We Shall Not Be Moved/No nos moverán : Biography of a Song of Struggle / David Spener.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spener, David, 1961- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

We shall not be moved.

Protest songs--Spain--History and criticism.

Protest songs.

Protest songs--United States--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (198 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Temple University Press 2016

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

We Shall Not Be Moved: The Trail Blazed by a Song from the U.S. South to Spain and South America details the history of "We Shall Not Be Moved" from its birth as a slave spiritual in the U.S. South and its subsequent adoption as a standard hymn by the U.S. labor, civil rights, and farmworker movements, to its singing in the student movement opposing the Franco dictatorship in Spain in the 1960s, and finally to its arrival in the South American country of Chile during its experiment with democratic socialism in the early 1970s. The book outlines the role the song has played in each of the movements in which it has been sung and analyzes its dissemination, function, and meaning through a number of different sociological and anthropological lenses. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.

Contents:

A song, socialism, and the 1973 military coup in Chile

"I shall not be moved" in the U.S. South : blacks and whites, slavery and spirituals

From worship to work : a spiritual is adopted by the U.S. labor movement and the left

From union song to freedom song : civil rights activists sing an old tune for a new cause

From English in the U.S. South to Spanish in the U.S. Southwest : "We shall not be moved" becomes "No nos moverâan"

Across the Atlantic to Spain

Social movement : a song's journey across time and space

Translation and transcendence in the travels of a song

Conclusion : an internationalist culture of the singing left in the twentieth century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-189) and index.

CC BY

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781439912997

1439912998

OCLC:

945454188

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access