Contributor
Dillane, Aileen, editor.
Edition Statement:Paperback edition.
ImprintLondon ; New York : Rowman & Littlefield International, 2020.
Imprint2018
Descriptionx, 672 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Note:Foreword: what's going on? and what is to be done? / Dave Randall -- Introduction: Stand Up, Sing Out: The Contemporary Relevance of Protest Song / Aileen Dillane, Martin J. Power, Eoin Devereux and Amanda Haynes -- Part I. Protest and the African-American Experience -- Social Protest and Resistance in African American Song: Traditions in Transformation / Robert W. Stephens and Mary Ellen Junda -- "You'll Never Hear Kumbaya the Same Way Again": The Diffusion and Defusion of a Freedom Song / Robbie Lieberman -- Billie Holiday's Popular Front Songs of Protest / Jonathon Bakan --Part II. Protest Genealogies -- Songs of Social Protest, Then and Now / William Danaher -- Pete Seeger and the Politics of Participation / Rob Rosenthal -- The Radicalisation of Phil Ochs and the Radicalisation of the Sixties / Anthony Ashbolt -- Ewan McColl's Radio Ballads as Songs of Social Protest / Matthew Ord -- 'Message Songs are A Drag": Bob Dylan, Protesting Too Much? / Joseph O'Connor -- Part III. Transforming Traditions -- Expressions of Ma'ohi-ness in Contemporary Tahitian Popular Music / Geoffroy Colson -- Casteism and Cultural Capital: Social and Spiritual Reform through Kabir-Singing in North India / Vivek Virani -- Singing Against the Empire: Anti-structure and Anti-colonial Discourse in Nineteenth-century Irish Song / Tríona Ní Shíocháin -- Part IV. Freedom and Autonomy -- "Organic Intellectuals": The Role of Protest Singers in the Overthrowing of the Portuguese Dictatorship (1926-1974) / Isabel David -- Singing Protest in Post-war Italy: Fabrizio De André's Songs Within the Context of Italian Canzone d'Autore / Riccardo Orlandi -- The Trajectory of Protest Song from Dictatorship to Democracy and the Independence Movement in Catalonia: Lluís Llach and the Catalan Nova Cancó / Núria Borrull -- Making the Everyday Political: The Case of Janapada Geyalu (folk songs) as Protest Songs in the Telangana State Formation Movement, India / Rahul Sambaraju -- Part V. Politics, Participation and Activism in the Field -- "Freedom is a Constant Struggle": Performance and Regeneration Amidst Social Movement Decline / Omotayo Jolaosho -- Cultural Production as a Political Act: Two Feminist Songs from Istanbul / Evrim Hikmet Ögüt -- Hip Hop as Civil Society: Activism and Escapism in Uganda's Hip Hop Scene / Simran Singh-Grewal -- Part VI. Semiotics, Mediation, and Manipulation -- BOOM! Goes the Global Protest Movement: Heavy Metal, Protest, and the Televisual in System of a Down's "Boom!" Music Video / Neil King -- Pussy Riot: Performing "Punkness," or Taking the "Riot" out of "Riot Grrrl" / Julianne Graper -- Camp Fascism: The Tyranny of the Beat / Tiffany Naiman -- Protest Songs, Social Media, and the Exploitation of Syrian Children / Guilnard Moufarrej -- Part VII. Protesting Bodies and Embodiment -- "Bread and Roses": a Song of Social Protest or Hollowed out Resistance? / Gwen Moore -- "We Shall Overcome": Communal Participation and Entrainment in a Social Protest Song / Thérèse Smith -- Part VIII. Borderlands and Contested Spaces -- The Language We Use: Representations of Morrissey as a Figure of Protest in Queer Latino Los Angeles / Melissa Hidalgo -- Rising from the Ashes of "The Grove": The Efficacy and Aesthetics of Protest Songs Represented in Ry Cooder's Chávez Ravine / Donnacha M. Toomey -- Mariem Hassan, Nubenegna Records and The Western Saharawi Struggle / Luis Giminez -- Part IX. Critiquing Capitalism and the Neoliberal Tide -- 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 -- Bail Out- From Now to Never- A Rhetorical Analysis of Two Songs About Economic Crisis / Michael Hajimichael -- The Cacophony of Critique: New Model Army's Protest Against Neo-Liberal Critique / Tom Boland -- Part X. Ideology and the Performer -- "Aesthetics of resistance": Billy Bragg, Ideology, and the Longevity of Song as Social Protest / Martin Power -- Straight to Hell: The Clash, Left Melancholia and the Politics of Redemption / Colin Coulter -- The Truth Must Be Told so I'll Tell It: Social Protest and the Folk Song in the Music of Christy Moore / Kieran Cashell.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 571-649) and index.
Note:Songs of Social Protest is a comprehensive, cutting-edge companion guide to music and social protest globally. Bringing together established and emerging 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.
