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Songs of Social Protest (ePub eBook)


Songs of Social Protest (ePub eBook)

eBook by Dillane, Aileen/Power, Martin J./Devereux, Eoin;

Songs of Social Protest (ePub eBook)

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ISBN:
9781786601278
Publication Date:
30 Sep 2018
Publisher:
Rowman & Littlefield
Imprint:
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages:
682 pages
Format:
eBook
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Songs of Social Protest (ePub eBook)

Description

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:• Aesthetics• Authenticity• African American Music• Anti-capitalism• Community & Collective Movements• Counter-hegemonic Discourses • Critical Pedagogy• Folk Music• Identity• Memory• Performance• Popular 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.

Contents

Foreword: Dave Randall / Introduction: Stand Up, Sing Out: The Contemporary Relevance of Protest Song (Aileen Dillane, Martin J. Power, Amanda Haynes and Eoin Devereux) / Part I: Protest and the African-American Experience / Chapter 1: Social Protest and Resistance in African American Song: Traditions in Transformation (Robert W. Stephens and Mary Ellen Junda) / Chapter 2: You'll Never Hear Kumbaya the Same Way Again : The Diffusion and Defusion of a Freedom Song (Robbie Lieberman) / Chapter 3: Billie Holiday's Popular Front Songs of Protest (Jonathon Bakan) / Part II: Protest Genealogies / Chapter 4: Songs of Social Protest, Then and Now (William F. Danaher) / Chapter 5: Pete Seeger and the Politics of Participation (Rob Rosenthal) / Chapter 6: The Radicalisation of Phil Ochs, the Radicalisation of the Sixties (Anthony Ashbolt) / Chapter 7: Ewan McColl's Radio Ballads as Songs of Social Protest (Matthew Ord) / Chapter 8: 'Message Songs are A Drag': Bob Dylan Protesting Too Much? (Joseph O'Connor) / Part III: Transforming Traditions / Chapter 9: Expressions of Ma'ohi-ness in Contemporary Tahitian Popular Music (Geoffroy Colson) / Chapter 10: Casteism and Cultural Capital: Social and Spiritual Reform through Kabir-Singing in North India (Vivek Virani) / Chapter 11: Singing Against the Empire: Anti-structure and Anti-colonial Discourse in Nineteenth-century Irish Song (Triona Ni Shiochain) / Part IV: Freedom and Autonomy / Chapter 12: Organic Intellectuals : The Role of Protest Singers in the Overthrowing of the Portuguese Dictatorship, 1926-1974 (Isabel David) / Chapter 13: Singing Protest in Post-war Italy: Fabrizio De Andre's Songs Within the Context of Italian Canzone d'Autore (Riccardo Orlandi) / Chapter 14: The Trajectory of Protest Song from Dictatorship to Democracy and the Independence Movement in Catalonia: Lluis Llach and the Catalan Nova Canco (Nuria Borrull) / Chapter 15: Making the Everyday Political: The Case of Janapada Geyalu [Folk Songs] as Protest Songs in the Telangana State Formation Movement in India (Rahul Sambaraju) / Part V: Politics, Participation and Activism in the Field / Chapter 16: Freedom is a Constant Struggle : Performance and Regeneration Amidst Social Movement Decline (Omotayo Jolaosho) / Chapter 17: Cultural Production as a Political Act: Two Feminist Songs from Istanbul (Evrim Hikmet OEgut) / Chapter 18: Hip Hop as Civil Society: Activism and Escapism in Uganda's Hip Hop Scene (Simran Singh-Grewal) / Part VI: Semiotics, Mediation and Manipulation / Chapter 19: BOOM! Goes the Global Protest Movement: Heavy Metal, Protest, and the Televisual in System of a Down's Boom! Music Video (Clare Neil King) / Chapter 20: Pussy Riot: Performing Punkness, or Taking the Riot out of Riot Grrrl (Julianne Graper) / Chapter 21: Camp Fascism: The Tyranny of the Beat (Tiffany Naiman) / Chapter 22: Protest Songs, Social Media and the Exploitation of Syrian Children (Guilnard Moufarrej) / Part VII: Protesting Bodies and Embodiment / Chapter 23: Bread and Roses : A Song of Social Protest or Hollowed Out Resistance? (Gwen Moore) / Chapter 24: We Shall Overcome : Communal Participation and Entrainment in a Protest Song (Therese Smith) / Part VIII: Borderlands and Contested Spaces / Chapter 25: The Language We Use: Representations of Morrissey as a Figure of Protest in Queer Latino Los Angeles (Melissa Hidalgo) / Chapter 26: Rising from the Ashes of The Grove : The Efficacy and Aesthetics of Protest Songs Represented in Ry Cooder's Chavez Ravine (Donnacha M. Toomey) / Chapter 27: Mariem Hassan, Nubenegna Records and The Western Saharawi Struggle (Luis Giminez Amoros) / Part IX: Critiquing Capitalism and the Neoliberal Tide / Chapter 28: Against the Grain: Counter-Hegemonic Representations of Pre and Post 'Celtic-Tiger' Ireland in the 'Protest' Songs of Damien Dempsey (Aileen Dillane, Martin J. Power, Eoin Deverux and Amanda Haynes) / Chapter 29: Bail Out - From Now to Never - A Rhetorical Analysis of Two Songs About Economic Crisis (Michael Hajimichael) / Chapter 30: The Cacophony of Critique: New Model Army's Protest Against Neo-Liberal Critique (Tom Boland) / Part X: Ideology and the Performer / Chapter 31: Aesthetics of resistance : Billy Bragg, Ideology and the Longevity of Song as Social Protest (Martin J Power) / Chapter 32: Straight to Hell: The Clash and the Politics of Left Melancholia (Colin Coulter) / Chapter 33: The Truth Must Be Told So I'll Tell It: Social Protest and the Folk Song in the Music of Christy Moore (Kieran Cashell) / Discography/Filmography / Bibliography / Index

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