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The Routledge history of social protest in popular music

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The Routledge History of Social Protest in Popular Music provides a sweeping overview of social protest music in diverse collection of twenty eight essays that analyse the trends, musical formats, and rhetorical divides that have been used in popular music to illuminate the human condition.

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Routledge
Language
English
Pages
412

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Table of Contents

Part I : Historical beginnings, war, and civil right --
What is social protest music? : one historian's perspective -- Jonathan Friedman
Signifying freedom : protest in nineteenth-century African-American music -- Burton Peretti
God, garrison, and the ground : the Hutchinson Family Singers and the origins of commercial protest music -- Scott Gac
Solidarity forever : music and the labor movement in the United States -- Benjamin Bierman
Sonic opposition : protesting racial violence before civil rights -- Katherine Turner -- Jewish voices of protest on Broadway : from The eternal road to The cradle will rock and beyond / -- Jonathan Friedman
Musical mêlée : twentieth-century America's contested wartime soundtrack -- Robert Kodosky
Bob Dylan : an american tragedian -- Kile Jones
A screaming comes across the dial : country, folk, and atomic protest music -- Rob Weiner and John Cline
A soul message : R & B, soul, and the black freedom struggle -- James Smethurst
Part II : Contemporary social protest in rock music --
The music's not all that matters, after all : British progressive rock as social criticism -- Edward Macan
Radical protest in rock : Zappa, Lennon, and Garcia -- Jacqueline Edmondson and Rob Weiner
Falling into fancy fragments : punk, protest and politics -- Travis Jackson
Women, rap, and hip-hop : the challenge of image -- Gail Hilson Woldu
I predict a riot : Riot Grrls and the contradiction of feminism -- Shayna Maskell
Anger is a gift : post-Cold War rock and the anti-capitalist movement -- David Robinson
Concerts for a cause (or 'cause we can?) -- H. Louise Davis
Part III : International protest --
What every revolution should know : a musical model of global protest -- Ingrid Bianca Byerly
Revolutionary words : reggae's evolution from protest to mainstream -- Stephen A. King and P. Renee Foster
"We need more than love" : three generations of North American indigenous protest singers -- Elyse Carten Vosen
European pop music and the notion of protest -- Anna Piotrowska
Flowers made of lead : paths, times, and emotions of protest music in Brazil -- Ricardo Santhiago
Songs for freedom : music and the struggle against apartheid -- Mark Malisa
"Sorrow, tears, and blood" : Fela Anikulapo Kuti and protest in Nigeria -- Saheed Aderinto
Telling the truth and commenting reality : "harsh criticism" in Guinea-Bissau's intervention music -- Anne-Kristin Borszik
Deglamorizing protest : the politics of "song and dance" in popular Indian cinema -- Prakash Kona
Protesting colonial Australia : convict theatre and Kelly ballads -- Stephen Gaunson
Ambushed from all sides : rock music as a force for a change in China -- Dennis Rea
Conclusion : a hermeneutics of protest -- Allan Moore.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Series
Routledge histories, Routledge histories
Copyright Date
2013

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
781.64/1592
Library of Congress
ML3918.P67 R68 2013, ML3918.P67R68 2013, ML3918.P67R68 2016, ML3918.P67.R68 2013

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvii, 412 pages
Number of pages
412

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27790812M
Internet Archive
routledgehistory0000unse
ISBN 10
0415509521, 1136447296, 1138216224
ISBN 13
9780415509527, 9781138216228, 9780203124888, 9781136447235, 9781136447297, 9781136447242, 9781136447266, 9781136447280
LCCN
2012046125
OCLC/WorldCat
792877267, 852758591

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