The Routledge history of social protest in popular music /
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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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.