THE ROUTLEDGE HISTORY OF SOCIAL PROTEST IN POPULAR MUSIC

• Other Authors: Friedman, Jonathan C. (Editor)
• Format: Manuscript Book
• Language: English
• Published: NEW YORK Routledge 2017
• Edition: English : First paperback edition
• Subjects: Folks music; Protest songs; Pop music; Popular music > Political aspects; Popular music > Social aspects; Protest movements
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The major objective of this collection of twenty-eight essays is to analyze the trends, musical formats, and rhetorical devices used in popular music to illuminate the human condition. By comparing and contrasting musical offerings in a number of countries and in different contexts from the nineteen...

Table of Contents:

• INTRODUCTION PART ONE-HISTORICAL BEGINNINGS1. "The Nature and Impact of Musical Protest," Allan Moore2. "Negro Spirituals of the 19th Century," Burton Peretti3. "The First American Social Protest Musical Group: The Hutchinson Family Singers," Scott Gac4. "Folk Music, Labor, Class, and Protest in the United States, 1900-1950," Jerry Rodnitsky5. "Race, Gender, and Protest: African American Music, 1900-1970," Felicia Miyakawa, PART TWO-WAR AND CIVIL RIGHTS6. "War and Musical Protest," Robert Kodosky7. "Atomic Music," Rob Weiner 8. "Civil Rights Anthems and Soul Music,"Jerry Smethurst, 9. "Beatles Utopia," Walter EverettPART THREE-CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL PROTEST IN ROCK 10. "Societal Visions in Progressive Rock," Carla Hochhauser11. "The Punk Revolution?," Travis Jackson12. "From the Grateful Dead to Frank Zappa: Radical Protest in Rock," Rob Weiner 13. "Gender and Social Protest in Contemporary Rock," Marion Leonard14. "Women, Rap, and Hip-Hop," Gail Hilson Woldu, 15. "Politics, War, and the Protest Song in the Era of Bono," Reebee GarofaloPART FOUR-INTERNATIONAL PROTEST16. "Reggae's Evolution from Protest to Mainstream," Stephen A. King17. "Protest Music, Identity Politics, and Latin Pop," T. M. Scruggs18. "Intervention Music in Gineau-Bissau in the 1990s," Anne-Kristin Borszik, 19. "Music Indaba in Late Apartheid South Africa," Ingrid Bianca Byerly 20. "Anti-Apartheid Music and the African National Congress," Shirli Gilbert21. "Music of Protest from Palestine," David MacDonald22. "Contemporary Protest Music in Asia," Dennis ReaCONCLUSION