Creative Activism - Conversations on Music, Film, Literature, and Other Radical Arts

This collection brings together interviews with a compelling range of musicians, artists, and activists from around the globe. What does it mean for an artist to be "political"? Moving away from a narrow idea about politics that is organized around elections, advocacy groups, or concrete manifestos, the subjects of Creative Activism do their work through song, poetry, painting, and other arts. The interviews take us from Oakland to London to Johannesburg and from the Occupy movement to the coal mines of Appalachia to the fantasy worlds created by some of our most fascinating writers of spectacular fiction. Listening to the important "cultural workers" of our time challenges any idea that some other time was the golden age of political art: Creative Activism gives us a front-row seat to the thrilling artistic activism of our own moment.>

About the author

Rachel Rubin is Professor of American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA where she directs the Center for the Study of Humanities, Culture, and Society. She has authored and edited numerous books on American popular culture including Well Met: Renaissance Faires and the American Counterculture (NYU Press), American Identities: An Introductory Textbook (Blackwell), and American Popular Music: New Approaches to the Twentieth Century (University of Massachusetts Press). She is a regular commentator on public radio and frequently quoted as a popular culture expert in the mainstream media.

Product details

• Authors: Rachel Lee Rubin, Rachel Lee (University of Massachusetts Bos Rubin, Rachel Lee (University of Massachusetts Boston Rubin, RUBIN RACHEL LEE
• Assisted by: Rachel Lee Rubin (Editor), Rachel Lee (University of Massachusetts Boston Rubin (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9781501337215
• ISBN: 978-1-5013-3721-5
• No. of pages: 360
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; Music, MUSIC / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, Political activism, Political activism / Political engagement