The resisting muse : popular music and social protest / edited by Ian Peddie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Peddie, Ian.

Series:

Ashgate popular and folk music series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular music--Social aspects.

Popular music.

Popular music--Political aspects.

Protest songs--History and criticism.

Protest songs.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 228 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2006]

Contents:

Rock protest songs : so many and so few / Deena Weinstein

The decline and rebirth of folk-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

The future is history : hip-hop in the aftermath of (post)modernity / Russell A. Potter

Everyday people : popular music, race and the articulation and formation of class identity in the United States / James Smethurst

Gender as anomaly : women in rap / Gail Hilson Woldu

Protest music as 'ego-enhancement' : reggae music, the Rastafarian movement and the re-examination of race and identity in Jamaica / 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

Communities of resistance : heavy metal as a reinvention of social technology / Sean K. Kelly

The handmade tale : cassette-tapes, authorship, and the privatization of the Pacific Northwest independent music scene / Kathleen McConnell

Gothic music and the decadent individual / Kimberly Jackson

Straight, narrow and dull : the failure of protest in straight edge rock'n'roll / Steven Hamelman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [206]-221) and index.

Includes discography (pages [222]-225).

ISBN:

0754651134

0754651142

OCLC:

60245569