Research Catalog

Title

Sonic politics : music and social movements in the Americas / edited by Olaf Kaltmeier and Wilfried Raussert.

Publication

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kaltmeier, Olaf, 1970-
• Raussert, Wilfried

Description

xi, 245 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

This volume analyses the narration of the social through music and the seismographic function of music to detect social problems and envision alternatives. Beyond state-driven attempts to link musical production to the official narrative of the nation, mass musical movements emerged during the 20th century that provided countercultural and alternative narratives of the prevailing social context. The Americas contain numerous examples of the strong connection between music and politics; Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land" envisioned a socialist transformation of the U.S., the Chilean Nueva Cancin created a narrative and affective frame for the recognition of popular culture as a central element of the cultural politics of the Chilean way to socialism, and Reggae emerged as a response to British colonialism, drawing inspiration and guidance from the pan-Africanist visions of Marcus Garvey. Providing a significant contribution to the study of music and politics/social movements from an inter-American perspective, this book will appeal to students and scholars of U.S. and Latin American Cultural Studies, Transnational Studies, History and Political Studies, Area Studies, and Music Studies.

Series Statement

InterAmerican Research: Contact, Communication, Conflict ; ASHSER-1426

Uniform Title

InterAmerican research.

Subjects

• Social movements
• Music > Political aspects
• Music > Social aspects
• Social movements > America > History
• Music > Political aspects > America > History
• America
• History
• Music > Social aspects > America > History

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction. Sonic politics : music and the narration of the social in the Americas from the 1960s to the present / Olaf Kaltmeier and Wilfried Raussert -- Singing resistance, rebellion, and revolution into being : collective political action and song / Helen Cordes and Eric Selbin -- African American music in the Americas : slavery, sounds, and forms of knowledge / Ulfried Reichardt -- Only a pawn in their game? : civil rights sounding signatures in the summer of 1963 / Frank Mehring -- Inter-public-agenda-setting effect through political activism : the role of hip hop music in the 2004 U.S. presidential election / María de los Ángeles Flores, Carol L. Adams-Means, and Maxwell E. McCombs -- Calling out around the world : how soul music transnationalized the African American freedom struggle in the black power era (1965-1975) / Matti Steinitz -- Si una vez : chicana sensibilities and xicanista soundscapes / Miriam Strube -- Hip hop in Ciudad Juarez : a form of political participation / María del Carmen de la Peza C -- The fandango sin fronteras movement and sonic migrations : performing community across borders / Wilfried Raussert -- The search for a new collective epic in Nicaragua's post-revolutionary music / Luis E. Duarte -- Rockin' for Pachamama : political struggle and the narration of history in Ecuadorian rock music / Olaf Kaltmeier -- Punk is dead. Or is it? Strategies of subcultural positioning in the (re-)making of the punk movement / Martin Butler -- Political pie-throwing : Dead Kennedys and the yippie-punk continuum / Michael Stewart Foley.

Call Number

JME 19-299

ISBN

• 9781138389397
• 1138389390
• 0429423934
• 9780429423932

LCCN

2019004454

OCLC

1084418382

Title

Sonic politics : music and social movements in the Americas / edited by Olaf Kaltmeier and Wilfried Raussert.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

InterAmerican Research: Contact, Communication, Conflict ; ASHSER-1426

InterAmerican research.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Kaltmeier, Olaf, 1970- editor.

Raussert, Wilfried, editor.

Other Form:

ebook version : 9780429753480

Research Call Number

JME 19-299