Using Art for Social Change

Musicians have long been known to create songs that rally activists and provoke public awareness. We'll explore how other art forms can be used in to do the same. We'll meet the editor of a new book that collects poems about war and peace. Patricia Frisella is president of the Poetry Society of New Hampshire. Her new anthology is called The Other side of Sorrow: Poets Speak Out about Conflict War and Peace.

Later in the show, we'll talk with sociologist James Jasper. He's editor of Contexts Magazine, a publication of the American Sociological Association, which just released a list of the essential American protest songs from the last 100 years.