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33 revolutions per minute : a history of protest songs, from Billie Holiday to Green Day / Dorian Lynskey.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3780 .L97 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lynskey, Dorian.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Protest songs--20th century--History and criticism.
- Protest songs.
- Protest songs--21st century--History and criticism.
- Musicians--Political activity.
- Musicians.
- Popular music--20th century--Political aspects.
- Popular music.
- Popular music--21st century--Political aspects.
- Popular music--20th century--Social aspects.
- Popular music--21st century--Social aspects.
- Social aspects.
- Political participation.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 660 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Thirty-three revolutions per minute
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Ecco, [2011]
- Summary:
- A history of protest music embodied in 33 songs since the 1930s.
- Contents:
- 1939-1964. Billie Holiday, "Strange fruit" ; Woody Guthrie, "This land is your land" ; Zilphia Horton, Frank Hamilton, Guy Carawan, and Pete Seeger, "We shall overcome" ; Bob Dylan, "Masters of war" ; Nina Simone, "Mississippi Goddam"
- 1965-1973. Country Joe and the Fish, "I-feel-like-I'm-fixin'-to-die-rag" ; James Brown, "Say it loud, I'm Black and I'm proud" ; Plastic Ono Band, "Give peace a chance" ; Edwin Starr, "War" ; Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, "Ohio" ; Gil Scott-Heron, "The revolution will not be televised" ; Stevie Wonder, " Living for the city"
- 1973-1977 (Chile, Nigeria, Jamaica). Victor Jara, "Manifiesto" ; Fela Kuti and Afrika 70, "Zombie" ; Max Romeo and the Upsetters, "War ina Babylon"
- 1977-1987. The Clash, "White riot" ; Carl Bean, "I was born this way" ; Linton Kwesi Johnson, "Sonny's lettah (Anti-Sus poem)" ; The Dead Kennedys, "Holiday in Cambodia" ; Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five feat. Melle Mel and Duke Bootee, "The message" ; Crass, "How does it feel?" ; Frankie Goes to Hollywood, "Two tribes" ; U2, "Pride (In the name of love)" ; The Special AKA, "Nelson Mandela" ; Billie Bragg, "Between the wars" ; R.E.M., "Exhuming McCarthy"
- 1989-2008. Public Enemy, "Fight the power" ; Huggy Bear, "Her jazz" ; The Prodigy feat. Pop Will Eat Itself, "Their law" ; Manic Street Preachers, "Of walking abortion" ; Rage Against the Machine, "Sleep now in the fire" ; Steve Earle, "John Walker's blues" ; Green Day, "American Idiot"
- Appendices. Protest songs before 1900 ; Songs and albums mentioned in the text ; One hundred recommended songs.
- Notes:
- Includes bibligraphical references (pages 573-636) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780061670152
- 0061670154
- OCLC:
- 641532418
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