The art of protest
Subtitle: culture and activism from the civil rights movement to the streets of Seattle
By: T. V. Reed.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 362
Subjects: Radicalism -- United States.; Protest movements -- United States.; Social movements in art.; Social movements in literature.; Radicalism in art.; Radicalism in literature.; Radicalism -- Songs and music -- History and criticism.
Description: From the freedom songs of the Civil Rights Movement to the anarchically creative tactics deployed by anti-WTO protestors at the "Battle in Seattle," Reed (American studies, Washington State U.) examines the cultural expression of protest of social movements in the United States. Believing dramatic actions, "repeated public displays" in the words of social movement theorist Charles Tilly, to be an essential facet of social movements in general he analyzes the cultural elements and cultural.

Impact the above-mentioned movements, as well as the dramatic displays of the Black Panthers, the poetry of the Women's Rights Movement, Chicano movements and the revolutionary mural, the American Indian Movement in film, rock music approaches to African famine and apartheid, the graphic arts of ACT UP, and the discourse of environmentalism. Annotation 2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Singing civil rights : the freedom song tradition; title: Scenarios for revolution : the drama of the Black Panthers; title: The poetical is the political : feminist poetry and the poetics of women's rights; title: Revolutionary walls : Chicano/a murals, Chicano/a movements; title: Old cowboys, new Indians : Hollywood frames the American Indian movement; title: "We are [not] the world" : famine, apartheid, and the politics of rock music; title: Acting up against AIDS : the (very) graphic arts in a postmodern epidemic; title: Environmental justice ecocriticism : race, class, gender, and literary ecologies; title: Will the revolution be cybercast? : new media, the battle of Seattle, and global justice; title: Reflections on the cultural study of social movements.