Research Catalog

Title

Songs of social protest : international perspectives / edited by Aileen Dillane, Martin J. Power, Eoin Devereux, and Amanda Haynes.

Publication

London ; New York : Rowman & Littlefield International, [2018]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Dillane, Aileen
• Power, Martin J.
• Devereux, Eoin
• Haynes, Amanda

Description

x, 672 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

Songs of Social Protest is a comprehensive, cutting-edge companion guide to music and social protest globally. Bringing together established and emerging scholars from a range of fields, it explores a wide range of examples of, and contexts for, songs and their performance that have been deployed as part of local, regional and global social protest movements.

Series Statement

Protest, media and culture

Uniform Title

Protest, media and culture.

Subjects

• Music > Political aspects
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Protest songs > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 571-649), discography/filmography (pages 561-569) and index.

Contents

• Cover; Songs of Social Protest; Series page; Songs of Social Protest: International Perspectives; Copyright page; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Protest and the African American Experience; Chapter 1; Social Protest and Resistance in African American Song; The Oral Tradition; Language; Georgia Sea Island Singers; From Jim Crow to the Civil Rights Movement; Conclusions; Notes; Chapter 2; "You'll Never Hear Kumbaya the Same Way Again"; Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel?; Come By Hyar; Which Side Are You On?; Singing Their Freedom; The Kumbaya Law; Black Liberation Then and Now
• Taking Back "the real Kumbaya"Notes; Chapter 3; Billie Holiday's Popular Front Songs of Protest; "Strange Fruit," Café Society and the Left; "High Art" From Below; "Strange Fruit" for Billie Holiday; God Bless the Child; Race, Class, and the Musician as Organic Intellectual; Conclusion; Notes; Protest Genealogies; Chapter 4; Songs of Social Protest, Then and Now; Sociology and Music; Songs and Protest; Charismatic Leaders and the Transformation of Folk Songs; Social Movements; Popular Music as Protest Music; Conclusion; Note; Chapter 5; Pete Seeger and the Politics of Participation
• The Road to a Constructionist ApproachRethinking "Political Music"; Audience Participation as Democratic Practice; Theorizing Audience Participation; Adorno Redux; Notes; Chapter 6; The Radicalisation of Phil Ochs, the Radicalisation of the Sixties; The Birth of a Radical; Reform, Resistance, Revolution; Radical Reform and Civil Rights; Student Power and Resistance; Goodbye to All That Liberalism; The Ringing of Revolution; Conclusion; Chapter 7; Ewan MacColl's Radio Ballads as Songs of Social Protest; Ewan MacColl: from dramatist to songwriter; The Radio Ballad concept
• John Axon and the poetry of everyday speechWork and identity; Tape editing and heteroglossia; Against pop culture: On the Edge (1963); Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 8; 'Message Songs are a Drag'; Notes; Transforming Traditions; Chapter 9; Expressions of Māʻohi-ness in Contemporary Tahitian Popular Music; Expressions of Political and Social Protest in Tahiti; The Māʻohi Cultural Identity; The Tahitian Musical Landscape; Henri Hiro and his Intellectual Descendants; Orality; ʻAparima, Literature and Traditional Arts; Bobby Holcomb; Aldo Raveino; The Emergence of a new Generation of Musicians
• NotesChapter 10; Casteism and Cultural Capital; Religious Songs as Social Songs; Songs of Mysticism; Songs of Devotion; Devotion as Obedience; Spiritual Autonomy; Moral Transformation as Societal Transformation; Dietary Abstinence and "Sanskritization"; Purity as Resistance; The Reformation of a Criminal Caste; Rediscovering "Roots"; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 11; Singing Against the Empire; Licentiousness, Power and Possibility: Understanding the Anti-structure of Song; Máire Bhuí Ní Laeire (Yellow Mary O'Leary) and Singing Anti-colonial Discourse in Nineteenth-century Ireland

Call Number

JME 19-232

ISBN

• 9781786601254
• 1786601257
• 9781786601261
• 1786601265

LCCN

2018001448

OCLC

1020295330

Title

Songs of social protest : international perspectives / edited by Aileen Dillane, Martin J. Power, Eoin Devereux, and Amanda Haynes.

Publisher

London ; New York : Rowman & Littlefield International, [2018]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Protest, media and culture

Protest, media and culture.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 571-649), discography/filmography (pages 561-569) and index.

Added Author

Dillane, Aileen, editor.

Power, Martin J., editor.

Devereux, Eoin, editor.

Haynes, Amanda, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Songs of social protest. London ; New York : Rowman & Littlefield International, [2018] 9781786601278 (DLC) 2018002293

Research Call Number

JME 19-232