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Bob Dylan, Odetta and Joan Baez weren\u2019t the first to use music as a way to demand social justice.<\/p>\n<p>There were protest songs during the Civil War, in the Labor Movement of the early 1900s, during the Depression and racial lynchings of the 1930s, through McCarthyism and nuclear weapon proliferation of the 1950s.<\/p>\n<p>And they\u2019re still be written and performed today.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the UTC\u00a0Women&#8217;s Chorale and Men&#8217;s Chorus are offering a concert of music around the theme of Social Justice. Set for 7:30 p.m. in the Roland Hayes Concert Hall, the performance is free and will include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Songs by Pete Seeger, Simon and Garfunkel, Andre Thomas, Irving Berlin and others.<\/li>\n<li>A musical setting of the 1896 poem &#8220;We Wear the Mask&#8221; by the African-American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. It has been arranged for women&#8217;s voices, cello and piano and the music was\u00a0composed by Jonathan McNair, UC Foundation professor in the department of Music.<\/li>\n<li>A\u00a0traditional\u00a0Iraqi song for peace, accompanied by percussion.<\/li>\n<li>Combined women&#8217;s and men&#8217;s voices in works by Mendelssohn and others.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Musical direction is by Professors Alison Allerton and Perry Ward from the Department of Performing Arts. 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