Resounding Revolution
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I'm Gonna Sit at the Welcome Table
I'm on My Way to Freedom Land
Musical Coalition Politics
Nina Simone
Sonic Blackness
Warren County
We Shall Overcome
Why
Product details
- ISBN 9780252088704
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 13 May 2025
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Far from being bounded by the timeframe of the 1960s, freedom song continues to evolve as a tool both of historical memory and of present activism. Stephen Stacks looks at how post-1968 freedom song helps us negotiate our present relationship to the era while at the same time sustaining the contemporary struggle inspired by it.
Stacks’s analysis shifts the focus of attention from genre--freedom song--to process and practice--freedom singing. As he shows, freedom singing after 1968 generates multilayered meanings. It can reinforce, or resist, consensus memories or dominant narratives. Stacks illuminates freedom singing’s diversity by examining it in three contexts: performance, protest, and within documentary sound recording/film.
Insightful and vividly detailed, The Resounding Revolution examines sixty years of Black music to challenge and reshape the entrenched story of the Civil Rights Movement.
Stephen Stacks is an assistant professor of music at North Carolina Central University.
