ISBN:
9780521620451
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (206 p)
Series Statement:
Cambridge Cultural Social Studies
Parallel Title:
Print version Music and Social Movements : Mobilizing Traditions in the Twentieth Century
DDC:
306.484
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Social movements literature meets cultural theory in study of music and song of activism
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 On social movements and culture; Social movements and cultural transformation; Political movements or cultural movements?; Sociology and culture; The cultural turn in social movement theory; Culture as cognitive praxis; 2 Taking traditions seriously; What is tradition?; The dialectic of tradition; The role of ritual; Where do traditions come from?; Social movements and the mobilization of traditions; Music and cultural change; 3 Making an alternative popular culture: from populism to the popular front
Description / Table of Contents:
Music and social movements in the United StatesThe populist heritage; Twentieth-century populisms: country music and the Wobblies; Between movements: Lomax and Sandburg; The songs of the popular front; The Movement personified: Guthrie, Seeger, Lomax; From the thirties to the nineties; 4 The movements of black music: from the New Negro to civil rights; The secular and the sacred: blues and gospel; The New Negro movement; Between movements: bebop and gospel; The mobilization of music in the civil rights movement; From civil rights to rap; 5 Politics and music in the 1960s; Contextual factors
Description / Table of Contents:
Music in movementThe folk revival as a social movement; The dialectic of Dylan and Ochs; The appropriation of the blues: Janis and Jimi; Conclusions; 6 From the sixties to the nineties: the case of Sweden; What was the Swedish music movement?; The Swedish context; The sources of the movement; The demise of the movement; Conclusions; 7 Structures of feeling and cognitive praxis; Structures of feeling and cultural transformation; Dimensions of cognitive praxis; Music and social movements; Notes; 3 Making an alternative popular culture: from populism to the popular front
Description / Table of Contents:
4 The movements of black music: from the New Negro to civil rights5 Politics and music in the 1960s; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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