Songs of Social Protest

International Perspectives
Herausgeber: Dillane, Aileen; Devereux, Eoin; Power, Martin J.

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Produktbeschreibung

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 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 684
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 44mm
• Gewicht: 1245g
• ISBN-13: 9781786601254
• ISBN-10: 1786601257
• Artikelnr.: 51146185

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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 (Tríona Ní Shíocháin) / 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 André'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: Lluís Llach and the Catalan
Nova Cançó (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 Ögüt) / 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 (Thérèse 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 Chávez 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