ABSTRACT
The major objective of this collection of 28 essays is to analyze the trends, musical formats, and rhetorical devices used in popular music to illuminate the human condition. By comparing and contrasting musical offerings in a number of countries and in different contexts from the 19th century until today, The Routledge History of Social Protest in Popular Music aims to be a probing introduction to the history of social protest music, ideal for popular music studies and history and sociology of music courses.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |120 pages
Historical Beginnings, War, and Civil Rights
chapter |12 pages
God, Garrison, and the Ground
The Hutchinson Family Singers and the Origins of Commercial Protest Music
chapter |13 pages
Jewish Voices of Protest on Broadway
From The Eternal Road to The Cradle Will Rock and Beyond
part |106 pages
Contemporary Social Protest in Rock Music
chapter |19 pages
The Music's Not All That Matters, After All
British Progressive Rock as Social Criticism
part |173 pages
International Protest
chapter |16 pages
“We Need More than Love”
Three Generations of North American Indigenous Protest Singers
chapter |15 pages
Telling the Truth and Commenting Reality
“Harsh Criticism” in Guinea-Bissau's Intervention Music
