The resisting muse
Subtitle: popular music and social protest
By: edited by Ian Peddie.
Contributors: Peddie, Ian.
Series: Ashgate popular and folk music series
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
Subjects: Popular music -- Social aspects; Popular music -- Political aspects; Protest songs -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Politics and the parameters of protest. Rock protest songs : so many and so few / Deena Weinstein ; The decline and rebirth of protest music / Jerry Rodnitsky ; Available rebels and folk authenticities : Michelle Shocked and Billy Bragg / Mark Willhardt ; The pop star as politician : from Belafonte to Bono, from creativity to conscience / John Street; title: Monophony or polyphony? The future is history : hip-hop in the aftermath of (post) modernity / Russell Potter ; Everyday people : popular music, race, and the articulation and formation of class identity / James Smethurst ; Gender as anomaly : women in rap / Gail Woldu; title: The problems of place. The coherence of protest music? : international reggae music and the Rastafarian Movement (1972-1981) / Stephen A. King ; 'We have survived' : popular music as representation of Australian aboriginal cultural loss and reclamation / Peter Dunbar-Hall ; The bleak country? : the black country and the rhetoric of escape / Ian Peddie; title: The paradox of anti-social protest. A garage of one's own : heavy metal as a reinvention of social technology / Sean Kelly ; The hand-made tale : authorship, privatization, and cassette-tape culture in the Pacific Northwest independent music scene / Kathleen McConnell; title: Gothic music and the decadent individual / Kimberly Jackson; title: Alternative protest : straight-edge and other failings in the post-punk repertoire / Steven Hamelman.