The Routledge History of Social Protest in Popular Music [Paperback]

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 nineteenth century until today, TheRoutledge History of Social Protest in Popular Musicaims to be a probing introduction to the history of social protest music, ideal for popular music studies and history and sociology of music courses.

INTRODUCTION
PART ONEHISTORICAL BEGINNINGS
1.  The Nature and Impact of Musical Protest, Allan Moore
2.  Negro Spirituals of the 19th Century, Burton Peretti
3.  The First American Social Protest Musical Group:  The Hutchinson Family Singers, Scott Gac
4. Folk Music, Labor, Class, and Protest in the United States, 1900-1950, Jerry Rodnitsky
5.  Race, Gender, and Protest:  African American Music, 1900-1970, Felicia Miyakawa,
PART TWOWAR AND CIVIL RIGHTS
6. War and Musical Protest, Robert Kodosky
7. Atomic Music, Rob Weiner
8. Civil Rights Anthems and Soul Music,Jerry Smethurst,
9. Beatles Utopia, Walter Everett
PART THREECONTEMPORARY SOCIAL PROTEST IN ROCK
10. Societal Visions in Progressive Rock, Carla Hochhauser
11. The Punk Revolution?, Travis Jackson
12. From the Grateful Dead to Frank Zappa:  Radical Protest in Rock, Rob Weiner
13.  Gender and Social Protest in Contemporary Rock,  Marion Leonard
14. Women, Rap, and Hip-Hop, Gail Hilson Woldu,
15. Politics, War, and the Protest Song in the Era of Bono, Reebee Garofalo
PART FOURINTERNATIONAL PROTEST
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