Summary Protest songs are taking place alongside chants of "I can't breathe" and "Hands up, don't shoot".
BERKELEY (AP) Protest songs are taking their place alongside chants of "I can t breathe" and "Hands up, don t shoot" as demonstrators raise their voices to condemn the deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of police.
The killings of Eric Garner and Michael Brown have inspired a musical outpouring perhaps unseen in the U.S. since Pete Seeger helped make "We Shall Overcome" a civil-rights standard in the 1960s. Older songs are being redeployed for a new generation. New compositions are being widely shared. And holiday classics are being rewritten, such as a barbed spin on "White Christmas."
Several professionals have released home-produced tribute songs to Brown and Garner, including Alicia Keys, Long Beach rapper Crooked I and Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morelo.
