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Panizza Allmark, Professor of Visual & Cultural Studies, Edith Cowan University

From ‘this machine kills fascists’ to ‘King Trump’s private army’: the art of protest music

Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune and Michael Ochs Archives, via Getty

In January, over the course of three days, Bruce Springsteen wrote, recorded and released the political protest song Streets of Minneapolis.

The song’s release was a matter of urgency and reflects Springsteen’s fury towards the Minneapolis immigration enforcement operation from the United States Department of Homeland Security with around 2,000 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers and agents.

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