Music is Power : : Popular Songs, Social Justice, and the Will to Change / / Brad Schreiber.
Popular music has long been a powerful force for social change. Protest songs have served as anthems regarding war, racism, sexism, ecological destruction and so many other crucial issues. Music Is Power takes us on a guided tour through the past 100 years of politically-conscious music, from Pete S...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2019] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (252 p.) :; 5 color photographs, 13 B-W photographs |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Musical Workers of the World Unite: Joe Hill, Woody Guthrie, and Pete Seeger
- 2. There for More Than Fortune: Phil Ochs, Joan Baez, and Bob Dylan
- 3. Caged Artists: Lesley Gore, Janis Ian, and P. F. Sloan
- 4. Parody and Poetry: Tom Lehrer; Peter, Paul and Mary; and The Smothers Brothers
- 5. Psychedelicate Situations: Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd
- 6. Reason and Blues: Marvin Gaye and The Temptations
- 7. Say It Loud, We’re Blocked but Proud: James Brown and Curtis Mayfield
- 8. Hard Rock Turns Metallic: The Who and Black Sabbath
- 9. More Than a Working-Class Hero: John Lennon and The Beatles
- 10. Out of Place and In Your Face: The Dead Kennedys and The Sex Pistols
- 11. Word: Gil Scott-Heron and Grandmaster Flash
- 12. Global Music Consciousness: Bob Marley and Peter Gabriel
- 13. Weird, Funny, Smart, Angry: Frank Zappa versus Everyone
- 14. Rap, Not Hip-Hop: NWA and Public Enemy
- 15. Weapons of Mass Deconstruction: Dixie Chicks and Green Day
- Epilogue: Music Is Power
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author