ISBN:
0816637717
,
0816637709
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xxiii, 362 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Art of Protest : Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Streets of Seattle
DDC:
303.484
Keywords:
Radicalism in literature
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Radicalism Songs and music History and criticism
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Social movements in art
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Social movements in literature
;
Radicalism
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Protest movements
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Radicalism in art
;
Protest movements ; United States
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Radicalism ; Songs and music ; History and criticism
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Radicalism ; United States
;
Radicalism in art
;
Radicalism in literature
;
Social movements in art
;
Social movements in literature
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
The first overview of social movements and the cultural forms that helped shape them, The Art of Protest shows the importance of these movements to American culture. In comparative accounts of movements beginning with the African American civil rights movement through the Internet-driven movement for global justice, T. V. Reed enriches our understanding of protest and its cultural expression
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; ONE: Singing Civil Rights: The Freedom Song Tradition; TWO: Scenarios for Revolution: The Drama of the Black Panthers; THREE: The Poetical Is the Political: Feminist Poetry and the Poetics of Women's Rights; FOUR: Revolutionary Walls: Chicano/a Murals, Chicano/a Movements; FIVE: Old Cowboys, New Indians: Hollywood Frames the American Indian Movement; SIX: ""We Are [Not] the World"": Famine, Apartheid, and the Politics of Rock Music; SEVEN: ACTing UP against AIDS: The (Very) Graphic Arts in a Moment of Crisis
Description / Table of Contents:
EIGHT: Environmental Justice Ecocriticism: Race, Class, Gender, and Literary EcologiesNINE: Will the Revolution Be Cybercast? New Media, the Battle of Seattle, and Global Justice; TEN: Reflections on the Cultural Study of Social Movements; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-343) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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