acoustic adult band 363905For much of American history, music has demonstrated a consistent power to unify movements and effect change.

But is that still true?

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The earliest music of the civil rights movement, recounts David Walls, overlaid new words onto familiar hymns, making those songs easily learned and remembered.

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