Songs of Social Protest: International Perspectives (Protest, Media and Culture)

Songs of Social Protest is a comprehensive companion guide to music and social protest globally. Bringing together 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, both in historical and contemporary times. Topics covered include:AestheticsAuthenticityAfrican American MusicAnti-capitalismCommunity & Collective MovementsCounter-hegemonic Discourses Critical PedagogyFolk MusicIdentityMemoryPerformancePopular CultureBy placing historical approaches alongside cutting-edge ethnography, philosophical excursions alongside socio-political and economic perspectives, and cultural context alongside detailed, musicological, textual, and performance analysis, Songs of Social Protest offers a dynamic resource for scholars and students exploring song and singing as a form of protest. 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. 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 Kumbayanotes; 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 Edited By Aileen Dillane, Martin J. 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