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- ISBN 9781786601261
- Weight: 898g
- Dimensions: 153 x 227mm
- Publication Date: 28 Feb 2020
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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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 Culture
By 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.
Aileen Dillane is a Lecturer in Music at the Irish World Academy, University of Limerick, Ireland.
Martin J. Power is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Limerick, Ireland.
Eoin Devereux is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Limerick, Ireland.
Amanda Haynes is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Limerick, Ireland.
