@Bi: cries, songs. No, woman, no cry! --- To be honest literally I had in mind Janis Joplin, whose songs are really cries. One song is “Cry baby” but it is true that it is about crying as “weeping” than crying as “calling out”. I admit, spontaneous mental association are not necessarily very precise.

I also thought of Bob Dylan with “The times there are a changin’” “Hurricane”, “Blowing in the wind”, “A hard rain’s a gonna fall”.

There is also that militant music, assumed as such. (See)(Hear) Bob Marley, “The redemption song” or “The strange fruit” of Billie Holiday.

So it’s all about the “cries” for social justice or for environmental protection as expressed by music.

There is pathos in political speeches of people in power, including this one, which is less credible than the pathos expressed by art.

I found that other people have grouped songs under such categories.

https://www.humanrightscareers.com/issues/social-justice-songs/

https://www.nature.org/en-us/what-we-do/our-priorities/tackle-climate-change/climate-change-stories/climate-change-songs/ Source author: Petru Dumitriu <PetruD@diplomacy.edu>