Playing for Change
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activist musicianship
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Almanac Singers
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Author_Rob Rosenthal
Boll Weevil
carawan
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Charlie King
CIO
Country Music
Defensive Community
Demarcation Line
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Fa Fa Fa
Fast Lane
Folk Music
forever
Freedom Day
guy
Guy Carawan
hill
HUAC
joe
Joe Hill
Lead Belly
Leon Rosselson
music and collective identity
music-driven political mobilisation
P2P Networks
Performer's Content
Performer’s Content
Political Music
political song reception
Pop Star
power
protest music analysis
qualitative case studies
singers
SNCC Freedom Singer
SNCC Organizer
social movement theory
solidarity
Street Fighting Man
Violates
white
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781594517884
- Weight: 566g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Nov 2010
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Although music is known to be part of the great social movements that have rocked the world, its specific contribution to political struggle has rarely been closely analyzed. Is it truly the 'lifeblood' of movements, as some have declared, or merely the entertainment between the speeches? Drawing on interviews, case studies and musical and lyrical analysis, Rosenthal and Flacks offer a brilliant analysis and a wide-ranging look at the use of music in movements, in the US and elsewhere, over the past hundred years. From their interviews, the voices of Pete Seeger, Ani DiFranco, Tom Morello, Holly Near, and many others enliven this highly readable book.
Robert Rosenthal is Professor of Sociology at Wesleyan University. He has written widely on the use of music in social movements. Richard Flacks is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at University of California–Santa Barbara. He is the author of Making History: The American Left and the American Mind and Beyond the Barricades.
