I feel like most people don't realize the words in songs are more than just noises you make along to the music, and actually form coherent thoughts...
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“Why aren’t my preferred musicians feeding me mindless entertainment that doesn’t affect my echo chamber?”
Now I wonder how far back can we find examples of political musicians... probably as far back as Mesopotamia, I'd guess.
It probably depends on your definition of political and musician. A lot of cultures had storytellers that would recite religious or historical stories in a poetic or musical way. There are also quite old accounts of war cries or chants. There's also evidence to suggest that music was used in certain religious practices going quite far back. I don't know that most of those things would count the way that we would count a modern protest song, but I wouldn't be surprised if there were a lot of political musical examples that we just don't have historical evidence for.
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