Music and Social Movements - Mobilizing Traditions in the Twentieth Century

Klappentext This highly readable book is among the first to link social movement and cultural theory. Building on previous studies! the authors examine the mobilization of cultural traditions and the formation of new collective identities through the music of activism. Specific chapters examine American folk and country music! black music! music of the sixties! and the transfer of the American experience to Europe. Zusammenfassung In their groundbreaking new study of the music of activism! Ron Eyerman and Andrew Jamison examine the mobilization of cultural traditions and the formation of collective identities through music and song. Chapters consider folk and country music! black music! and music of sixties social movements. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. On social movements and culture; 2. Taking traditions seriously; 3. Making an alternative popular culture: from populism to the popular front; 4. The movements of black music: from the New Negro to civil rights; 5. Politics and music in the 1960s; 6. From the sixties to the nineties: the case of Sweden; 7. Structures of feeling and cognitive praxis.

Product details

• Authors: Ron Eyerman, Ron Jamison Eyerman, Andrew Jamison
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.1998
• EAN: 9780521629669
• ISBN: 978-0-521-62966-9
• No. of pages: 204
• Dimensions: 1501 mm x 230 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Cambridge Cultural Social Studies; Cambridge Cultural Social Stud; Cambridge Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)