioral Scientist vol. 55 2011 : 574–88
  • Kirsty Lohman and Matthew Worley Bloody Revolutions, Fascist Dreams, Anarchy and Peace: Crass, Rondos and the Politics of Punk, 1977–84 Britain and the World vol. 11 2018 : 51–74
  • Rachel Lumsden 'The Music Between Us': Ethel Smyth, Emmeline Pankhurst, and 'Possession' Feminist Studies vol. 41 2015 : 335–70
  • Graham Macklin 'Onward Blackshirts!' Music and the British Union of Fascists Patterns of Prejudice vol. 47 2013 : 430–57
  • Noriko Manabe 'We Gon' Be Alright?': The Ambiguities of Kendrick Lamar's Protest Anthem Music Theory Online vol. 25 2019
  • Sophie Mayer The Size of a Song: Pussy Riot and the (People) Power of Poetry Soundings vol. 54 2013 : 147–58
  • George McKay A Soundtrack to the Insurrection: Street Music, Marching Bands and Popular Protest Parallax vol. 13 2007 : 20–31
  • Angela McShane Political Street Songs and Singers in Seventeenth-Century England Renaissance Studies vol. 33 2019 : 94–118
  • Alison Morgan 'God Save Our Queen!' Percy Bysshe Shelley and Radical Appropriations of the British National Anthem Romanticism vol. 20 2014 : 60–72
  • John Mullen What Can Political Rock Do? A Discussion Based on the Example of the Tom Robinson Band, 1976–1979 Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique vol. 22, no. 3 2017
  • Richard Parfitt 'Rise and Follow Charlie': Rebel Songs and Establishment Politicians in the Republic of Ireland, 1969–1998 Irish Political Studies vol. 34 2018 : 400–19
  • Mike Sanders 'God Is Our Guide! Our Cause is Just!' The National Chartist Hymn Book and Victorian Hymnody Victorian Studies vol. 54 2012 : 679–805
  • Ryan Schaffer The Soundtrack of Neo-Fascism: Youth and Music in the National Front Patterns of Prejudice vol. 47 2013 : 458–82
  • Marcello Sorce Keller Why Is Music So Ideological, And Why Do Totalitarian States Take It So Seriously? A Personal View from History and the Social Sciences Journal of Musicological Research vol. 26 2007 : 91–122
  • John Street Music as Political Communication Oxford Handbooks Online Oxford: Oxford University Press 2017
  • Martha Vandrei 'Britons, Strike Home': Politics, Patriotism and Popular Song in British Culture, c.1695–1900 Historical Research vol. 87 2014 : 679–702
  • Lyndon C. S. Way Protest Music, Populism, Politics and Authenticity: The Limits and Potential of Popular Music's Articulation of Subversive Politics Journal of Language and Politics vol. 14 2016 : 422–45