Songs of Social Protest: International Perspectives (Protest, Media and Culture)

Songs of Social Protest is a comprehensive companion guide to music and social protest globally. Bringing together 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, both in historical and contemporary times. Topics covered include:



Aesthetics

Authenticity

African American Music

Anti-capitalism

Community & Collective Movements

Counter-hegemonic Discourses

Critical Pedagogy

Folk Music

Identity

Memory

Performance

Popular Culture





By placing historical approaches alongside cutting-edge ethnography, philosophical excursions alongside socio-political and economic perspectives, and cultural context alongside detailed, musicological, textual, and performance analysis, Songs of Social Protest offers a dynamic resource for scholars and students exploring song and singing as a form of protest.<\/P>"